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NewsWorld's Most Mature Cadet Qualifies
With the training and retention of mariners a continuing issue for the shipping community, it comes as good news that ex-fireman cadet Peter Sommerfield has recently qualified in the UK as a certificated watchkeeping officer at the age of 45 years. He has completed his cadetship and qualified for his ...
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NewsCareers Website to boost Merchant Navy
A campaign to increase the number of Merchant Navy recruits in Scotland has been launched by Scottish Enterprise, with £ 250,000 initiative aimed at attracting more officer cadets into the industry.
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NewsBook Now for UKHMA Spring Seminar
The UK Harbour Masters' Association (UKHMA) has scheduled its 2008 Spring Seminar for 16 April at the IMarEST City Conference Centre in London. The latest in the series of popular events will cover a broad range of topical issues.
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NewsTwin Screw Conversions Continue at Bollinger
In the present commercial climate it is rare in Europe for outdated shiphandling tugs to be subjected to a major reconstruction and even more unusual for a single screw vessel to re-emerge as a twinscrew boat.
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NewsWork on Track for Unique German SWATH Boats
Construction is underway at Nordseewerke (NSW) in Emden of two more unique German SWATH vessels. They are not the first of their kind from the yard but are the first ever for service with the German Customs.
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NewsNew Survey Boat for Jan de Nul
Belgian dredging and marine engineering company Jan de Nul has taken delivery of ' DN 75' ,a new purpose built fast survey vessel currently in transit to Dubai, where it will be used to support a number of island construction projects.
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Joint AUV Development
Two Scottish companies, SeeByte and Subsea 7, are to collaborate in development of a new generation Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) for the offshore oil and gas industries.
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New Fishermen's Association
A new British national fishermen' s association has formed which claims it will soon represent over 85% of the fishing fleet.
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NewsSimulators Secure DNV Approval
A total of 26 Kongsberg Maritime Neptune Engine Room Simulators (ERS) and Cargo Handling Simulators (CHS) have received a new Det Norske Veritas (DNV) Statement of Compliance this year according to new standards laid out in DNV Class A, Standard for Certification of Maritime Simulators No. 2.14 October 2007, which ...
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NewsGLAs Applaud US eLoran Decision
The General Lighthouse Authorities of the United Kingdom and Ireland have applauded the US decision last month to implement Enhanced Loran (eLoran) in the US as a complement to the Global Positioning System (GPS), particularly in the event of an outage or disruption in service.
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NewsPD Ports Gets Go Ahead for NGCT
PD Ports (PDP) in the UK has announced that it has received formal planning approval for its Northern Gateway Container Terminal (NGCT) at Teesport in the North East of England.
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NewsBright Sparks Address Skills Shortage
A marine course at South Tyneside College in the UK is helping to address skills shortages training which could help save shipping companies thousands of pounds in staffing costs.
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Middle East Workboats 2008
Against a background of the Middle East offshore support industry witnessing dramatic growth on the back of multi-billion dollar projects in the region, the Middle East Workboats 2008 conference and exhibition will take place at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre from 28 to 30 April.
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NewsITS 2008 is Still on the Crest of a Wave
Few maritime events stay the course for 40 years, let alone continue to grow. The ITS series of Tug and Salvage Conventions, however, remain on the crest of a wave, continuing to break records time after time.
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Everard Celebrate 20 Years of Marine Insurance
Kent based Everard Insurance Brokers Ltd are celebrating 20 years over which they have kept well abreast of progressive changes in the London marine insurance market.
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Boskalis and Van Oord Sign Contract for Maasvlakte 2
Van Oord and Boskalis in The Netherlands, represented by Van Oord' s managing director John van Herwijnen and Boskalis CEO Peter Berdowski, have signed the contract for the Maasvlakte 2 port expansion project at Rotterdam.
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NewsSeawork Sails into Second Successful Decade
Seawork successfully completed its first decade of exhibitions in the ABP Port of Southampton last summer with record numbers of exhibitors and visitors attending Europe' s biggest and fastest growing business to business event for the commercial marine and workboat sectors.
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NewsWinter Storms Lead Salvors a Merry Dance
When the roll-on-roll off ferry ‘ Riverdance’ was blown ashore near Blackpool on 1 February in heavy seas and force 10 winds, it was just the start of a protracted salvage operation in which weather conditions in the area have remained firmly in control.
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NewsMarine Civils Interest Builds at Seawork
The Seawork exhibition and conference, which returns to the ABP Port of Southampton on 10 to 12 June, is continuously evolving and one of the new features for 2008 is the introduction of a Marine Civils Pavilion within the show, acknowledging that marine civil engineering and maritime construction works are ...
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NewsJoint Service Fire Boat for French/Germans
Europa 1, the first fire fighting boat to go into joint service with both French and German authorities, has been delivered to fire brigades in Kehl and Strasbourg on the Rhine by German builder Neckar-Bootsbau Ebert.
