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UK communications regulator Ofcom has launched an online lifetime licensing service for ships and amateur radio.

1st December 2006

Online Licensing for Ships

1st December 2006

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French classification society Bureau Veritas is enjoying a record breaking year, with turnover expected to reach ¢ 1.8 billion by the end of this month. Speaking at a reception at Trinity House…

1st December 2006

Buoyant BV Pursues Wary GL

1st December 2006

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On December 8, working under an LOF 2000 form in cooperation with URS Salvage & Maritime Contracting, Multraship mobilised the rescue tender Brandaris, the multipurpose salvage vessels Multrasalvor and Union Beaver, the…

1st December 2006

Multraship Refloats Tank Barge Newbuilding

1st December 2006

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Emden based Nordseewerke, a company of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, has won the contract to build two revenue cutters for the Procurement Agency of the German Federal Customs Administration. The first boat is…

1st December 2006

Emden Maintains SWATH Momentum with German Customs Boats

1st December 2006

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A new Europe Lines container service between the portsof Drogheda and Rotterdam was launched last month, initially with one vesselsailing on a weekly basis every Friday evening from Barge Centre Waalhaven toarrive…

1st December 2006

New Drogheda – Rotterdam Container Service Launched

1st December 2006

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Lifeboat and davits supplier Schat-Harding has extended its wholly owned global service network with the purchase of Cadiz based Equipos Aquanor, an established independent lifeboat servicing station covering the ports and shipyards…

1st December 2006

Schat-Harding Expansion

1st December 2006

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The Holland Marine Equipment Association (HME) has launched a restyled website at www.hme.nl, where visitors can find information about Dutch equipment and maritime suppliers or subscribe for email postings of HME sponsored…

1st December 2006

HME Website Update

1st December 2006

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HRH The Princess Royal visited the SouthamptonSeafarers Centre recently to attend the annual meeting of volunteers andsupporters.

1st December 2006

Princess Supports Seafarers Centre

1st December 2006

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Salvors continue to study options for the ro-rocontainer ship Rokia Delmas, which ran aground off the French Atlantic coastport of La Rochelle in late October and has now been declared a total…

1st December 2006

Rokia Delmas Pollution Response Underway

1st December 2006

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This book provides details on over 2,800 of theworlds commercially active ports and over 19,000 port facilities and serviceswithin these ports to ensure the reader has the best knowledge to conductbusiness activities…

1st December 2006

Lloyds List Ports of the World 2007

1st December 2006

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Never Turn Backfeatures evidence from the RNLI archives to show how the fiercely independentRNLI was nearly taken over by the Government in the 1970s.

1st December 2006

Never Turn Back – The RNLI since the Second World War

1st December 2006

MONITORING & CONTROL

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Quay Marinas has completed a major upgrade toimprove the fuel dispensing facilities at all five of its waterfront locationsaround the British Isles. The investment covers the introduction of electronicmonitoring units designed by…

1st November 2006

Merridale Solution for Waterfront Fuel Berths

1st November 2006

MONITORING & CONTROL

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Advances in technology in thermal imaging have presented ship owners and operators with an opportunity to reduce the costs of meeting the requirements of maritime insurance companies through a regime of ongoing…

1st November 2006

Thermal Imaging Keeps Eye on SOLAS Requirements

1st November 2006

MONITORING & CONTROL

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The AMOT XTS-W Bearing Condition Monitoring System has received Lloyds Register Type Approval, ensuring product quality and suitability for marine applications, whilst enhancing confidence in its effectiveness in detecting critical bearing wear…

1st November 2006

Bearing Monitoring System

1st November 2006

MONITORING & CONTROL

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UK based Marine Software has supplied Marine Planned Maintenance and Marine Storekeeper for the new research vessel RRS James Cook, delivered recently by the Norwegian Flekkefjord Slipp & Maskinfabrikk shipyard. This latest…

1st November 2006

Software Monitors Marine Research Newbuild

1st November 2006

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After a year hiatus following Hurricane Katrina,the International WorkBoat Show returns to New Orleans USA from 29 Novemberthrough 1 December. The largest US maritime trade show and conference willagain take place in…

1st November 2006

International WorkBoat Show Returns to New Orleans

1st November 2006

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Oceanteam 2000 Ltd (ot2k) has deployed the Easytrak underwater tracking and positioning system from Applied Acoustic Engineering for mattress laying operations to protect power cables running from the offshore wind farm at…

1st November 2006

Acoustic Advances Aid Diver Safety

1st November 2006

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

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The dredger is urgently needed, officials said, particularly so because of the completion this year of Bremerhaven's new Container Terminal 4, which is adding 1,700m of new quayside and a new 100m…

1st November 2006

Unusual Hol Blank Takes Shape for Weser Ports

1st November 2006

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

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Dredging contractor Rohde Nielsen A/S has moved more than 7m m3 of sand in helping to construct new container terminals at Aarhus Harbour in Denmark. The projects origins date to 1998 when…

1st November 2006

Dredging Delivers Denmarks New Container Terminal

1st November 2006

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

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The Port of Rotterdam has awarded a contract to Stema Survey to deliver and implement the Silas acoustic data acquisition and processing system in combination with an OEM Odom Echotrac CV echo…

1st November 2006

Rotterdam Reduces Dredging Requirement

1st November 2006