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    MacGregor Heads to Kone

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Kone Corporation has bought MacGregor from Industri Kapital and Gambro AB forapproximately ? 186 million.

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    Small Ships Now Online

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Lockheed Martin's vessel is based on the design of SLICE, a vessel the company designed, built and tested for America's Office of Naval Research. It takes SWATH technology one step further by converting the twin hull SWATH into a four hulled SLICE. The patented design breaks the two long submerged ...

  • Turning the present site of Thames Craft Dry Docking Services into more yuppie flats would have a detrimental effect on the rivers support services.
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    Development Threat to River Support Services

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    One of the last working boatyards on London''s River Thames is threatened by development.

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    Long Running Maritime Charity

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Opportunities to run with Paula Radcliffe and simultaneously support seafarers and their families are still available to participants in next spring''s Flora London Marathon . Those running and raising sponsorship on behalf of the maritime charity King George''s Fund for Sailors (KGFS) will benefit sailors who served in WWII, orphaned ...

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    New On HIT List

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Global power generation company International Power has signed a term agreement with Associated British Ports to use the new £ 44.5 million coal facility being built by extending the Humber International Terminal (HIT) at ABP''s Port of Immingham (see MJ September 2004, page 25).

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    Seafarers UK Pledges £100,000 for Tsunami Sufferers

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    UK based maritime charity Seafarers UK is donating £ 100,000 towards rebuilding the seafaring communities affected by the Tsunami disaster, on the Indian and Sri Lankan coasts.

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    Wallenius Goes Green

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Shipping and logistics operators Wallenius Wilhelmsen has become the first non-container carrier shipping group to join the Clean Cargo Group , a global consortium of multinational manufacturers, shippers and carriers whose aim is to promote cleaner and more environmentally sustainable transportation. The Group is currently at work developing an Environmental ...

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    Fos Box Rise

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Container throughput at the French Port of Marseilles-Fos hasrisen by 9% through the first ten months of 2004 for a total of 765,000 teu. East-west trade was up by 10% to 492,000 teu while north-south trades via Marseilles improved to 8%, exceeding 272,000 teu. After a slow start to the ...

  • Naval work for Elsflether Werft.
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    Elsflether Stays Busy With Small Ship Work

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    German small ship repair and conversion centre Elsflether Werft on the Weser has seen its slipways full of late with a variety of small ships in for work ranging from routine maintenance and repair to complex engine exchange.

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    Hamburg Booming

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    By the beginning of December 2004, the Port of Hamburg had already matched the previous year''s record cargo handling volume of 106,283 million tons and was heading for a year end figure of approximately 115 million tons, an increase of 8.5%.

  • The S/S Nomadic is seen alongside in Le Havre on New Years Day 2005. Photo courtesy of Thierry Dufournaud of the French Titanic Society.
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    Help Save Titanic's Tender

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast has added its name to a growing online petition to save the Titanic ''s tender S/S Nomadic from the breaker. The illustrious ''Mothership of the Titanic '', which carried John Jacob Astor, Benjamin Guggenheim, Margaret ''Unsinkable Molly'' Brown and 169 other First and ...

  • A new lease of life for Aue.
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    Twenties Motor Launch Restored in Hamburg

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    A new lease of life has been given to a 75 year-old Alster motor launch after five years of restoration carried out by an employment and skill training group in the German port city of Hamburg.

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    Hurricane Season Necessitates Heavy Lift by Bisso

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    America''s Bisso Marine Co Inc has completed the successful salvage of a 105 Class Liftboat from 258ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico. The liftboat, which was believed to have sunk in much shallower water in the mid 1980''s, was discovered to be on top of a 20in pipeline ...

  • The RNLIs new Tamar class lifeboats is seen undergoing pre-production self-righting tests.
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    Scotland's First RNLI 'Tamar'

    2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

    A new design of lifeboat, known as the Tamar class, has been allocated to the RNLI Peterhead Lifeboat Station , making it the first station and crew in Scotland to operate this class of all weather lifeboat.

  • RNLI Bronze Medal for Gallantry winner Aileen Jones, also seen at the helm of the Porthcawl lifeboat.
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    RNLI Lifeboat Woman Awarded Gallantry Medal

    2004-12-01T00:00:00Z

    The RNLI has announced that Porthcawl helmsman Aileen Jones is to be awarded the Institution''s Bronze Medal for Gallantry for her part in the rescue of two fishermen on August 24, 2004. Aileen is the first lifeboat woman in 116 years to be given such an accolade, the last medal ...

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    Port of Koper Coping Better

    2004-12-01T00:00:00Z

    The Slovenian Port of Koper , which receives some 2,000 ship calls per year, has installed a Transas AIS Network System procured by the Slovenian Maritime Directorate . The new system covers the whole of the Slovenian coastline and helps operators to observe the traffic situation not only within the ...

  • WaterMota Ltds Mike Beacham and the Williams Shipping Groups Philip Williams on the Daewoo stand at Maritime Rotterdam last month.
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    Daewoo Deal Done in Rotterdam

    2004-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Two British companies travelled to Rotterdam Maritime last month to complete the sale of two Daewoo marine engines by South Devon based WaterMota Ltd to Williams Marine & Port Services Ltd ofPembroke Port in Wales. The eight cylinder, 15 litre Daewoo V158TIH engines will re-power Williams'' 19m Multi-cat type vessel ...

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    Glow In the Dark Online

    2004-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Beele Engineering BV of Aalten in the Netherlands has totally renovated its website www. beele. com to now display practical applications of its marine fire prevention and evacuation safety equipment in typical environments such as construction and shipbuilding.

  • A diver using a UMC Mini Pamper adapted to underwater cleaning.
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    UMC Goes Into Hull Cleaning

    2004-12-01T00:00:00Z

    UMC International Plc have decided to launch a range of hull cleaning equipment based on the huge global interest shown in their Mini Pamper hull cleaning machine, which features technology adapted to underwater cleaning. Its advanced cleaning mechanism has scrub pressure control, allowing the diver to ensure only the required ...

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    Barcelona Sees Shortsea Future

    2004-12-01T00:00:00Z

    The Spanish Port of Barcelona is focusing on growing shortsea traffic and has allocated part of its ongoing expansion for a dedicated terminal to accommodate the sector. Port authority chairman Joaquim Coello told a recent shortsea conference in Barcelona that the creation of new port capacity, alongside economic and strategic ...