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NewsRNLI Launches 'Tamar' at London Boat Show
The RNLI officially unveiled its new Tamar Class all-weather lifeboat at the London Boat Show earlier this month.
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Babcock & Brown March on Maritime Europe
Acquisitive Australian investment group Babcock & Brown has bought into UK port operations with the purchase of PD Ports and into the growing European marine renewable energy market with the purchase of Energis.
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Boskalis' Boom Year
Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster has announced anticipated net profits for 2005 will be up by at least 80% on 2004, when the company posted a figure of ?32.3m. A large intake of orders late in the year, including a ?0.8bn project in Qatar, has doubled the order book ...
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NewsBox Terminal Gets Go Ahead
Associated British Ports (ABP) welcomed the Government decision last month to permit construction of the proposed Quay 2005 container terminal at the company''s northern Port of Hull. The two berth development would be built on the riverside in front of the present Alexandra Dock and will allow the port to ...
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Night Vision in Europe
Hampshire UK based Eurotask Ltd has been appointed European distributor for US based Night Vision Technologies Inc (NVTi) and will handle their range of night and day vision systems used for security and surveillance within the marine industries. The NVTi systems use a combination of thermal, Generation III light intensified, ...
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Fuel Conditioning Deal
ITT-Jabsco has signed an agreement with America''s Algae-X International for the sale and distribution of Algae-X fuel maintenance and management systems to the European marine industry. Algae-X is a range of fuel conditioning equipment which optimises the performance and reliability of diesel engines by keeping tanks clean and protecting injection ...
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NewsP&O Accepts Dubai Takeover Bid
The P& O ports and ferries group has agreed to a £ 3.3bn takeover bid from Dubai Ports World (DP World), which is owned by the Dubai government. P& O announced that it had received an unsolicited approach last month, and the ensuing offer of 443 pence per share in ...
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PLA Awarded PERS
The Port of London Authority has been awarded the EcoPorts Port Environmental Review System (PERS) certificate in recognition of its work to maintain high environmental standards. PERS is a European standard system designed by ports themselves to assist in complying with recommendations of the Environmental Code of Practice of the ...
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'Matching Marine Propulsion' Workshop
Ship and boat builders who want to know how best to match ship propulsion components and systems, perhaps avoiding costly mistakes, will take interest in the second international Matching Marine Propulsion Workshop, which starts in Vlaardingen in the Netherlands on 7 February 2006.
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More Traffic for HST
The Simon Group, which operates the Humber Sea Terminal (HST), has signed an agreement with A P Moller-Maersk Group subsidiary Norfolkline BV to supply port and terminal services between HST and Vlaardingen in Holland.
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EU Short Sea Focus
Short sea shipping has been identified as a sector for attention by EU environment commissioner Stavros Dimas. Alongside ship building, Mr Dimas believes new legislation for Europe''s maritime industries is necessary under his marine environment strategy aimed at cleaning up Europe''s territorial waters by 2021.
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Moor Care Needed
The London P& I Club has warned of the potentially fatal consequences of failing to observe the highest levels of care and attention, on board and ashore, during the mooring and unmooring of ships. In the latest issue of its StopLoss Bulletin, the Club highlights a case in which a ...
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Merchant Shipping Notices
The following Merchant Shipping Notices and Notes have been published recently by the UK''s Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) - an executive agency of the Department for Transport.
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MICAD Moves Online
Marine aftermarket products manufacturer MICAD Marine Specialty Products (MMSP) has launched the website www.MICADSHOP. com to make its range available to boat and ship owners worldwide. A debut product on MICADSHOP is a Valu-Brite 17in monitor with a footprint occupying the same helm space as a 15in monitor.
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Kwant Controls' Future
Dutch nautical instrumentation and control systems specialist Stork-Kwant, which was taken over through a management buy-out in January 2004, has changed its name to Kwant Controls BV with effect from the first day of last month.
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NewsNew Type Tunnel Thruster Debut
The first commercial application of a new type of tunnel thruster technology is being deployed on a UT 712 CD anchor handler currently under construction at Aker Yards Soviknes for Olympic Shipping of Norway.
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RingProp Cops Award
RingProp PLC''s innovative ringed propeller for outboard motors received Special Mention in the Machinery, Propulsion, Electrical & Mechanical Systems and Fittings category from the international jury for the DAME 2005 Awards handed out at METS in Amsterdam last month. The Jury Report stated, ''The RingProp from RingProp Trading Ltd of ...
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NewsOutlook Positive at CEDA Dredging Days
The Central Dredging Association (CEDA) made a successful transition along with Europort last month when CEDA Dredging Days 2005 was held alongside the newly relocated Europort Maritime exhibition in Rotterdam.
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Pollution Preparedness Bridges Historical Tensions
Historical animosities have been set aside to deliver the EU funded Summeri Project, which unites three major Gulf of Finland maritime training centres as one network capable of both training personnel and responding to regional marine oil pollution events.
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NewsNew Series for German Sea Rescue Body
The second in a series of new 10.1 m patrol boats for the German sea rescue service DGzRS has gone into service out of Glowe on the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
