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The Marine Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) in Belfast welcomed Her Majesty the Queen last month. She was accompanied on the visit by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh and Secretary of…

Readers can now keep up to date with the latest news from Maritime Journal in the social networking site Twitter. Readers can either sign up to ‘ follow’ us or subscribe to…

Southampton based international seafaring charity, the Sailors’ Society, has thanked their recent London Marathon runners for pledging a record £ 25,000. The charity has since received more than 30 enquiries regarding entry…

Following a year of record vessel tonnage and healthy cargo throughput, Aberdeen Harbour has announced strong financial figures for 2008. With total vessel tonnage increasing to 24.17m tons and cargo throughput remaining…

Designers of seawater systems looking for materials offering resistance to seawater corrosion, high inherent resistance to biofouling and good fabricability should consider specifying copper-nickels that offer all of the above. A new…

Marine safety equipment supplier Cosalt has launched a new website to give its customers quick and easy access to information about the company and its expanding range of products and services for…

The marine company Emu Ltd doubling the size of its Durley headquarters near Southampton. The company has acquired an adjacent site, adding some 3,000 sq/ft to its HQ to accommodate its expanding…

Magnetic compass manufacturer Lilley & Gillie has invested almost £ 250,000 in constructing a dedicated maritime testing facility on the outskirts of Birmingham in the heart of the UK’ s West Midlands.…

Double Olympic sailing gold medallist Shirley Robertson is helping the UK’ s Maritime and Coastguard Agency to save lives this summer by presenting two new sailing safety video podcasts for their website.…