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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…

Liverpool Maritime Graduates & Masters Association haslaunched a website at www. lmgma. co. uk which allows former and current students to enrole online as members, search for other members, catch up on…

MICAD Marine , which provides real-time data collection and presentation systems for commercial vessel operators, has announced the inclusion of Vessel Corrosion Monitoring asstandard equipment on all of its MICAD Marine Systems…

Industry, conservation groups and the public are being invited to give their views on a major piece of legislation which is intended to improve the management of Britains seas. The Government is…

A hospital ship that survived Hurricane Katrina is now providing essential relief to devastated communities along the US Gulf Coast. The Caribbean Mercy , which is run by the international charity Mercy…

Japans Furuno marine electronics company has opened a fully owned subsidiary, Furuno Deutschland GmbH in Hamburg, which has taken over Furunos service and distribution activities within Germany, Austria and Switzerland from former…

Things have moved so fast after the prototype development of Germany’ s new environmentally safe Futura Carrier river/sea vessel that the first commercial order has now been announced.

Fairmount Heavy Transport NV has closed a $50m offering of new equity, the proceeds of which will be used to acquire the semi-submersible barges BOA 19 and BOA 20 from BOA Offshore…

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

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.

Elliott Turbomachinery Ltd has transferred ownership, all intellectual rights and all new sales, service and spares of Elliott White Gill Thrusters, White Gill Thrusters , and Gill Thrusters to Cleveland UK based…

Nearly 500 abstracts from 43 countries have been submitted for the World Maritime Technology Conference ( WMTC 2006 ) which takes place 6-10 March next year at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference…