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    Ice Chasers return

    2008-08-28T12:36:00Z

    The ''Ice Chaser'' survey team on board the James Clark Ross returned last week from its exploration of the Arctic''s sea ice with news on the environment, a hot topic since some forecasts have predicted an ice free Arctic summer within the next ten years.

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    Turkish ro-ro sinks in Marmara Sea

    2008-08-18T12:36:00Z

    At least one person drowned and four are still missing after a ro-ro ferry carrying about 150 people and 75 vehicles sank late on Sunday night in the Marmara Sea.

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    Sinking Ice Maiden leaves gap

    2008-08-14T12:36:00Z

    A& P Tyne is out hunting for a ''substantial'' piece of work to fill the gap left by the sinking of Scottish C& M Group, and with it the Ice Maiden I contract.

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    Ceasefire 'removes' threat to ships in Georgian waters

    2008-08-14T12:36:00Z

    The Joint Negotiating Group (JNG) has rejected a demand from the International Transport Workers'' Federation (ITF), made this week, that the ports and Black Sea coastal waters of Georgia should be declared an area of warlike operations under Article 17 of the International Bargaining Forum (IBF) Framework Agreement.

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    Short sea offered 'a break with tradition'

    2008-08-14T12:36:00Z

    An ''invitation to break with maritime tradition'' is being offered in the form of a pilot study by Dutch firms Wagenborg Shipping, Flinter Management and Amasus Shipping.

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    Latvian SWATHs get engine change

    2008-08-08T12:36:00Z

    The new SWATH patrol boats being built by Germany''s Abeking & Rasmussen for the Latvian Coast Guard will boast MAN propulsion rather than the MTU engine technology of earlier 25m vessels.

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    Underwater noise is news in Southampton

    2008-08-07T12:36:00Z

    The marine environment is subject to both natural ambient noise and man made noise from sources such as shipping, offshore oil and gas platforms, renewable energy generators, seismic surveys, piling, sonar, fisheries and marine aggregate extraction.

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    MiniB promote safe routine maintenance at Seawork

    2008-08-07T12:36:00Z

    MiniB stormed Seawork with their ever popular ready to dive pack this year, taking a large number of orders at the show.

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    Heads up in fast water

    2008-08-07T12:36:00Z

    A new large-size buoy with a twin keel hull design that has already won orders across the world, has recently found a special niche in waters closer to home.

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    Small vessel engine failure study launched at Seawork

    2008-08-07T12:36:00Z

    In response to the reported concern of the British Government''s Department of Transport (DoT) about the growing number of small vessel engine failures at sea in recent years, and the resulting increased burden on the public services, the Small Ship Group of the Institute of Marine Engineers, Scientists and Technologists ...

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    Rocking the cradle on the Seawork pontoon

    2008-08-07T12:36:00Z

    Featuring on the floating pontoon at Seawork 2008, the ''Geo Explorer'' is nearly new 16.4m, 5.2m beamed fast survey vessel, built by No Limit Ships and fitted out by Datamine in the Netherlands.

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    Seawork coat saves double jeopardy pilot

    2008-08-07T12:36:00Z

    SeaSafe Systems launched a new anti-static coat range at Seawork 2008, suitable for anyone that works in hazardous and potentially explosive areas in the marine industry.

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    Gecko go ballistic at Seawork

    2008-08-07T12:36:00Z

    Cornish company, Gecko Headgear Ltd took advantage of Seawork 2008 to preview their new ballistic cap GMSH.

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    South Boats finds winners from Seawork

    2008-08-01T20:09:00Z

    Isle of Wight based boatbuilder South Boats Special Projects won contracts for four more boats  from the June  Seawork event, a sales surge which operations director Ben Coleman said was worth ' in the region of £ 22m' .

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    Seazone regional workshops

    2008-08-01T12:36:00Z

    SeaZone Solutions, a subsidiary of the UK Hydrographic Office, is to hold a series of six local government regional workshops throughout England from 30 September to 9 October.

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    Minister supports seafarers

    2008-08-01T12:36:00Z

    The Tamar is faster than its predecessor, and is the most technologically advanced lifeboat ever to be produced by the RNLI.UK Shipping Minister Jim Fitzpatrick MP met a delegation of port chaplains from as far away s New Zealand, Brazil and Ghana at the Sailors' Society Global Port Chaplains Conference ...

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    Silence in Iceland

    2008-08-01T12:36:00Z

    The Tamar is faster than its predecessor, and is the most technologically advanced lifeboat ever to be produced by the RNLI.Specialist marine exhaust systems designer and manufacturer Halyard has appointed Asafl ehf as distributor or its products in Iceland, where the fishing industry accounts for more than half of the ...

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    Harbour Master's views sought

    2008-08-01T12:36:00Z

    The shipyard has produced a large number of tugs of this type, based on a very successful design from Robert Allan Ltd. Over the years the original design has been refined in the light of experience gained locally and through other operators also using vessels built by Irving. In this ...

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    Risk sharing loan funds Estonia ferry

    2008-08-01T12:36:00Z

    The European Investment Bank (EIB) is stepping up its support in Estonia by providing ¢ 25m in support of investment in maritime transport. A finance contract with AS Tallink Grupp was signed in Tallinn.

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    Multibeam system for Dredging International

    2008-08-01T12:36:00Z

    Dredging and land reclamation specialists Dredging International of Antwerp, recently retained to deepen and widen the Panama Canal, have commissioned a portable ES3-M10 integrated multibeam echosounder and motion sensor from Odom Hydrographic Systems Inc of Baton Rouge, Louisiana in the USA.