Industry News – Page 283
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NewsUnmanned 50 Knot Harbour Security Craft
Sentry, a fast unmanned reconnaissance and surveillance craft developed by QinetiQ, that brings together military design requirements with a compact waterjet propelled platform, was publicly demonstrated for the first time on QinetiQ''s stand at Defence Systems & Equipment International (DSEi) in London last month.
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NewsThermal Imaging for Calais' Port Security
The French cross-channel ferry Port of Calais saw more than 11m passengers through its facilities last year whilst freight traffic also increased by a remarkable 11.8% to nearly 2m trucks.
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NewsGurkhas Driving Port Vehicle Security
Security specialist Octavian Security has been appointed by the GBA Group to provide manned guarding services for a number of its vehicle import terminals across the UK.
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NewsBomb Threat Detection for Ports
Leicestershire UK based 3DX-Ray has produced a detailed technical brochure on its advanced portable x-ray system, TPXi-675, for bomb and threat detection in suspect packages.
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NewsUKHMA Autumn Seminar and Dinner
The UK Harbour Masters'' Association Autumn Seminar will take place at the IMarEST Conference Centre in London on 17 October. The programme has proved a challenge to finalise but the result offers one of the most interesting ranges of topics in recent years. The line up of speakers includes the ...
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NewsCardiff Celebrates Centenary of Queen Alexandra Dock
Associated British Ports'' (ABP) Port of Cardiff celebrated the centenary of Queen Alexandra Dock with an official tree planting ceremony last week and the opening of a special photographic exhibition featuring images from the past 100 years of port operations.
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NewsGiant Boxship Docks at Hamburg
At the beginning of September the new flagship of the Chinese shipping company COSCO Container Lines Ltd docked at the Port of Hamburg for the first time. The ''Cosco Asia'', with its slot capacity of 10,062 TEU, is the largest container ship to have entered the Port of Hamburg to ...
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NewsBatman Boat to Save the Planet
The revolutionary New Zealand biodiesel powerboat Earthrace arrived in Amsterdam last week as part of its European promotional tour sponsored by Deutsche-Med of Rostock, Germany.
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NewsSt Petersburg Hosts Ports and Shipbuilding Conference
Neva 2007, the 9th International Shipping, Shipbuilding, Ports and Offshore Energy Exhibition takes place on the 24th- through 27th of September at the Lenexpo Exhibition Complex in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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NewsNicola Turns Port Waters Green
The Port of London Authority' s (PLA) Nicola Jenkins has scooped an international award for showing European ports how to " up" their environmental game.
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Coastal Port Agency
Cory Brothers Shipping has been awarded a three year contract to provide agency services throughout the UK to coastal tanker operator James Fisher Everard, whose combined fleet will provide an anticipated additional 3,000 port calls per year.
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More Shortsea
The growing freight market between the UK’ s River Thames and the Continent was boosted last month by the introduction of a new dedicated ro-ro service between the Port of Tilbury and Zeebrugge in Belgium.
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NewsWounded Warriors Sail the Channel
At noon on 11 September, ten members of the British Limbless Ex-Service Men''s Association (BLESMA) and two participants from its American counterparts The Wounded Warrior Disabled Sports Project (WWDSP) embarked upon a nine day sailing trip across the English Channel.
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Britain's Best Maritime Technology Student
The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) will take an active role in finding Britain''s Best Maritime Technology Student when it hosts the judging of this category in the annual SET awards (Science, Engineering & Technology Student of the Year) on 20 September.
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NewsMost Powerful Engines in Shipping History
APL, the global container transportation company, has ordered eight MAN B& W 14K98ME-C7 engines, each generating a massive 84,280 kW or 115,000 BHP at 104 rpm, to power eight 10,000 TEU containerships from Korean builders.
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NewsMarseille Makes Big Box Plans
The Port of Marseille Authority (PMA) is planning to develop two more new container terminals at Fos, its base for east-west trades, with a combined capacity of two million teu per year. The PMA’ s recent board meeting approved the launch of technical and financial feasibility studies, which are due ...
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NewsA Hard Act to Follow
The UK Department for Transport and Maritime and Coastguard Agency are now advertising to recruit a successor to Robin Middleton, who is about to retire from the position of Secretary of State’ s Representative (SOSREP) which he has held for eight years.
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NewsShortsea Solution for Tour de France
The ill fated Tour de France kicked off in London this year, with time trials in the city centre and the first stage then proceeding from London to Canterbury.
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NewsGrub's Up the Upper Thames
The major UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’ s has collaborated with the Port of London Authority to trial the delivery of food to its stores by barge along the River Thames.
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News'Personal Everest' Sailing South
Geoff Holt, the quadriplegic sailor undertaking his ‘ Personal Everest’ challenge to sail around Great Britain solo in a small trimaran, is nearing the point at which he can turn south and head towards home in a voyage much delayed by the UK’ s worst ever summer weather.
