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NewsFresh rubber for RNLI Flood Rescue Team
Tyre giant Goodyear, well known for its own commitment to safety and innovation, is sponsoring the UK’ s Royal National Lifeboat Institution’ s (RNLI) Flood Rescue Team by funding specialist training and equipment.
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NewsBiggest boat yet for German coastal police
The biggest and most powerful patrol boat ever built for Germany’ s river and coastal police has gone into what promises to be particularly active service out of Schleswig Holstein.
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NewsBIFA supports Cameron on UK port rates solution
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has this week come out in support of HM Opposition Leader David Cameron’ s recent remarks at the 1 May meeting at Birkenhead Docks on Merseyside, where Mr Cameron announced that he is backing the campaign to address the financial crisis at UK ports.
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Terminal tackles terrorism
The DP World Southampton container terminal has achieved Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) status from Her Majesty’ s Revenue & Customs. This status will be recognised across all Member States. The introduction of AEO status is the EU response to the need to secure international supply chains and the introduction of ...
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Terminal's early retirement
The UK’ s leading container port is retiring one of the world’ s oldest box terminals in the face of reduced traffic volume. Landguard Terminal at the Port of Felixstowe had been operational for more than 40 years when the last remaining services were transferred to Trinity Terminal last month. ...
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Dragon Boat Challenge
Companies from the shipping industry are invited to participate in the Sailors’ Society Dragon Boat Challenge, which will be held on Saturday 27 June at Dorney Lake near Eton UK. The venue is the site for the 2012 Olympic rowing events. Teams comprise ten rowers and a drummer, with no ...
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Marine construction receivers
Trimble has introduced two new Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers designed specifically for marine construction applications. The Trimble SPS361 and Trimble SPS461 GPS dedicated marine heading receivers deliver both precise GPS heading together with Differential GPS (DGPS) or Real Time Kinematic (RTK) positioning. When used with Trimble HYDROpro marine software, ...
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Fire safe sealing site
The Netherlands’ Beele Engineering BV has launched a website for its fire safe sealing solutions for metallic and plastic pipes. Visitors to www.rise-nofirno.com will find a full overview of the Rise/Nofirno and Rise/Ultra systems, which can effectively seal combined penetrations for metal and plastic pipes as well as cables. Certificates ...
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Cows mooved from mud
Two small hovercraft operated by local volunteers from the Burnham-on-Sea Area Rescue Boat (BARB) were involved in the successful rescue last month of seven cows which were trapped in mud at low tide in Somerset UK. Five fire crews, a Land Rover, a tractor, mats and ropes were also deployed ...
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NewsRecord numbers defy downturn at Nor-Shipping
Facing a steep cyclical downturn, growing concerns about the marine environment and new security threats, the global shipping industry faces significant challenges. But with record numbers of exhibitors scheduled to attend, Nor-Shipping 2009, in Oslo on 9 to 12 June, is shaping up to be the most important industry exhibition ...
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NewsPortsmouth plans to say Hooray Henry!
The annual ten day Portsmouth Arts Festival in the UK will this year culminate in a Tudor extravaganza called ‘ Ghost Ship: A Pageant for Portsmouth’ , to mark the anniversary of Henry VIII’ s accession to the throne and when work started on his flagship, the Mary Rose.
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NewsMJ goes all a Twitter!
Readers can now keep up to date with the latest news from Maritime Journal in the social networking site Twitter!
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NewsAll-Energy is mega-watts on in Aberdeen
The All-Energy exhibition and conference is the UK’ s largest event devoted to renewable energy. The ninth in the annual series will be held in Aberdeen on 20 and 21 May 2009.
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NewsBelgian stone dumper hijacked off Somalia
There has been no contact with the Belgian side stone dumping vessel Pompei since it was captured by pirates on Saturday off the coast of Somalia.
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NewsNo strain as Andromeda visits Southampton
DP World Southampton, the UK’ s second largest container terminal, set a record for the largest container ship it has ever handled when the CMA CGM Andromeda arrived at the weekend as part of its inaugural deployment between Asia and Europe.
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News'Tenacious' helicopter makes tall ship rescue
Falmouth Coastguard in the UK scrambled an RAF helicopter, based at RNAS Culdrose, to rescue a tall ship crew member at the vessel’ s location some 100 miles from Lands End last weekend.
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News'Explorer' sinking investigation prompts safety review
A decision by the master of the cruise ship Explorer to enter an ice field in Antarctic waters led to the vessel being lost, according to the conclusions of an investigation conducted by the Liberian Registry in cooperation with the Chilean Navy.
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NewsNew pilot boat raises Milford Haven service provision
Milford Haven Port Authority has welcomed delivery of its new £ 1.3m pilot boat, as shipping levels at the port are set to reach record breaking levels this year.
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NewsBorn again trawler heads to Antarctica
Now in service with the Brazilian Navy as a polar research vessel after a second major conversion is the American built former offshore supply ship Almirante Maximiano.
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News'Iron Lady' gets another five year makeover
What is claimed to be the world’ s biggest coal fired, steam icebreaker still afloat, the Stettin, has undergone its regular five year check at Hamburg’ s Blohm + Voss Repair Shipyard and been declared fit for further service.
