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The UK Marine and Coastal Access Act became law last month, committing the UK to an ambitious new project to help manage the marine environment and protect it from horrors such as…

10th December 2009

UK Marine and Coastal Access Act becomes law

10th December 2009

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

As political leaders gather in Copenhagen this week for COP 15 United Nations Climate Change, Saab spin-off Minesto has revealed another step towards tidal energy commercialisation by producing electricity with the Deep…

9th December 2009

Deep Green flies kite for tidal energy

9th December 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Construction has begun of a new ‘ heavy lift’ inland port costing about € 32m at Rendsburg on the Kiel Canal, the world’ s busiest manmade waterway, linking the Baltic and the…

9th December 2009

Kiel Canal gets third major port

9th December 2009

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The UK Secretary of State for Transport, Lord Adonis, has appointed Helen Alexander, CBE, as Chairman of the Board of the Port of London Authority (PLA), with effect from 1 January 2010.…

9th December 2009

New PLA Chairman

9th December 2009

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The Port of Hamburg is lowering its fees in an effort to secure future growth. In intensive talks with the port and shipping industry and upon the initiative of Senator Axel Gedaschko…

9th December 2009

Hamburg port alliance plans for growth

9th December 2009

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The progress and growth of the separate companies Cammell Laird (Gibraltar) and Cammell Laird Shiprepairers & Shipbuilders Ltd in the UK brought an urgent need for clarification of the relationship between the…

7th December 2009

Cammell Laird clarity

7th December 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The growing demand for easily deployed high speed vessels has so far left one factor on the sidelines. People are not really built for the kinds of motion onboard, as Dr Dominic…

4th December 2009

The problems of rapid RIB travel

4th December 2009

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

AkzoNobel chief Eexecutive Hans Wijers recently threw his weight behind ‘ The Copenhagen Communiqué on Climate Change’ by adding his name to those of hundreds of other global business leaders who are…

3rd December 2009

AkzoNobel signs climate change Communiqué

3rd December 2009

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POLLUTION CONTROL

Wä rtsilä ' s sulphur oxides (SOx) scrubber has been granted the Sulphur Emission Control Area (SECA) Compliance Certificate by the classification societies Det Norske Veritas and Germanisher Lloyd following successful testing.

3rd December 2009

Wärtsilä scrubber knocks SOx off emissions

3rd December 2009

POLLUTION CONTROL

POLLUTION CONTROL

A new oil combat vessel which is being built at the STX Europe yard in Finland will be the first ship to be installed with a new box cooler anti-fouling system which…

3rd December 2009

New anti-fouling system for box coolers

3rd December 2009

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

A design for a new generation of deep water wind turbine foundations, developed by a British consortium led by independent engineering and environmental consultant Gifford, has been selected in a competition organised…

3rd December 2009

Gifford wind turbine design shortlisted by Carbon Trust

3rd December 2009

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Canada' s AXYS Technologies Inc has deployed an offshore wind resource assessment buoy, the WindSentinel, off of Race Rocks Island in the coastal waters of British Columbia, Canada.

3rd December 2009

Canada launch worlds first offshore wind assessment buoy

3rd December 2009

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Queen’ s University Belfast has launched the world’ s largest working hydro-electric wave energy device in conjunction with Aquamarine Power.

3rd December 2009

New wave energy device has world as its Oyster

3rd December 2009

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Captain Richard Parkinson, managing director of Mojo Maritime Limited of Cornwall UK has received a top honour at the 2009 South West Green Energy Awards ceremony, which took place in Bath earlier…

3rd December 2009

Cornwall champions sustainable energy

3rd December 2009

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IHC Merwede of the Netherlands chose this week’ s Marintec exhibition in Shanghai to launch its first ever Chinese made cutter suction dredger. The IHC 8527MP is a special design for the…

3rd December 2009

Double Dutch at Marintec China

3rd December 2009

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Tyneside in the UK had to deal with a friendly invasion on Tuesday when residents of the remote Faroe Islands headed south for a shopping spree.

3rd December 2009

Danish Vikings lay siege to Newcastle

3rd December 2009

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More than 30 participants from around the world, including Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Namibia, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Tanzania, Turkey and the United Kingdom, came to Singapore for…

3rd December 2009

IADC Seminar a success in Singapore

3rd December 2009

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The Sea Cadets, Britain’ s oldest maritime youth charity, launched a national fundraising campaign last week for a new twin masted brig to help inspire the next generation of sailors.

3rd December 2009

Sea Cadets launch Tall Ship Appeal

3rd December 2009

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Seven new design ideas for offshore wind turbine foundations have been shortlisted by the UK’ s Carbon Trust in a competition aimed at transforming the offshore wind industry.

3rd December 2009

Competition moves offshore wind into deeper waters

3rd December 2009

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The Isle of Wight UK based developer and manufacturer of composite materials and technologies, Gurit, secured an agreement last week with Sheffield based Pulse Tidal, the tidal stream power provider, to engineer,…

3rd December 2009

€8m grant for Pulse Stream tidal generator

3rd December 2009