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APM Terminals Maasvlakte II Rotterdam facility has officially opened promising to set new standards in safety, automation and zero emissions.

28th April 2015

Maasvlakte II officially opens

28th April 2015

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

Interspill 2015, the European oil spill conference and exhibition, took place at the RAI Convention Centre in Amsterdam across 3 days, from 24-26 March. Over 1,250 delegates, visitors and exhibitors from 75…

28th April 2015

Biggest ever Interspill

28th April 2015

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Ports, harbours and waterways have to manage an ever growing volume and mix of recreational activity and heavy commercial activity - at times across the same compact waterspace. This creates a series…

28th April 2015

Marine spatial planning

28th April 2015

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Finning UK and Ireland is now an authorised service and repair agent for Napier Turbochargers in the UK and Ireland. The service and distribution agreement applies to any MaK or Cat engine…

28th April 2015

Finning and Napier turbochargers

28th April 2015

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A new service provider for marine equipment manufacturers and system developers has entered the marine industry. Seaworthy Ltd specialises in marine approval and certification services, such as type approval and system certification,…

28th April 2015

Seaworthy service

28th April 2015

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Great Yarmouth, UK, based Applied Acoustic Engineering Ltd has won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category, for a second time. The Award is recognition of its outstanding achievement…

28th April 2015

Queen’s Award for underwater positioning company

28th April 2015

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International maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy, BMT Group Ltd, has announced a strong performance for the year to 30 September 2014. BMT secured revenues of £165.1m, with underlying operating profits…

28th April 2015

BMT buoyant

28th April 2015

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Mercator Media Limited’s Seawork International looks set to be yet another exciting three days from 16-18 June 2015, and over the next pages of MJ you can plan out your route around…

27th April 2015

Seawork International 2015 map and guide

27th April 2015

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The International Federation of Hydrographic Societies, which has its administrative headquarters in Plymouth, is to hold its 23rd Hydro conference in Cape Town’s International Convention Centre from 23-25 November.

27th April 2015

Hydro 2015

27th April 2015

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Skilltrade BV, Dutch publisher of the definitive three-volume Handbook of Offshore Surveying and convenors of specialist English-language hydrographic training courses since 2000, is to hold its 17th 13-week Category B course meeting…

27th April 2015

Skilltrade category B survey course

27th April 2015

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Teledyne TSS of Watford, UK, has extended its Saturn product range with introduction of new fibre-optic gyrocompass models. While specifically designed for commercial shipping, fast ferry and superyacht markets, the compact systems…

27th April 2015

New TSS gyrocompass range launched

27th April 2015

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

A new purpose-built survey catamaran under construction by Colchester-based CTruk for delivery to the Port of London’s Hydrographic Service later this year is to be equipped with an R2Sonic 2024 broadband multibeam…

27th April 2015

Multibeam for new PLA catamaran

27th April 2015

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Swift SVP, a new compact sound velocity profiler for shallow water operations, was among a clutch of new developments announced at Ocean Business by hydrographic and oceanographic instrumentation specialists, Valeport of Totnes,…

27th April 2015

New Valeport developments

27th April 2015

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The latest addition to Bibby HydroMap’s fleet of survey vessels, Bibby Athena, provided a focal point at Ocean Business for what company officials said was the first UK installation of a newly-installed…

27th April 2015

Latest Bibby HydroMap vessel demo

27th April 2015

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

With nearly 350 of the world’s leading manufacturers and organisations exhibiting their wares and a host of other activities, last month’s 5th biennial Ocean Business event at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton,…

27th April 2015

Record-breaking Ocean Business

27th April 2015

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The UK’s Offshore Marine Academy (OMA), which describes itself as ‘the leading renewables training operator’, has unveiled a brand new course for 2015 tailored to address the knowledge and skills gap in…

27th April 2015

Cables course

27th April 2015

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The European Council will triple the funds going towards its Med search and rescue operations in response to the increased number of illegal migrants trying to cross to Europe by boat.

27th April 2015

EU to triple Med SAR budget

27th April 2015

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Having a place of safety and allowing time for survivors to recover before being rescued at sea is behind the newly designed Seapod inflatable survival platform. The device, which will be making…

27th April 2015

Revolutionary survival platform

27th April 2015

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Calnetix Technologies’ Hydrocurrent system has been named the winner of the Marine Propulsion 2015 Award in the Auxiliary Machinery category at the recent Marine Propulsion Conference in London.

27th April 2015

Power from hot engine cooling water

27th April 2015

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Associated British Ports (ABP) is investing £2.1m in upgrading the outer lock gates at the Welsh port of Swansea.

27th April 2015

Swansea port gets £2.1m upgrade

27th April 2015