Industry News – Page 249
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Shortsea reports available
Freight by Water member Peter Barker from PRB Associates published his ninth annual report on UK shortsea freight, ro-ro and lo-lo capacity during the fourth quarter of 2008 and last month published the first edition of the Irish freight, ro-ro and lo-lo capacity report. Both reports provide a comprehensive market ...
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Canal regeneration awarded
The Spiers Locks project in Glasgow’ s canal corridor has won the British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA) award for Strategy and Masterplanning. The ongoing regeneration of the canal corridor is recognised as key to the transformation of the north of the city. The Spiers Lock Masterplan focuses on sustainable design ...
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Dredging Cloudburst
Andrew Scott’ s Cloudburst has accepted appointment as UK sales representative for Italian dredger manufacturer Italdraghe Sp A. Cloudburst will represent Italdraghe’ s full range of cutter suction dredgers and dredging pumps as well as accessory dredging equipment such as backflow pipelines, riddling plant and support vessels. Italdraghe is exhibiting ...
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Diesel academy opens
The new MAN Diesel training centre, the PrimeServ Academy, was inaugurated at Saint-Nazaire in France earlier this month. Located in the Saint-Nazaire plant, the PrimeServ Academy showcases diesel engine best practice and will provide expert diesel engine maintenance and operational training. A natural evolution of the Diesel School, which has ...
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News'Simon Stevin' will be the world's largest rockdumping vessel
Belgium’ s Jan De Nul Group has the biggest dredging vessels in the world in its fleet. The very large self-propelled seagoing rock cutter dredgers JFJ De Nul, Leonardo da Vinci and Marco Polo can tackle the hardest and most difficult soil conditions during shore approach dredging works.
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NewsTrinity House introduces its first LED Light Vessel
Trinity House, the general lighthouse authority for England, Wales, the Channel Isles and Gibraltar, is about to commission its first LED Light Vessel (LV), set for duty on the Varne station in the English Channel. This is the first major development in LV technology since the distinctive red vessels were ...
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News'Napoli' recovery chains in place
The operation to remove the stern section of the container vessel ‘ MSC Napoli’ from the UK’ s Devon coast has reached its second milestone. Following a successful test, the project team, led by Global Response Maritime B.V. of The Netherlands, has completed positioning all 12 lifting chains under the ...
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NewsEurope can lead a wind power world
‘ Wind energy can replace a large proportion of the polluting and finite fuels we currently rely on, said EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, at the opening session of the European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition (EWEC) in Marseilles last month. ‘ It makes good sense to invest in indigenous ...
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NewsGeoff Holt takes on his Personal Atlantic
Personal Everest yachtsman Geoff Holt is planning to take on the Personal Atlantic challenge next winter in which he will sail across the Atlantic Ocean, becoming the first quadriplegic sailor to do so. The 3,000 mile voyage, in which he will be unassisted in every aspect of sailing, will raise ...
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NewsEurope's IAPH Conference arrives in Genoa
Under the highly topical banner of ‘ Oriented to the market, Open to the future’ , the 26th International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) World Port Conference will focus on understanding how the challenges of global climate change will affect the port industry. Taking place in Genoa, Italy, from ...
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NewsFree Nautical Almanac about to go live
The Wiley Nautical Almanac is now available for viewing as a demonstration video. Log onto wileyalmanac.com to see the video demonstration of Wiley Nautical’ s new digital almanac, which has been in development for 15 months. The Wiley Nautical Almanac will be available to all as a free download from ...
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NewsPort of Kiel begins box handling
Regular container handling began in the German Port of Kiel last month with the arrival in the port’ s Ostuferhafen of the first one hundred 20ft containers from Riga on board the MS “ Vera Rambow” .
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NewsRobotic fish will fight pollution
Another level in artificial intelligence is to add its weight to the fight against marine pollution. Robotic fish are being developed that will not only detect potentially hazardous pollutants in the water, such as leaks from vessels in port or underwater pipelines, but will also communicate their findings with each ...
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NewsInterspill 'Working Together' with the IMO
With the spill industry offering more prevention, better response and serving wider markets across Europe and the world, the need for a platform to demonstrate the strengths of the industry and to communicate its message is fulfilled by the Interspill 2009 Conference and Exhibition.
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NewsMCA Scotland grounds SAR helicopters
The UK’ s Maritime & Coastguard Agency was advised last Friday by its helicopter contractor CHC that all four Coastguard S92 helicopters operating out of Stornoway and Shetland have been grounded pending further advice from the relevant safety authorities.
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NewsPort of Hamburg boosts inland waterway box transport
The German Port of Hamburg achieved record results last year for internal waterway shipping, with container transport by environmentally friendly inland vessels growing by a dramatic 29%.
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NewsArabian Gulf gets its Work Boat show
With a high percentage of the world''s dredging fleet and ancillary workboats filling the region in recent years it is surprising that the Arabian Gulf has not had its own dedicated workboat exhibition and conference. The unlikely void has now been filled by Baird Publications, which launches Work Boat Gulf ...
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NewsOcean Business back with a bang
Ocean Business 2009 brings the ocean technology industry back to the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton UK for an event which has doubled in size compared to its last staging in 2007.
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Experts meet to discuss aggregates challenges
The European Marine Sand and Gravel Group (EMSAGG) is hosting what it describes as ''an exceptional conference in Rome, Italy on 7 and 8 May 2009.
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NewsGermans launch first of two SWATH ships for Customs
Germany''s Nordseewerke (NSW) Shipyard has launched Helgoland, the first of two unique 50m SWATH offshore patrol vessels for international Customs service in the German Bight and North Sea.
