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NewsVT Halmatic 'Streamlining' Shuts Steel Division
A major strategic review underway at UK boat builders VT Halmatic and a rationalising of its product range has seen the closure of the company''s Steel Division as the focus shifts to composite built military patrol craft. The company has withdrawn from participation in the Seawork 2007 exhibition and expects ...
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NewsRoyal Send-Off for Research Vessel
HRH The Princess Royal formally named the UK''s new £ 40m royal research ship RRS James Cook in a ceremony held earlier this month at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Southampton.
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NewsWWF Calls for Protection of UK 'Marine Hotspots'
A WWF report out last month identifies for the first time, the most important marine locations in the UK in urgent need of protection. The wealth of sea life existing off UK shores and surrounding waters is gradually being degraded by the impacts of human activity. According to the ...
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Big Ship Salvage at ISU Members' Day
The salvage problems surrounding ultra-large vessels will provide the timely focus for the International Salvage Union''s Fourth Associate Members'' Day meeting in London on 7 March.The meeting will be attended by representatives of a high proportion of the ISU''s 43 associate members and 53 full members.
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NewsNorway Goes It Alone on Ballast Water
Norway is to implement strict controls on ballast water management during 2007, applying the standards set down in the IMO Convention on ballast water to ships calling at Norwegian ports, even though it may be many years before the convention comes into force internationally, warns Wikborg Rein, Norwegian maritime law ...
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NewsOcean Business Offers Demo at Sea
Ocean Business 2007 (The ocean technology training and procurement forum) brings a new ocean technology exhibition with in-classroom and on-water training and demonstrations to the national Oceanography Centre in Southampton UK on 27-29 March. An offshore survey conference will take place alongside the exhibition, in which over 100 companies will ...
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RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 the Last Great Liner
Since 1969 QE2 has sailed over three million miles, been a troop ship in the Falklands War and had her main engines changes from steam to diesel.
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Maritime Events & Training Directory
The Maritime Events & Training Directory is unique in that it is the only one of its kind in the maritime industry.
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Ports and Harbours of Northumberland
This book covers the sometimes turbulent history of the ports and harbours along the Northumberland coast, from its simple fishing harbours to the great industrial harbours built on coal export, and reflects on their Industrial Archaeology.
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Lost Treasure Ships of the Northern Seas
The seas of northern Europe are some of the most heavily travelled in history and there are literally thousands of wrecks lying in quite shallow water.
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SEEDA's Hoist Wight On
A technologically advanced new hoist for the expanded apron at East Cowes UK is now in operation. The 10m wide hoist dock and crane is suitable for transporting both blades for wind turbines as required by Isle of Wight based Vesta Blades (UK) Ltd, and large yachts of up ...
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Shipping on the Humber - The South Bank
The River Humber has been used for commercial navigation for centuries and remains today as one of the busiest stretches of waterway in Britain.
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Just Off the Swale - The story of the barge building village of Conyer
The peaceful waterside village of Conyer nestles at the head of the North Kent creek which shares its name, situated to the south of The Swale and the Isle of Sheppey it has a timeless charm of a rural idyll.
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Conference
A conference on Water Status Monitoring under the WFD will be held in Lille, France on 12-14 March 2007.
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NewsBallast Water Breakthrough at Greenwich
The movement of organisms via the transport of water from one ecosystem to another can lead to serious ecological, health and financial consequences in the host environment.
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'White Knight'Buys GL
hamburg based classification society Germanischer Lloyd has been rescued from the hostile takeover advances of French rival Bureau Veritas by local tycoon Gunter Herz, who has now acquired over 95% of GL''s shares.
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Wartsila Buys Schiffko
The Wartsila Corporation completed the acquisition of German ship design company Schiffko shortly after Christmas. Shiffko specialises in the planning and design of ships, specialising in the container, research and offshore vessel market sectors. It also provides consultancy and project management services for ship owners and shipbuilders.
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Kalmar Buys a Ferrari
Global handling equipment provider Kalmar Industries has acquired Italy''s CVS Ferrari Group, strengthening its market position and service capabilities in Southern Europe and other Mediterranean markets.
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NewsStudents Lay Up Skills for the Future
Over 400 children aged thirteen and fourteen from fifteen schools on the Isle of Wight took part in a project last month to study boat design and create their own catamaran. The aim of the project was to introduce glass fibre and all its properties to young people using a ...
