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Maritime safety has lost one of its greatest and most influential advocates with the sudden passing earlier this month of Lord Donaldson of Lymington.

P& O Ports has reached agreement with joint venture partner Transportation Investment Holdings Limited (TIHL) to double the size of its port operations at Vostochny in Russia. Vostochny is located at the…

A secondary buyout has delivered the Southampton UK based Testbank Ship Repair and Boiler Company to a team led by its managing director and technical director, with the financial support of many…

Americas Marine Sonic Technology Limited (MSTL) has appointed RUCO Limited of Aberdeen as exclusive UK and Ireland sales representative for its Sea Scan PC sidescan sonar system. When connected to a GPS,…

China’ s Cosco Shipyard Group and Malaysian Marine & Heavy Engineering have joined a growing list of new exhibitors attracted by the change of location for the ShipRepair & Conversion 2005 exhibition…

The US Navy has unveiled plans for a major transformation in military marine navigation, with paper nautical charts to be replaced by advanced, interactive electronic navigation systems throughout the fleet. The ECDIS-N…

Radar systems are fitted on all commercialvessels and are widely used in the marine leisure sector as well as VesselTraffic Services (VTS).

Most salty dogs and even the general public knowabout modern sailing heroes such as Sir Francis Chichester, Clare Francis, DameEllen MacArthur, and Ben Ainslie MBE who wrote the forward to this book.