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  • Sonardyne’s Sentinel sonar head is seen on a seabed deployment frame.
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    US Navy extends swimmer detection security system

    2010-03-16T15:11:00Z

    Sonardyne International has sold and delivered additional Sentinel Intruder Detection Sonar Systems for the US Navy. They will be used for the Integrated Swimmer Detection Program managed by the Naval Underwater Warfare Center (NUWC) in Newport RI.

  • MCA operated Sikorsky S-92 SAR helicopters. Photo: MCA
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    Changes to UK SAR helicopter coverage

    2010-03-15T18:33:00Z

    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.

  • EWEC exhibitor Dong Energy is involved in a number of offshore wind farms such as Horns Rev. Photo courtesy of Dong Energy.
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    Fast emerging wind industry blows into Poland

    2010-03-15T18:30:00Z

    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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    Ports of Scotland 2010

    2010-03-15T18:24:00Z

    Published by Maritime Publications Ltd Paperback, 260 pages Price £17.00

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    Camera on the Clyde

    2010-03-15T18:23:00Z

    By Ann Glen and Bruce Peter Published by Ferry Publications Email: sales@gazellebooks.co.uk Hardback, 120 paqes Price: £18.00

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    Valeport down under

    2010-03-13T12:24:00Z

    UK hydrographic and oceanographic instrumentation manufacturer Valeport has signed a new distributor agreement with Swathe Services Australia.

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    Training academy sponsored

    2010-03-13T12:11:00Z

    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

    2010-03-13T12:03:00Z

    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

    2010-03-13T11:57:00Z

    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

    2010-03-13T11:49:00Z

    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

    2010-03-13T11:44:00Z

    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

    2010-03-13T11:44:00Z

    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

    2010-03-13T11:37:00Z

    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

    2010-03-13T11:32:00Z

    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

    2010-03-13T11:29:00Z

    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

    2010-03-13T11:25:00Z

    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

    2010-03-13T11:02:00Z

    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.

  • Meercat Workboats’ new gantry cranes lifting the first hull to be produced at their new Trafalgar Wharf site.
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    More Meercats emerge with company move

    2010-03-12T15:04:00Z

    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.

  • A large number of workboats have been deployed for the Felixstowe South Reconfiguration works.
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    Band of workboats depart Felixstowe

    2010-03-11T10:50:00Z

    The first phase of the Felixstowe South Reconfiguration (FSR) is almost complete, apart from the land-side works, and all the various dredgers, hopper barges, survey vessels and ancillary craft have now left the port.

  • The Wärtsilä/IMS advanced jack-up crane vessel design for constructing offshore wind farms has been ordered by RWE Innogy, Germany.
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    Wind farm jack-ups to Wärtsilä-IMS design

    2010-03-11T10:50:00Z

    Wärtsilä, in consortium with IMS Ingenieurgesellschaft GmbH, has been engaged by RWE Innogy, the renewable energy arm of the German utility company RWE, as its designer to provide the basic design and consultancy services for a jack up crane vessel.