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INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

“Getting three or four ‘options’ back from a straight question asking for advice isn’t good enough,” said Denis Hogan of LEEA, “an industry association should be able to give solid guidance on…

24th August 2015

Denis Hogan: Lifting Equipment Engineers Association

24th August 2015

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The Greek government has agreed deadlines for the privatisation of its two major ports, Piraeus and Thessaloniki, following its cash for reforms pay out.

24th August 2015

Greek port sell-offs

24th August 2015

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

“To start with we went to our commercial marine boatbuilders and asked them to forget what they were doing today, but rather what they wanted to achieve,” said Martin Jackson of Marine…

24th August 2015

New vessel, new yard, new technology

24th August 2015

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Natural Energy Wyre Limited is making progress with the UK’s first estuary tidal barrage project after securing the rights to build across the river Wyre in Lancashire.

24th August 2015

UK set for first estuary tidal barrage

24th August 2015

SECURITY

SECURITY

Lessons learned from the prolific increase in building workboats for the offshore wind farm sector can benefit the military user, according to CTruk, a UK- based builder of boats for both the…

24th August 2015

Military lessons learnt on the windfarms

24th August 2015

INSURANCE, LEGAL & FINANCE

INSURANCE, LEGAL & FINANCE

Marine liability insurer The London P&I Club’s 2015 Annual Report highlighted an unusual run of expensive claims in the 2014/15 policy year, with progress in other areas meaning that the free reserves…

24th August 2015

London P&I Club maintains financial strength despite impact of large claims

24th August 2015

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

OceanWise, a UK-based supplier of Intelligent Marine and Coastal Mapping Data has announced the release of free, interactive, Marine Mapping product demonstrators available at www.oceanwise.eu/data. Built using OpenLayers, the demos allow the…

24th August 2015

Marine mapping demonstrator

24th August 2015

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Japanese headquartered global electronics manufacturer Standard Horizon has announce the launch of its latest fixed DSC VHF set, the GX1300E Eclipse, which has been made thinner to increase mounting options.

21st August 2015

Thinner Eclipse

21st August 2015

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

There can be few Aids to Navigation (AtoN) as remotely located as the three Rigwatcher units marking the decommissioned Frigg Field on the UK/Norwegian median in the North Sea.

21st August 2015

Keeping a lonely vigil

21st August 2015

MARINE CIVILS

MARINE CIVILS

Jan De Nul NV, a subsidiary of Jan De Nul Group, has taken over the Belgian company Algemene Ondernemingen Soetaert NV, subject to the approval of the Belgian Competition Authority.

21st August 2015

Flemish takeover

21st August 2015