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The new MAN Diesel training centre, the PrimeServ Academy, was inaugurated at Saint-Nazaire in France earlier this month. Located in the Saint-Nazaire plant, the PrimeServ Academy showcases diesel engine best practice and…

1st April 2009

Diesel academy opens

1st April 2009

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Personal Everest yachtsman Geoff Holt is planning to take on the Personal Atlantic challenge next winter in which he will sail across the Atlantic Ocean, becoming the first quadriplegic sailor to do…

1st April 2009

Geoff Holt takes on his Personal Atlantic

1st April 2009

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Under the highly topical banner of ‘ Oriented to the market, Open to the future’ , the 26th International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) World Port Conference will focus on understanding…

1st April 2009

Europes IAPH Conference arrives in Genoa

1st April 2009

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The Wiley Nautical Almanac is now available for viewing as a demonstration video. Log onto wileyalmanac.com to see the video demonstration of Wiley Nautical’ s new digital almanac, which has been in…

1st April 2009

Free Nautical Almanac about to go live

1st April 2009

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Another level in artificial intelligence is to add its weight to the fight against marine pollution. Robotic fish are being developed that will not only detect potentially hazardous pollutants in the water,…

1st April 2009

Robotic fish will fight pollution

1st April 2009

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Regular container handling began in the German Port of Kiel last month with the arrival in the port’ s Ostuferhafen of the first one hundred 20ft containers from Riga on board the…

1st April 2009

Port of Kiel begins box handling

1st April 2009

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The UK’ s Maritime & Coastguard Agency was advised last Friday by its helicopter contractor CHC that all four Coastguard S92 helicopters operating out of Stornoway and Shetland have been grounded pending…

26th March 2009

MCA Scotland grounds SAR helicopters

26th March 2009

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The German Port of Hamburg achieved record results last year for internal waterway shipping, with container transport by environmentally friendly inland vessels growing by a dramatic 29%.

19th March 2009

Port of Hamburg boosts inland waterway box transport

19th March 2009

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With a high percentage of the worlds dredging fleet and ancillary workboats filling the region in recent years it is surprising that the Arabian Gulf has not had its own dedicated workboat…

17th March 2009

Arabian Gulf gets its Work Boat show

17th March 2009

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The latest addition to the Canadian Coast Guards hovercraft fleet is undergoing trials off the Isle of Wight. Mamilossa, Abenakis Indian for he who goes from water to the land, was built…

13th March 2009

Largest export hovercraft on trials

13th March 2009

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The United Kingdom Harbour Masters Association (UKHMA) has relocated the venue for its popular Spring and Autumn Seminars to the Victory Services Club, a short walk from Marble Arch in London.

13th March 2009

UKHMA Seminars venue

13th March 2009

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Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam (DSR) is the first yard in the world to receive the ISO 9001:2008 certificate, successor to the ISO 9001:2000.

13th March 2009

The United Kingdom Harbour Masters Association (UKHMA) has relocated the venue for its popular Spring and Autumn Seminars to the Victory Services Club, a short walk from Marble Arch in London.

13th March 2009

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Agreement has been reached on the purchase of a suitable site for the proposed new Doolin Search and Rescue Headquarters in Ireland.

13th March 2009

Site purchase for SAR HQ

13th March 2009

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The Tamar is faster than its predecessor, and is the most technologically advanced lifeboat ever to be produced by the RNLI.The new site offers podcasts on a range of topics, including marine…

13th March 2009

Marine podcasts for free

13th March 2009

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Metoc plc, which provides environmental design and risk management services for infrastructure assets, and consulting engineers Parsons Brinckerhoff have signed a non-exclusive alliance agreement to provide new services to the offshore renewable…

13th March 2009

Marine power agreement

13th March 2009

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Maritime expansion goes forward in Liverpool as international shippers Maersk Line UK & Ireland, part of the vast A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, establishes a headquarters in the port city.

13th March 2009

Maersk Line moves

13th March 2009

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Germanys Nordseewerke (NSW) Shipyard has launched Helgoland, the first of two unique 50m SWATH offshore patrol vessels for international Customs service in the German Bight and North Sea.

13th March 2009

Germans launch first of two SWATH ships for Customs

13th March 2009

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Rotterdam based Alphatron Marine has been appointed Officially Approved LRIT Test Centre by the Dutch Directorate General for Public Works and Water Management (IVW).

13th March 2009

Alphatron approved and expanded

13th March 2009

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The Port of London Authority (PLA) is celebrating a century of responsibility for the tidal Thames this year and the Museum of London Docklands is supporting its centenary with an exhibition titled…

13th March 2009

Museum celebrates PLAs Century of Service.

13th March 2009

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UK operator PD Ports achieved a full calendar year without any reportable accidents at its shortsea port of Howden on the River Ouse.

13th March 2009

Good news on Ouse

13th March 2009