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NewsTransas Scoops SASMEX Training Award
Transas won the Training Category Award at a ceremony which was part of the revived Safety at Sea and Marine Equipment exhibition (SASMEX) in Brighton UK. The SAMEX Award was presented for the first ever distance simulation based training of oil spill and rescue response operations based in the Baltic ...
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NewsMCA Data Available on Google Earth
The Hydrography Unit of the UK Maritime Coastguard Agency''s Navigation Safety Branch has released a selection of files on recent bathymetric multibeam surveys for downloading to the general public using Google Earth, a free add-on to the Google search engine.
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NewsBiodiesel Attempt at Circumnavigation Record
Boaters around the world are following the record setting effort of Peter Bethune aboard his futuristic ''Earthrace'' powerboat as his team attempts to break the world circumnavigation record of 75 days in a vessel fueled 100 by biodiesel.
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NewsMCA Approves Marine Security Training
Securewest International, which has specialised in maritime security for more than 20 years, has received official approval of its security training operations from both the UK''s Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA) and the classification society Det Norsk Veritas (DNV).
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NewsPlanning Approval for Wave Hub
The UK Government gave planning approval earlier this month for the world''s first large scale wave farm off the coast of Cornwall in South West England.
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NewsTonnage Tax Withdrawn But EU Flagging Rules Apply
THE UK government has announced that the package of changes to tonnage tax published in January for implementation through the 2008 Finance Bill, will not take place this year pending further developments in Brussels.
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NewsRetrofit Anti-Fouling Keeps Tugs Working
Blockages in seawater engine cooling systems caused by bio-fouling continue to create problems for operators in terms of increased fuel usage, crew attention and premature pipework renewal. As a result, Cathelco Ltd is seeing a strong demand for retrofit marine pipework anti-fouling systems to eliminate the problem on vessels throughout ...
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NewsOlympics Anticipated at Port of Tilbury
The Port of Tilbury UK is providing an ideal stopping off point for two river buses travelling from Brisbane, Australia, to their final destination on the River Thames.The vessels, built for the Thames Clippers fleet, arrived at Tilbury on board the Edmongracht, and were unloaded in a carefully planned tandem ...
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News'Bourbon Dolphin' Questions Delay Anchorhandler Designs
Deepwater offshore oilfields and a changing regulatory scenario demand a new generation of anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS) designs with more power, more safety and more environmentally friendly features. New Marpol regulations are on the way, but designers are holding back on final designs until the outcome of the ...
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NewsSwansea Handling Gets Amazon Online
The ABP Port of Swansea is serving as the handling facility for thousands of tons of concrete components for a new distribution centre being built by the online retailing giant Amazon on Swansea Bay.
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Screened Testing Ends EPIRB False Alarms
With SOLAS amendments dictating that EPIRBs must undergo shore based maintenance at least every five years, the onus is on service companies and organisations to ensure that they have the correct equipment to undertake these service regimes.
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NewsFlair in the air and Seawork award
Ocean Safety won the Safety & Sea Survival category in the Spirit of Innovation Awards at Seawork 2008 with an ingenious waistcoat style lifejacket.
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Ship Ahoy Doha
Ahoy Rotterdam, organiser of the recent Europort Maritime exhibition, has entered into a partnership with Dubai based Al Fajer Information & Services to host the third edition of a renamed Ship & Port + Europort Maritime shipbuilding, port and marine technology exhibition.
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NewsResults of Marine Aggregate Research Published
The Marine Environment Protection Fund in the UK has published the findings of over £ 9m of research related to marine aggregate dredging.
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Assessing the Risks Posed by Marine Aggregate Extraction
A risk assessment framework for marine aggregate extraction has been developed by HR Wallingford in association with Royal Haskoning and the University of Newcastle.
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South African Contract for SRD
SRD of Beverley, East Yorkshire UK reports delivery of a purpose designed multibeam seabed visualisation, measurement and control system to De Beers Marine in South Africa under a contract worth over £ 500,000.
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News'Afon Cadnant - The Most Impressive Tug Yet for Holyhead Towing
For over fifteen years Maritime Journal has reported on new vessels entering service with the Holyhead Towing Company Ltd and the work that they do. Over that period we have seen a range of purpose built vessels developed specifically for the company''s core business of providing supporting services for the ...
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Marine Radar at 60
Another major milestone in the history of Kelvin Hughes Ltd. was achieved recently when the company celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of the installation of its first marine radar.
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Shipping soared in 2008
British shipping turnover grew from £ 9.5bn in 2007 to £ 11.9bn in 2008, an increase of over 25%, according to new figures produced for the UK Chamber of Shipping by the Office for National Statistics. Sea transport has thus taken third place in the services sector behind financial services ...
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Along Dubai for QE2
Dubai World, which owns Dubai Ports World, which purchased P& O''s global ports operations last year, has now acquired the iconic ocean liner ''Queen Elizabeth 2'' for $100m. The 40 year old, 70,000 ton cruise ship will be turned into a floating hotel alongside a pier at the Palm Jumeirah ...
