Key Deals – Page 176
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NewsRates error behind Goole terminal closure
A recent casualty of the UK Government’s retrospective rates bills levied on port businesses, port and stevedoring agency Scotline Terminal Goole (STG), was caused by government incompetence, as it has emerged that the £701,000 bill that forced them into liquidation was a mistake.
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NewsUK Budget promises £60m for ports
UK chancellor Alistair Darling announced Government funding of up to £60m for the development of port sites to meet the needs of offshore wind turbine manufacturers looking to locate new facilities in the UK.
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NewsTsunami early warning system for Cyprus
A new offshore sensor system to help detect and provide early warnings of tsunamis in the eastern Mediterranean Sea is being developed.
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NewsUK Marine Industries Strategic Framework launched
Ian Lucas, the UK’s Minister for Business issued a call to action to the nation’s marine industries last month to collaborate on their common goal of strengthening this sector’s global market position over the next 10 years.
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NewsEvolutionary concept for Hamburg terminal
Hamburg Port Authority jury has just awarded Royal Haskoning first place in a competition to create a concept for the potential development of the port’s Steinwerder terminal.
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NewsChanges to UK SAR helicopter coverage
Changes to the UK’s search and rescue helicopter services are on the cards following the selection of the Soteria consortium as preferred bidder for a £6bn 25 year contract.
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NewsFast emerging wind industry blows into Poland
The annual European Wind Energy Conference & Exhibition (EWEC 2010) takes place this year in Warsaw, Poland, on 20 to 23 April.
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Valeport down under
UK hydrographic and oceanographic instrumentation manufacturer Valeport has signed a new distributor agreement with Swathe Services Australia.
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Training academy sponsored
Wilhelmsen Ships Service is supporting the work of the Nautical Technical Training Academy (NTTA) by providing a range of the company’s Unitor branded safety equipment, including a brand new liferaft which will be used in the academy’s crew training facility to teach the Basic Safety course.
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Year of the Seafarer
International maritime welfare charity the Sailors’ Society is backing the IMO Year of the Seafarer campaign with a new fundraising drive which is asking for just £1 for every one of the 375,000 seafarer the charity aims to support in 2010.
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Research institute grows
The UK’s National Subsea Research Institute (NSRI) has added two new member companies. Kongsberg Maritime, which is headquartered in Aberdeen and Newcastle based Wellstream International bring NSRI’s industry membership to 17 in less than a year since its launch.
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Maritime toy story
London’s National Maritime Museum will launch a free admission ‘Toy Boats’ exhibition on 1 May, featuring miniature ocean liners, toy paddle steamers, tin battleships and clockwork submarines alongside games, catalogues and photographs all produced in Europe between 1850 and 1950.
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Cherbourg in the loop
The Chanel Islands company Huelin-Renouf Shipping adds the Normandy Port of Cherbourg this month to the lifeline freight link it operates between the Channel Islands and the UK, with a weekly visit to Cherbourg en route for Southampton.
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Jaguar goes to sea
Vehicle logistics services provider Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has renewed a contract with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to ship its vehicles from the United Kingdom to North America and Oceania.
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Baltic bounces back
With container traffic to and from Russia via Hamburg picking up again, growing demand for feeder transport capacity has prompted the launch of an additional service between the Ports of Hamburg and St Petersburg.
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Feeder from Hamburg
The French shipping company CMA CGM has started operating a new feeder service between the Port of Hamburg and the Danish ports of Fredericia and Copenhagen, as well as Halmstad in Sweden and the Baltic Sea port of Szczecin in Poland.
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‘PlanningBlog’ launch
PlanningBlog is intended to be interactive, with readers encouraged to share their views on how the built environment should develop. It is available at: www.brodies.com/publications/blogs
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Three into one at BMT
The international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy, BMT Group, is consolidating its environmental and maritime software service with the merger of three companies.
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Rapid barge deployment
When Civil & Coastal Construction (Pty) Ltd of South Africa required a split hopper barge urgently for works deepening the Ben Schoeman Basin in Cape Town harbour, they contacted Baars BV of Sliedrecht in the Netherlands.
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NewsMore Meercats emerge with company move
Seawork exhibitor Meercat Workboats Ltd is gearing up to deliver an expanded range of craft to shorter lead times following the move of their production facility to the historic No5 Boat Shop at Trafalgar Wharf in Porchester UK.
