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Scotland’ s Aberdeen Harbour has reported a healthy start to 2009, remaining on budget for the first half of this year. Passenger figures for the ferry service between Aberdeen, Shetland and Orkney…

The winner of the Maritime Innovation Award 2009 will be announced at the Maritime Awards Gala in Rotterdam on 28 October. Four other major Dutch maritime awards will be presented at the…

LD lines will introduce a new direct ferry service between Rosslare in southern Ireland and Cherbourg in France starting on 19 September. The link, which was previously launched between Rosslare and Le…

Aboa Mare University of Applied Sciences, located at Turku in Finland, has received accreditation of the Nautical Institute as an official Dynamic Positioning training centre. The new DP bridge simulator in Turku…

The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) is also looking forward to a discussion on CO2 capture and storage to be held in November. This will ask if the oil and gas industry…

Coasters of the 1950sBy Bernard McCallPublished by Coastal ShippingISBN:  978-1-902953-37-3Hardback, 80 pagesPrice £ 16.00Coasters of the 1950s is the latest in the popular ' Coaster' series by Bernard McCall and avid readers…

National Coastwatch - The NCI StoryBy Brian FrenchPublished by The History PressISBN:  978-0-752449296Paperback, 128 pagesPrice £ 14.99This book is the first comprehensive history of the National Coastwatch Institution (NCI). It makes a…

Shipwrecks of the Forth and TayBy Bob BairdPublished by Whittles PublishingISBN  978-1904445-74-6Paperback, 286 pagesPrice £ 18.99This book would make a great read for anyone who has a fascination with ships, wrecks and…

The International Dynamic Positioning Operators Association (IDPOA) was launched in London recently at the inaugural European Dynamic Positioning Conference. The new not for profit professional body provides a representative voice to the…

Resurgent UK shipyard Cammell Laird Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders is celebrating being crowned ‘ Business of the Year’ at the prestigious Liverpool Daily Post Business Awards. The shipyard had its most successful year…

Maritime safety website Maritime Accident Casebook is now offering free safety sites to its corporate and organisational subscribers. Called SafeWork, the sites will enable subscribers to build targeted safety resources to meet…

Southampton UK based GRP and FRP moulder Composite Mouldings Ltd (CML) has won an order to build mouldings for the Lochin 333 Harbour Pilot to be delivered to Plymouth. The order adds…

Scientists at America’ s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have demonstrated that tsunamis in the open ocean can change sea surface texture in a way that can be measured by satellite-borne…

Sweden’ s Saab TransponderTech AB has been awarded a contract from the Romanian Naval Authority to upgrade and expand the country’ s AIS network along the Black Sea coast. Under the contract,…