Industry News – Page 162
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NewsA plan for maritime security regulation
Maintaining high standards and sustained growth in the absence of formal market institutions is challenging.
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Supply chain security
The heads of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the World Customs Organization (WCO) met in London last month to discuss supply chain security and related matters, which cut across the mandates of the Organizations.
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NewsNew MAN engine academy
MAN Truck & Bus has opened a new engine academy in Nuremburg to train service personnel in handling MAN engines.
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NewsTangier Med Port security contract for G4S
Secure outsourcing group G4S has signed a new contract with the Tangier Med Port Authority and Tangier Med Special Agency to deliver a broad range of integrated security solutions at the largest secure site in Morocco.
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Cork beats trend
Despite the ongoing national economic downturn, Ireland’s Port of Cork Company has returned an improved performance in 2012 compared to 2011.
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Baltic outlook positive
Both the global and EU economy is set to pick up speed slowly over the course of the next year according to a report from Finland’s Centre for Maritime Studies.
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Antwerp LNG subsidy
Antwerp Port Authority has received positive news from the European Commission concerning its application for a subsidy for LNG.
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NewsPositive response for French boatbuilder
The French boatbuilder ACCF exhibited for the first time at Seawork this year with a vessel on the floating pontoons.
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NewsAEGIR-Marine represents Netherlands
Stern tube seal specialist, AEGIR-Marine, is to represent the Netherlands as a ‘National Champion’ in the 2013/14 European Business Awards (EBAs).
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World Maritime Day theme proposal
The IMO Council has endorsed a proposal by IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu to adopt ‘IMO Conventions: Effective Implementation’ as the World Maritime Day theme for 2014.
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NewsDamen wins prize for ‘green’ tug
Damen Shipyards Group has won third prize at a competition for the Top 100 Dutch ‘green’ companies for its ASD Tug 2810 Hybrid.
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NewsStrategic Marine delivers crewboat
Western Australia based shipbuilding company Strategic Marine, has delivered the ‘Jati Six’ crew transfer vessel for Malaysian based Dinasti Jti Sdn Bhd.
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News‘North American Arctic Marine Corridor’
A new policy brief issued this week says Canada’s federal government must prepare the country’s northern communities for the ‘New Arctic’.
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NewsRNLI rescues tall ship crew off Ireland
A rapid response by the RNLI resulted in 30 people surviving without injury when the Dutch tall ship Astrid hit rocks and sank on Ireland’s Cork coast on Wednesday.
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NewsHydrex appoints UK agent
Belgian underwater repair specialist, Hydrex, has appointed a UK agent as part of its expanding network “to keep up with demand”.
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NewsNew workboat launch
A UK boatbuilder has launched its latest DNV class 24m workboat which will now begin extensive sea trials before being handed over to its new owners.
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NewsPrivate placements for Boskalis
Royal Boskalis Westminster NV has completed US Private Placement notes with 24 institutional investors to complete the “last part of financing for the acquisition of Dockwise”.
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NewsEuropean Offshore & Energy 2014
The first ‘European Offshore and Energy’ exhibition is set to take place in 2014 to introduce the industry’s latest product innovations, solutions and services.
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Dutch wrecks removal
In the Dutch section of the North Sea are four wrecks of sunken ships that are forming an obstruction to shipping.
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Training partnership
Hamburg based training consortium ETC has partnered with SAM Electronics to provide ECDIS training for the CHARTPILOT and ECDISPILOT, complementing SAM’s successful cooperation with Safebridge for online training, thereby expanding SAM’s ECDIS training capabilities.
