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More than £ 3,500 was raised before Christmas for the UK’ s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) by Newcastle based marine rigging specialists Storrar Marine.

8th January 2009

RNLI funds success

8th January 2009

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Sea Vision UK, a nationwide campaign to raise the profile of the sea and maritime sector, has launched the latest, largest version of its Maritime Careers Guide, a magazine profiling different jobs…

8th January 2009

Maritime jobs guide

8th January 2009

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At the very end of 2008, twenty professionals from around the world got acquainted with dredging and its challenges during the 31st IADC International Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation.

8th January 2009

31st IADC seminar spotlights Abu Dhabi

8th January 2009

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Norway’ s national prosecutor, Bjoern Soknes, has fined Bourbon Offshore Norway AS 5m kroner (some £ 500,000) this week for failures which led to the deaths of eight people when the AHTS…

8th January 2009

Bourbon fined for Dolphin capsizing

8th January 2009

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Marine South East, the regional marine initiative of the South East of England Development Agency (SEEDA), will launch the findings of its Global Opportunities research at February’ s MareNet event which will…

8th January 2009

Februarys MareNet examines global marine opportunities

8th January 2009

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Taking time out from his busy schedule during the week before Christmas, the UK’ s Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, David Miliband MP, took the opportunity to visit the…

8th January 2009

Foreign Secretary visits Port of Tyne

8th January 2009

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The UK’ s Maritime and Coastguard Agency has issued a reminder to seafarers of important changes to the operating frequencies of the Cospas-Sarsat satellite based distress alerting service.

8th January 2009

SAR frequencies change to be implemented

8th January 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Cargotec’ s Kalmar division has delivered four new ship to shore (STS) cranes and nine other new container handling machines to the Port of Vuosaari at Helsinki in Finland.

1st January 2009

Lifting gear galore for new Port of Vuosaari

1st January 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Four new gantry cranes have arrived safely at their new home in Hamburg' s Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB) following the close supervision of their construction by Hamburg Port Consulting (HPC).

1st January 2009

Crane construction oversight in China

1st January 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The MacGregor Group’ s Offshore division has received orders for four remotely controlled deck handling manipulator systems (DHMS) for the two Island Offshore AHTS vessels, Island Valiant and Island Vanguard.

1st January 2009

MacGregor do deck handling double

1st January 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The Yacht Leg and Cradle Company has introduced the Motor Boat Dolly to its range of products which may make motor boat movement more efficient, onshore.

1st January 2009

Hello Dolly for a quayside cradle

1st January 2009

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

DREDGING & FLOOD DEFENCE

The UK’ s Westminster Dredging recently demonstrated the most efficient way of delivering dredged aggregate to a coastal defence project straight from the ship to the site, a process that removes the…

1st January 2009

Beach replenishment delivers environmental bonus

1st January 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The UK Hydrographic Office has signed a new bilateral agreement with China’ s Maritime Safety Agency (MSA) under which it is to distribute all 257 Electronic Nautical Chart (ENC) cells covering Chinese…

1st January 2009

UKHO Chinese agreement

1st January 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The Italian Hydrographic Institute in Genoa, the official nautical charting agency of the Italian Navy since 1872, has selected CARIS HIPS and SIPS geospatial software for processing of all its survey data.…

1st January 2009

Caris survey software for Italy and the UK

1st January 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Fugro in the Netherlands is to launch G2 on 1 February, a new satellite based precise positioning service combining data from both the US GPS constellation and the Russian Glonass network for…

1st January 2009

New Fugro GNSS positioning service

1st January 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

William Heaps, Assistant Marine Advisor & Hydrographic Manager of Associated British Ports (ABP), has been elected chairman of the six member International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS) in succession to Commander Paul…

1st January 2009

IFHS elects new chairman

1st January 2009

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

A pulsating procession of African singers, dancers and drummers drew a large crowd to the stand of Golden Arrow Marine on opening day of the London International Boat Show earlier this month.…

1st January 2009

The drums speak of a propulsion revolution

1st January 2009

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

E. P. Barrus chose the occasion of the London International Boat Show earlier this month to launch the all new ZT350 stern drive designed and manufactured by Yanmar Marine. Available this month…

1st January 2009

Drive arrives at London Boat Show

1st January 2009

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Kohler Power Systems launched a new line of diesel powered marine generators at the International Workboat Show in New Orleans last month. Scania’ s 12 and 16 litre marine engines will be…

1st January 2009

Scania/Kohler launch gensets at Workboat Show

1st January 2009

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

GE Transportation announced contracts to supply seven L250 inline diesel engines for three separate projects in the United States at the International WorkBoat Show in New Orleans last month.

1st January 2009

New GE diesels see Workboat Show success

1st January 2009