Industry News – Page 211
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NewsFrench complete fast tender for Germans
The first of four novel 19.6m monohull pilot tenders, which officials have said are particularly suited for local conditions, is now in test service in the Ems, Elbe and North Sea.
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NewsSouth Boats purchases Lyme Boats assets
South Boats Special Projects Ltd has reached agreement with the administrators of Lyme Boats Ltd to purchase the assets of the former boat building company.
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NewsDanish boat tackles RMD Canal work
German waterway authorities in Nuremberg have taken the new Danish built multi-purpose workboat Hecht into service for a wide range of water works on the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal.
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NewsEU offshore wind continues to grow
Offshore wind farms are currently the largest construction projects in Europe according to the European Wind Energy Association in its offshore wind energy statistics for the first half year of 2011.
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NewsIADC Dredging and Reclamation Seminar
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has announced the 37th International Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation will take place on 24 - 28 October 2011 in Singapore.
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NewsGLAs launch strategy ‘2025 and Beyond’
The General Lighthouse Authorities for the UK and Ireland unveiled the marine Aids to Navigation (AtoN) strategy, ‘2025 and Beyond’ in a presentation at Trinity House in London on Monday.
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NewsMarine accident reports published
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) and the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) have, separately, each published their review of maritime accidents in 2010.
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NewsClose call on mega-dredger’s first job
DEME’s brand new ''mega dredger'' Congo River was named at Zeebrugge on July 8 by the Belgian tennis champion Justine Henin and was working on its first job only six days later when it pulled up a 2,000 pound WWII mine.
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NewsDiesel fuel guidance from IMarEST
The introduction of both the EU Directive and subsequent UK legislation on sulphur reduction and the concomitant increase in biofuel content resulted in a challenge for commercial and leisure vessels in coastal and inland waters.
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NewsMaritime Skills Centre open for ideas
The newly launched Gosport Marine Skills Centre on the UK’s south coast has come about in next to no time, perhaps because there’s such need to see it work.
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NewsPiracy related torture is on the rise
A new trend is making the rising incidence of piracy in the waters off Somalia even more disturbing.
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NewsGovernment U-turn on UK coastguard cuts
The UK Government has partially backtracked on its radical plans to slash coastguard services, with Transport Secretary Philip Hammond telling the House of Commons that 10 centres would remain open 24 hours a day.
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NewsHistoric steam coaster returns to London
Londoners were able to witness history in the making yesterday as the world’s last remaining steam coaster made its return to the Royal Docks.
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NewsBarging about on the River
The Barge Driving Race on the River Thames has been run annually since 1975 and this year’s event saw 11 lighters (or punts) being rowed with the flood tide from Greenwich to Westminster.
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NewsUK’s largest lift crane commissioned
The largest lift capacity crane in Britain completed commissioning last week at Babcock’s Rosyth dockyard.
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NewsWill LEPs leap for marine businesses?
The UK government’s rhetoric about ‘localism’ covers a major drop in funding and the hope that business will pick up the pieces.
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NewsLegislation to cancel English port taxes
The UK Government has laid draft regulations to cancel the unfair backdated business rate bills faced by many port based businesses across England.
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NewsEPCSA launches with an ‘Added Dimension’
Europe is home to the most efficient Port Community Systems in the world and will play a vital role in the EC’s aspirations for trade facilitation through a ‘Single Window’, say new organisation the EPCSA.
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NewsAlsterwasser gets a second chance
The world’s first hybrid fuel cell propulsion passenger ship, Alsterwasser, is back in service on Hamburg’s rivers after being out of action for more than a year because of a fire.
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NewsFast patrol fleet guards Italian lakes
Nine new vessels designed by world famous racing boat driver and designer Fabio Buzzi and fully equipped with Raymarine electronics, have been delivered to the Guardia di Finanza.
