Industry News – Page 286
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President Promotes Engineering
Maurice Storey, recently chief executive of the MCA and currently the 103rd president of IMarEST , will deliver a topical President''s Lecture in London on 11 October in which he will criticise the failure of successive British Governments to recognise the contribution of engineers and technologists to wealth creation and ...
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Dutch Shiprepair Cooperation
IMCA Group, the parent company of Amsterdam Ship Repair, has announced its decision to decline from all industrial activities and toconcentrate instead on real estate development. However, the present managers of the yard have confirmed that business will continue as usual under the old name of Shipdock, with which many ...
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EC Shipbuilding Aid Approved
The European Commission has approved a 27m scheme in Germany to provide innovation aid to shipbuilding. The scheme is the first of its kind to be approved after the entry into force on 1 January 2004 of the Commission’ s framework on state aid to shipbuilding, which introduced revised rules ...
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Offshore Upsurge at Lerwick
The offshore oil industry has contributed to a 5% increase in the volume of cargo handled at Lerwick Harbour in Shetland over the first half of 2005. The high level of industry activity saw 119 oil related vessels calling at Lerwick, up 30% on the same period in 2004, which ...
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NewsHamburg Research Ship Probes North Sea Ecology
Fifteen scientists and 20 crew members aboard the tough research vessel Gauss were recently involved in Germany''s annual month long check on the ecology of the North Sea.
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Mariners Reunited at LMGMA
Liverpool Maritime Graduates & Masters Association haslaunched a website at www. lmgma. co. uk which allows former and current students to enrole online as members, search for other members, catch up on LMGMA news and learn of forthcoming events. The site will establish a global network of maritime professionals who ...
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Anti-Corrosion Benefit for Commercial Vessel Operators
MICAD Marine , which provides real-time data collection and presentation systems for commercial vessel operators, has announced the inclusion of Vessel Corrosion Monitoring asstandard equipment on all of its MICAD Marine Systems .
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Participate in Shaping the Marine Bill
Industry, conservation groups and the public are being invited to give their views on a major piece of legislation which is intended to improve the management of Britain''s seas. The Government is committed to introducing a Marine Bill that will establish an integrated system for the streamlined planning, management and ...
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Help Mercy Ships Help New Orleans
A hospital ship that survived Hurricane Katrina is now providing essential relief to devastated communities along the US Gulf Coast. The Caribbean Mercy , which is run by the international charity Mercy Ships was berthed just north of Mobile, Alabama during the hurricane and survived without damage.
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Furuno Expands Presence
Japan''s Furuno marine electronics company has opened a fully owned subsidiary, Furuno Deutschland GmbH in Hamburg, which has taken over Furuno''s service and distribution activities within Germany, Austria and Switzerland from former distributor Ferropilot. The establishment of Furuno Deutschland together with the recent opening of Furuno Eurus in Russia strengthens ...
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First Commercial Order for New Futura
Things have moved so fast after the prototype development of Germany’ s new environmentally safe Futura Carrier river/sea vessel that the first commercial order has now been announced.
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Fairmount Heavy Transport Floats in Norway
Fairmount Heavy Transport NV has closed a $50m offering of new equity, the proceeds of which will be used to acquire the semi-submersible barges BOA 19 and BOA 20 from BOA Offshore AS of Norway as well as for general corporate purposes. The barges will be converted to self propelled ...
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NewsDockstavarvet Celebrates a Successful Century of Boat Building
Sweden''s Dockstavarvet is celebrating 100 years of operation this month with the east coast shipyard busily building another two pilot boats for the Danish Pilots . The sister craft will be the 22nd and 23rd pilot boats built by Dockstavarvet for the Danish Pilots and continue a lineage of pilot ...
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Water Transport Call for Papers
With European road transport becoming ever more stifled by congestion, coastal ships and inland transport by waterways could become a more viable alternative in some instances. The Royal Institution of Naval Architects has issued a call or papers for a conference on the subject which will take place in London ...
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NewsSalvors Warn on STS Restrictions
Salvage operations involving the ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of cargo and bunkers from tankers and other vessels should be exempt from new controls proposed by Spain and Mexico and now under consideration by the International Maritime Organization''s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC). The International Salvage Union (ISU) believes that the proposed ...
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Maritime Industries Mourn Lord Donaldson of Lymington
Maritime safety has lost one of its greatest and most influential advocates with the sudden passing earlier this month of Lord Donaldson of Lymington.
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Doubled Capacity at Russian Port
P& O Ports has reached agreement with joint venture partner Transportation Investment Holdings Limited (TIHL) to double the size of its port operations at Vostochny in Russia. Vostochny is located at the eastern end of the Trans Siberian Railway, which provides competitive transit times for cargo from Asia to Europe, ...
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Buyout Secures Testbank
A secondary buyout has delivered the Southampton UK based Testbank Ship Repair and Boiler Company to a team led by its managing director and technical director, with the financial support of many senior employees. The company employs 42 staff at its facility in the Western Docks, providing vessel repair, welding, ...
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Sea Scan in Aberdeen
America''s Marine Sonic Technology Limited (MSTL) has appointed RUCO Limited of Aberdeen as exclusive UK and Ireland sales representative for its Sea Scan PC sidescan sonar system. When connected to a GPS, the Sea Scan PC''s integrated navigation plotter records the area searched and the location of any objects of ...
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Change of Venue Lifts ShipRepair Exhibition
China’ s Cosco Shipyard Group and Malaysian Marine & Heavy Engineering have joined a growing list of new exhibitors attracted by the change of location for the ShipRepair & Conversion 2005 exhibition and conference. The event leaves London for the first time in its 13 year history to take place ...
