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Having completed a strategic reorientation over recent years, Smit International NV has posted mixed but generally good overall results for 2004. The groups Salvage Division experienced a high work rate throughout the…

1st June 2005

SMIT Profits Up for 2004

1st June 2005

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The RNLI s final Severn class lifeboat was named last month in a ceremony at Poole by outgoing engineering manager Bob Cripps, who was instrumental in introducing the all weather lifeboat into…

1st June 2005

Last Severn Class Lifeboat Named

1st June 2005

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Road pricing schemes which would encourage haulage firms to shift some of their freight off the crowded road network and onto trains, inland waterways and short sea shipping routes were highlighted in…

1st June 2005

Transport Study Encourages Water Freight

1st June 2005

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Admission is free to the Merseyside Maritime Museum , where a collection of newly acquired exhibits linked to the Titanic and Lusitania disasters has gone on display. These include the only item…

1st June 2005

Disaster Display on Merseyside

1st June 2005

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Icelandic shipping to logistics company Samskip is set to acquire control of the Dutch intermodal operator Geest North Sea in a deal that will create Europes largest intra-European intermodal/shortsea container shipping network.…

1st June 2005

Intermodal Box Empire Created

1st June 2005

SEAWORK NEWS

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The Isle of Wights Cheetah Marine has been racing against the clock to have one of the most unusual boats it has ever built completed in time to bring to the floating…

1st June 2005

Fast Cheetah Wins Race to Seawork Exhibition

1st June 2005

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To coincide with SeaBritain 2005 , the year long festival inspired by the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar, the National Historic Ships Committee , in association with the National Maritime Museum…

1st June 2005

Historic Ships Website Re-Launched

1st June 2005

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Hundreds of staff from Southampton Cargo Handling Ltd (SCH) and its subsidiary Cruise and Passenger Services (CPS) had their busiest ever week recently when the liners Queen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth…

1st June 2005

Six Is A Crowd In Southampton

1st June 2005

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Lifting hardware supplier Crosby has launched a new range of chain fittings that are 25% stronger than comparable products and can be used with either Grade 10 or Grade 8 chain. The…

1st June 2005

Chain System Upgrade Strengthens Capacity Requirements

1st June 2005

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Hurricane Hugo has just struck the Caribbean island of St Kitts, causing massive damage.

1st June 2005

Young Engineers Rise to Royal Navy Challenge

1st June 2005

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An innovative new technology for tracking sediment in rivers and seas has opened up a lucrative new market in the United States for a Glasgow based environmental consultancy.

1st June 2005

See You Later, in the Land of the Gator

1st June 2005

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Maritime services provider Groupe Bourbon has posted a turnover increase of 13.9% in marine services for the first quarter of this year. The sector has been boosted by an expansion of offshore…

1st June 2005

Cup of Cheer for Bourbon

1st June 2005

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Rolls-Royce established its first University Technology College (UTC) in Norway last month to conduct key research programmes in the marine sector.

1st June 2005

Marine Technology Centre Opens in Norway

1st June 2005

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The Port of Marseilles Authority is transferring two panamax gantry cranes from Fos container terminal to handle growing box traffic at the adjacent Brule-Tabac terminal. The extra equipment will allow Brule-Tabac to…

1st June 2005

Crane Drain Boosts Boxes

1st June 2005

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Subtitled A Celebration of Britains Maritime Heritage, Maritime Britain examines the island nations nautical heritage seen through the astonishing variety of its maritime museums, historical ships and coastal attractions.

1st May 2005

Maritime Britain

1st May 2005

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Quite specific in its focus, this Volume 2 deals with shipwrecks along the UK east coast from Whitby down to Skegness during the years from1918 to 2003, following an earlier Volume 1…

1st May 2005

The Comprehensive Guide to Shipwrecks of the East Coast

1st May 2005

SEAWORK NEWS

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We had such a great show in 2004, were coming back for the second year running! So says Lynne Burch, managing director of Seamariner Ltd, the only marine recruitment company exhibiting at…

1st May 2005

Personnel Preferences

1st May 2005

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XLentcleaning journeys from Canterbury UK to Seawork, where it will be giving demonstrations of its Farrow System method of removing surface coatings on the quayside. XLentcleaning is a licensed operator of the…

1st May 2005

Have a Blast On the Quayside

1st May 2005

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Sonardyne International will be presenting its latest SCOUT Ultra-Short BaseLine (USBL) acoustic tracking system on Stand 16 at the Seawork 2005 International exhibition next month.

1st May 2005

SCOUT Marks Sonardyne’s Seawork Debut

1st May 2005

SUBSEA SERVICES

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Dutch subsea contractor Noordhoek Offshore BV is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year by introducing the unique new TUP Diving System, designed and built in-house in consultation with its subsidiary Seatec Underwater…

1st May 2005

Dutch Deliver Doubled Bottom Time

1st May 2005