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Southampton UK based GRP and FRP moulder Composite Mouldings Ltd (CML) is defying recessionary conditions with an order book nearly full until 2011. The company has done all the mouldings for the…

1st April 2009

CML booked up

1st April 2009

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Freight by Water member Peter Barker from PRB Associates published his ninth annual report on UK shortsea freight, ro-ro and lo-lo capacity during the fourth quarter of 2008 and last month published…

1st April 2009

Shortsea reports available

1st April 2009

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Trinity House, the general lighthouse authority for England, Wales, the Channel Isles and Gibraltar, is about to commission its first LED Light Vessel (LV), set for duty on the Varne station in…

1st April 2009

Trinity House introduces its first LED Light Vessel

1st April 2009

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The Spiers Locks project in Glasgow’ s canal corridor has won the British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA) award for Strategy and Masterplanning. The ongoing regeneration of the canal corridor is recognised as…

1st April 2009

Canal regeneration awarded

1st April 2009

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The operation to remove the stern section of the container vessel ‘ MSC Napoli’ from the UK’ s Devon coast has reached its second milestone. Following a successful test, the project team,…

1st April 2009

Napoli recovery chains in place

1st April 2009

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Andrew Scott’ s Cloudburst has accepted appointment as UK sales representative for Italian dredger manufacturer Italdraghe Sp A. Cloudburst will represent Italdraghe’ s full range of cutter suction dredgers and dredging pumps…

1st April 2009

Dredging Cloudburst

1st April 2009

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‘ Wind energy can replace a large proportion of the polluting and finite fuels we currently rely on, said EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, at the opening session of the European Wind…

1st April 2009

Europe can lead a wind power world

1st April 2009

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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 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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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

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The Fluor Corporations UK division, Fluor Limited, and Airtricity, the renewable energy division of Scottish and Southern Energy, have been granted an exclusivity award by The Crown Estate to develop an offshore…

13th March 2009

More wind for joint venture partners

13th March 2009

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Specialist German newbuilds are in the news this month with one due for delivery, another launched and a third awaiting official approval.

13th March 2009

Range of new boat types for German owners

13th 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