Industry News – Page 275
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NewsNew Pollution Combat Ship for German Coast
It has taken nearly two years to acquire, organise, convert, complete and outfit, but Germany''s latest marine pollution combat ship Luneplate was finally due into service after trials in July.
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New Survey Conference
Luneplate was launched in early June at the Heise Schiffsreparatur & Industrie Service shipyard in Bremerhaven.A two day conference to examine the future of hydrographic and offshore survey is being launched by TMS International Ltd in partnership with Intelligent Exhibitions Ltd. To be held in March 2007 at the National ...
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NewsSeparating the Cowboys from the Pirates
Global maritime security provider Securewest International has called on the leading maritime regulatory bodies and, if necessary, governments to implement an international maritime security services ''gold standard'' in a bid to halt the spread of unauthorised and inexperienced private security companies who may be carrying out dangerous or unlawful practices ...
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NewsHamburg Serves Up a Whopper
SMM 2006 is setting records in all areas, with the world' s largest shipbuilding event expecting 1,669 exhibiting companies from 50 countries to fill some 75,000m 2of exhibition space alongside a host of conferences and specialist events. The 22nd Shipbuilding, Machinery & Marine Technology International Trade Fair Hamburg will fill ...
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NewsUmoe's Long Term Strategy for Schat-Harding
PLANS by the Norwegian group Umoe Industri to merge its lifeboat and davit subsidiary Umoe Schat-Harding with Bergen based equipment manufacturer TTS Marine ASA have been cancelled. Umoe has called off the proposed all-share merger following a significant change in the shareholder profile of TTS.
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Conference Will Navigate the Water Framework Directive
PIANC, together with its partners in the Navigation Task Group on the Water Framework Directive, will host a conference on the EU''s Water Framework Directive and the issues it raises for ports, navigation and dredging in Brussels on 31 January 2007.
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DSB Acquires Yarmouth Shipping
International shipbrokers DSB Offshore have acquired the business of specialist tug broker Yarmouth Shipping Company Limited, which recently completed the sale of two 50 ton bollard pull tugs from BHP Billiton in Western Australia to Italian interests.
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NewsRenewables Nuked in UK Energy Review
In announcing its long awaited Energy Review last month, the British Government committed to extending the Renewables Obligation (RO) from 15% to 20% for green energy sources including wave, tidal and offshore wind power.
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Marine Society's 250th
Her Majesty The Queen was the principal guest last month when The Marine Society & Sea Cadets celebrated the 250th anniversary of the UK''s most enduring maritime charity. Speaking at the reception in Greenwich on board the Royal Navy''s amphibious assault ship HMS Albion, Vice Admiral Sir Tom Blackburn KCVO ...
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Multidocker Will Boost Throughput at Ridham Dock
The recent arrival of a new high-tech multi-purpose cargo handling crane promises to speed up throughput at the busy Kentish port of Ridham Dock in the UK. Purchased by Ridham Sea Terminals Ltd (RST) the new machine, a Swedish built Multidocker CH65C, started work at one of the three berths ...
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VTMS Wins Waterford Contract
Leicestershire based Vessel Traffic Management Systems (VTMS) is establishing an Irish base at Waterford Container Terminal in Belview after being awarded a maintenance contract by Port of Waterford.
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NewsGLAs Make 'The Case for eLoran'
Continuing the theme of operational efficiency in our coverage of the Trinity House Technical Open Day in Harwich last month, the General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) of the UK and Ireland have released The Case for eLoran.
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Boskalis Buys Cofra
Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster has boosted its 51% holding in geosynthetics for civil engineering specialist Cofra to full ownership. The acquisition strengthens Boskalis'' position in the global market for specialist soil improvement techniques. Cofra has concentrated on methods of soil improvement for the construction of infrastructure projects and ...
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SASMEX Sails Home
It identifies how enhanced Loran (eLoran) will secure the safe, low risk and cost effective mix of Aids to Navigation (AtoN) needed for the benefit and safety of all mariners around the British Isles.The Safety at Sea and Marine Equipment Exhibition (SASMEX), which Safety at Sea International magazine hosted for ...
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NewsEnvironmental Offset at New Ro-Ro Terminal
The DFDS Nordic Terminal Riverside, the new £ 35m development at Associated British Ports'' Port of Immingham was opened last month on the day which marked the 100th anniversary of the start of the construction of the Immingham Dock.
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News'Nomadic' Returns to Belfast Birthplace
History was made on the 15th of last month when the White Star Line tender Nomadic returned to Belfast 95 years after leaving the Harland & Wolff shipyard where it was built.
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Rising Seas Predicted
A report published by UK Environment Secretary David Milliband concludes that climate change poses an immediate threat to the European Union target of halting biodiversity loss by 2010.
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EWEA
Nomadic served as tender to its ill-fated big sister Titanic when the latter ship made its first and only call at Cherbourg on 10 April 1912. Nomadic ferried 172 first and second class passengers out of Cherbourg harbour to board Titanic, including John Jacob Astor, Benjamin Guggenheim and Margaret 'Unsinkable ...
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ABP EGM Votes 'Sell'
The sale of Associated British Ports Holdings PLC to the American led international consortium Admiral Acquisitions UK Limited was approved by 98.75% of the shares voted at an Extraordinary General Meeting last month. It was expected that dealings in ABPH shares on the London Stock Exchange would be suspended on ...
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NewsContainer Security Struggles for Standards
Governments and port authorities acknowledge that the 17 million cargo containers in use around the world are a weak link in national security arrangements. Importers/ exporters and manufacturers understand that poor container security poses a risk to the goods they contain. Yet because there are so many players in the ...
