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SMIT and URS have been training their tug masters in the Netherlands and Belgium with MARIN Mermaid simulators since 2008.

PC Maritime’s new Navmaster ECDIS type specific training DVD is now available,believed to be the first stand alone type specific training CD Rom.

Composite Manufacturing (CML) and Brockenhurst College have completed the first run of City and Guilds accredited five day hand laminating courses held at their facilities in Marchwood, Southampton UK.

The growth in passenger traffic on the Thames in London has brought increased employment opportunities for skilled crew members and many boat operators are actively recruiting staff.

Ships Electronic Services Ltd (SES) represented a number of globally known maritime communication and navigation electronics manufacturers at this year’s Seawork International.

Five German Pilot Associations for the Elbe, Emden, Hamburg, Jade/Weser II and Kiel Canal I (Brunsbüttel) have chosen Hamburg based maritime navigation specialists SevenCs GmbH to supply their Orca Pilot Portable Pilot…

Thomas Gunn Navigation Services and Transas Marine Ltd have formed a new partnership which prmises to bring significant benefits to customers of both organisations.

The Queens Diamond Jubilee Pageant, to be held on the River Thames on 3 June, is the biggest event on the London river for more than 300 years and will probably never…

For three years, Ocean Pacific Marine ran its Campbell River, British Columbia operations with a Travelift 75 BFMII.

ACE Winches staff recently celebrated the completion of their largest manufacturing contract, worth £4.2m for Houston USA based Superior Energy Services, which was delivered on the world’s largest airplane, the Antonov 225.

The German marine equipment supplier HATLAPA Marine Equipment has manufactured a selection of winches specifically designed for research vessels.

Jan de Nul has had an interesting collection of deck machinery installed on its new fall pipe dredger.

Twenty 150-tonne electric MacGregor winches are being manufactured for two pipe-laying heavy lift offshore construction vessels currently being constructed at Cosco’s Nantong Shipyard in China.

The conversion of a semi-submersible offshore transport barge into a cable lay pontoon meant more than locating the cable reel, as there was no place for the crew.

The Dutch designer and builder of bulk grabs, Nemag, reports growing interest in crane grabs with an environmetally friendly full enclosure format.