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Salvage operations involving the ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of cargo and bunkers from tankers and other vessels should be exempt from new controls proposed by Spain and Mexico and now under consideration by…

1st September 2005

Salvors Warn on STS Restrictions

1st September 2005

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

1st September 2005

Maritime Industries Mourn Lord Donaldson of Lymington

1st September 2005

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

A radical new design of pilot boat being built using some of the most advanced computer aided design and manufacturing techniques available has reached the keel laying stage on target.

1st September 2005

Keel Goes Down for CAD Pilot Boat

1st September 2005

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P& O Ports has reached agreement with joint venture partner Transportation Investment Holdings Limited (TIHL) to double the size of its port operations at Vostochny in Russia. Vostochny is located at the…

1st September 2005

Doubled Capacity at Russian Port

1st September 2005

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A secondary buyout has delivered the Southampton UK based Testbank Ship Repair and Boiler Company to a team led by its managing director and technical director, with the financial support of many…

1st September 2005

Buyout Secures Testbank

1st September 2005

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Americas Marine Sonic Technology Limited (MSTL) has appointed RUCO Limited of Aberdeen as exclusive UK and Ireland sales representative for its Sea Scan PC sidescan sonar system. When connected to a GPS,…

1st September 2005

Sea Scan in Aberdeen

1st September 2005

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China’ s Cosco Shipyard Group and Malaysian Marine & Heavy Engineering have joined a growing list of new exhibitors attracted by the change of location for the ShipRepair & Conversion 2005 exhibition…

1st September 2005

Change of Venue Lifts ShipRepair Exhibition

1st September 2005

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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…

1st September 2005

Paperless US Navy

1st September 2005

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Radar systems are fitted on all commercialvessels and are widely used in the marine leisure sector as well as VesselTraffic Services (VTS).

1st August 2005

Radar and ARPA Manual (2nd Edition)

1st August 2005

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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.

1st August 2005

Boats, Boffins and Bowlines

1st August 2005

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

Sheffield UK based International Mining and Marine Limited (IM& M) has further extended its range of specialised safety services for the shipping industry with the addition of the Draeger X-am 3000 and…

1st August 2005

Reliable Monitoring of Onboard Gases

1st August 2005

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

The ability of the Seawork Exhibition and Conference tocontinuously grow and improve was demonstrated once again at Seawork 2005 International .The eighth annual Seawork , in its unique presentational format in the…

1st August 2005

Sales Soar at Seawork 2005

1st August 2005

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

Of the 60 workboats of all types on Seawork 2005 s floating pontoon, none was so fearsome yet popular as the prototype Offshore Raiding Craft built on Anglesey by Holyhead Marine Services…

1st August 2005

Mean Marine Machine Seen at Seawork

1st August 2005

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

One of the many significant transactions officially acknowledged at Seawork 2005 saw Scotlands Macduff Ship Design conclude a design and project management deal with Irelands Drogheda Port Company for a 13.7m Environmental…

1st August 2005

DroghedaMacduff Deal at Seawork

1st August 2005

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

AC-CESS Co UK Ltd , which designs and manufactures the next generation AC-ROV , achieved multiple sales at the Seawork 2005 exhibition. With one order for multiple units of its mini ROV…

1st August 2005

AC-CESS for All at Seawork

1st August 2005

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

New ranges of software for seabed classification were unveiled at Seawork 2005 byYeovil based Atlantas Marine, UK and Irish distributors for the developers, Quester Tangent ofCanada. They included QTCMultiview for classifying sediment…

1st August 2005

Atlas Reveals New Products at Seawork 2005

1st August 2005

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Southampton UK based hydrographic surveyors Emu Ltd have taken delivery of a Reson SeaBat 8101 multibeam echosounder. The integrated multibeam system is also comprised of Reson PDS2000 data acquisition and processing software,…

1st August 2005

Reson to Be Cheerful

1st August 2005

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Over 300 delegates are expected at the 4th International Conference on High Resolution Surveys in Shallow Water , in Plymouth from 12-15 September.

1st August 2005

Shallow Survey 2005

1st August 2005

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

On prominent display at Seawork 2005 was the WinChart flat-panel ECDIS system from Gosport based Chartwork , the UK subsidiary of Norwegian software specialists, Navtech.

1st August 2005

Approval Sought for WinChart ECDIS

1st August 2005

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

On the Ohmex stand, director Ted Read reported strong interest from Dutch dredging contractors in the Lymington companys latest Mk 4 Tidalite portable tide gauge system, three of which have recently been…

1st August 2005

Ohmex Tide Gauge Orders

1st August 2005