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Germanys lifeboat service DGzRS in Bremen has added the new delta-hulled, wide-stern rescue boat Woltera to its fleet of more than 60 versatile lifeboats and rescue cruisers.

1st June 2002

New Delta Boat for German Rescue Service

1st June 2002

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The Briggs Group of counter-pollution and marine specialists has acquired the name and assets of the Ipswich UK-based marine civil engineering company Keliston. The new marine civil engineering company will trade under…

1st June 2002

Briggs Group Acquires Keliston

1st June 2002

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The Savannah Pilots Association in Georgia USA have been operating their 57 aluminium pilot boat since 1984. Built at Louisianas Breaux Bay Craft, the boat has served them well. When a repower…

1st May 2002

Challenging Repower for Savannah Pilots

1st May 2002

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News The Dutch dredging industry has been rocked again by a battle for control of the recently formed Ballast HAM Dredging joint venture.

1st May 2002

New Dutch Dredging Industry Dispute Flares

1st May 2002

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The contract to demolish the existing riverside facility and rebuild a new jetty at Denton Wharf, Gravesend, has been awarded to Mowlem Marine, a division on John Mowlem and Company, by the…

1st May 2002

PLAs Gravesend Jetty Works Underway

1st May 2002

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A new product from Letchworth UK-based dataTaker Ltd can be used in the marine industries to monitor the temperature of composites during construction.

1st May 2002

Temperature Monitor Warns of Variance in Boatbuild Composites

1st May 2002

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The largest ropax ferry ever to sail under the Spanish flag has been delivered by IZARs Seville yard to owner Trasmediterranea. The 180m long Murillo was delivered almost two months early and…

1st May 2002

Spain Flags Largest Ever Ropax Ferry

1st May 2002

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The growth outlook for Ro-Ro shipping is reflected in the theme of this months RORO 2002 conference in Lubeck, Germany - a new era of opportunity. Combined with a major exhibition, the…

1st May 2002

RORO Industry Meets in Go-Go Mood

1st May 2002

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The Central Dredging Association (CEDA) has celebrated the creation this month of a North African Section with the announcement that CEDA Dredging Days will be held for the first time in its…

1st May 2002

CEDA Dredging Days Goes to Casablanca

1st May 2002

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From 1 July of this year, ships are required to carry emergency escape breathing devices (EEBDs) in accordance with amendments to IMO SOLAS legislation.

1st May 2002

EEBD Meets New SOLAS Requirements

1st May 2002

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Lemwerder, Lower Saxony, workboat specialist Abeking & Rasmussen is on target to complete the first of a trio of state-of-the-art environmental protection patrol boats this Autumn for the German Coast Guard.

1st May 2002

Germans ready First of Three Enviro-boats

1st May 2002

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The newly formed Humber Trade Zone Initiative (HTZI) is set to benefit from over £ 34m of regional aid to boost the long term development of an area which boasts the UK'…

1st April 2002

£34m Long Term Development Aid Boost for Humberside

1st April 2002

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A new report by the Society of Maritime Industries (SMI) has warned the UK maritime supply industries to prepare to bid over the next few months for major American contracts.

1st April 2002

America Opens Door to Foreign Suppliers

1st April 2002

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The new supply vessel North Mariner, named in a ceremony last month, is the first British ordered vessel to be built to DNVs new environmental class.

1st April 2002

New CLEAN Supply Vessel

1st April 2002

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County Antrim-based Fast Engineering has secured a contract which makes the Japanese Coast Guard the first overseas customer for its new Fastank Bund Secondary Containment System (FBSCS).

1st April 2002

Japanese Coast Guard Orders Fastank

1st April 2002

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Two UK south coast marine manufacturers who have been working closely together for seven years have joined forces, with exhaust systems specialists Halyard purchasing Sabre Fabrications. Sabre, to be renamed Halyard Fabrications…

1st April 2002

Halyard and Sabre Join Forces

1st April 2002

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The new Container Terminal Lubeck, opening in April, is a Hamburg operation from start to finish, but it will also add a serious box handling dimension to the increasingly intermodal Baltic port…

1st April 2002

Hamburg Terminal Adds dimension to Lubeck

1st April 2002

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The Transas Group celebrated 10 years as an international supplier of marine software and systems last month with events at its world headquarters in Portsmouth UK.

1st April 2002

Transas Group Turns Ten

1st April 2002

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Counter-pollution specialists Briggs Environmental Services have completed a major recruitment drive in a move aimed at adding fresh momentum to its ongoing global expansion plans.

1st April 2002

Briggs Environmental Services Expansion

1st April 2002

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Leading experts have joined forces to form a major new counter-pollution company which will work for the prevention and control of oil and chemical spills worldwide.

1st April 2002

Counter-Pollution Company Launches in Aberdeen

1st April 2002