Industry News – Page 283
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Scientist Heads IMarEST
The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) has appointed the first scientist to ever serve as President.
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Kalmar's American Expansion
Scandinavian based cargo handling equipment supplier Kalmar Industries has acquired the assets and business of America''s Virginia based Port Equipment Service Inc (PES).
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Vetus Auctioned
Dutch marine equipment manufacturer and supplier Vetus Den Ouden has been acquired by ABN AMRO Capital, the private equity business of ABN AMRO, in a competitive auction.
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Camper in Turkey
Camper & Nicholson Marina Investments Ltd (CNMI), floated as an AIM-listed specialist marina investment company in January, has made its first acquisition.
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The Irish Boats Volume 2
For hundreds of years ships have piled the treacherous waters of the St Georges Channel and Irish Sea while trading between Ireland and Britain.
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Guide to Port Entry 2007/2008
Guide to Port Entry'' is a comprehensive information resource available to the shipping industry.
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Tanker Barges on the Humber Waterways
The introduction of iron tanks within barges in the early twentieth century enabled much heavier cargoes to be carried on the Humber waterways, including the liquids such as coal tar or vegetable oils and, by the 1920s petrol.
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NewsNATO Warships Keep the Seabed Clean
When three Dutch fishermen were killed by a bomb they picked up in their net two years ago, it emphasised the danger still posed by unexploded ordnance on the seabed
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NewsSEEDA Secures Marine Industry Development Sites
The South East of England Development Agency (SEEDA) has appointed LDA Design as master planners for the former West Medina Mills site in Newport, a significant river frontage location and part of the ongoing Cowes Waterfront Initiative on the Isle of Wight.
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NewsUK Stakeholders Plan Marine Protected Areas
Finding Sanctuary, a project that aims to create a network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) around the South West coat of the UK, held a Regional Workshop late last month in Exeter.
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NewsProgress Knocks Locks Smocks for Century
It''s the end of an era for lock keepers all along the River Thames who hung up their old uniforms and welcomed a new look at the end of last month.
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Seawork Adds Hydro Survey Conference
Coastal and Ports Surveying, a new one day conference for hydrographers, port and harbour authorities and engineers, to be held at Seawork International in Southampton on 14th June 2007, has been welcomed by the Chair of The Hydrographic Society UK.
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MJ Goes Live Online
A new online edition of Maritime Journal was lunched at the Ocean Business 2007 exhibition and conference in Southampton UK last month.
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NewsRecord New Lifeboat Order from RNLI
Devonport UK based DML have recently secured a contract from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) for what is described as the largest single contract ever awarded for lifeboat construction.
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NewsDublin Pilots Take Delivery of Newbuild
Cork based commercial boatbuilders Safehaven Marine have delivered a new Interceptor 42 ‘ All Weather Pilot Vessel’ to the Port of Dublin.
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NewsGreen Light For Offshore Gas/Wind Co-Development
Eclipse Energy UK plc has been granted consent to construct and operate the Ormonde offshore wind farm and to generate and export electricity from the adjacent Ormonde Gas Fields development, thus completing the series of principal permissions necessary to construct the world''s first co-development of offshore gas and wind.
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NewsRenewables Showcase Bursting at the Seams
If records are made to be broken then All-Energy ''07, the UK''s largest renewable energy exhibition and conference, looks set to shatter all the glass in its trophy case when the event returns to the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre on 23-24 May.
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NewsPan-European Coastal Flooding Project Launched
A pioneering EU funded project to promote the innovative use of multi-national maritime search and rescue (SAR) resources when dealing with major coastal inundation, caused by events such as tsunamis and tidal surges, was launched in London last month.
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NewsDragon Boats Battle for Charity
The British & International Sailor''s Society (BISS), a charity operating in almost 100 ports worldwide, has launched the BISS Dragon Boat Challenge 2007 fundraising event. Sponsored by BP Shipping and Cargill, the spectacular team event will take place on Dorney Lake at Eton UK, venue for the 2012 Olympic rowing ...
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NewsAberdeenshire Support for RNLI
Aberdeenshire Council in Scotland has solidified its support for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution with a visit from chief executive Alan Campbell and a £ 1,000 donation.
