Industry News – Page 295
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NewsHamburg Serves Up a Whopper
SMM 2006 is setting records in all areas, with the world' s largest shipbuilding event expecting 1,669 exhibiting companies from 50 countries to fill some 75,000m 2of exhibition space alongside a host of conferences and specialist events. The 22nd Shipbuilding, Machinery & Marine Technology International Trade Fair Hamburg will fill ...
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NewsUmoe's Long Term Strategy for Schat-Harding
PLANS by the Norwegian group Umoe Industri to merge its lifeboat and davit subsidiary Umoe Schat-Harding with Bergen based equipment manufacturer TTS Marine ASA have been cancelled. Umoe has called off the proposed all-share merger following a significant change in the shareholder profile of TTS.
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Conference Will Navigate the Water Framework Directive
PIANC, together with its partners in the Navigation Task Group on the Water Framework Directive, will host a conference on the EU''s Water Framework Directive and the issues it raises for ports, navigation and dredging in Brussels on 31 January 2007.
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NewsRace Against Time at Bremerhaven
Officials in Bremerhaven are working fast in the Weser approaches to ensure that the giant Emma Maersk, billed by her owners as the world''s biggest container ship, will be able to turn when making its first call at a German port this month. The 400m long and 56m wide container ...
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NewsPoseidon Progress in the Agean
Fugro Oceanor has won a contract for the second operational phase of Poseidon, the sea condition forecasting system in the Aegean operated by the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR).
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NewsPEARL's a Thinker
We may never know how PEARL became an acronym for Port Environmental Information Collector but the three year European Commission funded project will focus on collecting environmental data and facilitating closer European cooperation on port related environmental issues. In the UK, ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd (ABPmer) will undertake a ...
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Disabled Access Improves
The Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) in the UK has published research showing the shipping industry has responded to its guidance on improving the accessibility of passenger ships, ferries and ports for disabled people. The guidance issued in 2000 expanded on that issued earlier by the IMO.
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Danube Summit Due
The 3rd Danube Summit, taking place in Budapest on 18 and 19 October, will focus on the region''s economic growth, with presentations covering trade flow forecasts and the requirements from major transport users for new inland waterway services.
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Jolly Good Fellow
HRH The Princess Royal has accepted an invitation to become an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST). She follows in the footsteps of her father, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, who became an Honorary Fellow in 1949 and was IMarEST''s President in 1962. IMarEST ...
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NewsGreat Yarmouth Selects Outer Harbour Partner
Great Yarmouth''s Outer Harbour Development has taken an important step forward with an announcement by the promoters, East Port Great Yarmouth Limited and Great Yarmouth Port Authority, that, following a competitive process which has taken place over the last five months, they are minded to award preferred partner status to ...
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Lankelma Acquires Andrews
Lankelma Marine SI has acquired Great Yarmouth UK based Andrews Survey, which has become Lankelma Andrews. Andrews brings 30 years of marine survey experience and their geotechnical capability will augment the Lankelma marine resource pool with CPTs, hydraulic vibracorers and a range of other seabed samplers. The new company will ...
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NewsTrinity House Vessel 'Galatea' Launched in Poland
The second new ship for Trinity House has been launched at the Stocznia Remontowa SA shipbuilders yard in Gdansk, Poland by Jane de Halpert, wife of Trinity House executive chairman Jeremy de Halpert.
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NewsNew Pollution Combat Ship for German Coast
It has taken nearly two years to acquire, organise, convert, complete and outfit, but Germany''s latest marine pollution combat ship Luneplate was finally due into service after trials in July.
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New Survey Conference
Luneplate was launched in early June at the Heise Schiffsreparatur & Industrie Service shipyard in Bremerhaven.A two day conference to examine the future of hydrographic and offshore survey is being launched by TMS International Ltd in partnership with Intelligent Exhibitions Ltd. To be held in March 2007 at the National ...
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NewsContainer Security Struggles for Standards
Governments and port authorities acknowledge that the 17 million cargo containers in use around the world are a weak link in national security arrangements. Importers/ exporters and manufacturers understand that poor container security poses a risk to the goods they contain. Yet because there are so many players in the ...
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NewsFast Security Craft for Russia
Swedish boat builder Dockstavarvet delivered a second security craft to Russia last month. Smaller than the first boat, the HSPC 11.3 M was turned over to Moscow based brokers Autogrand Marine Ltd for operation on Russia''s inland waterways.
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NewsImproved Surveillance Camera for Marine Security
A new design surveillance camera from Texas USA based Night Vision Technologies will enhance safety and security by improving the operator''s ability to detect, observe and identify objects and activity in total darkness, daylight or mixed light.
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NewsMantsbrite named Koden's exclusive UK distributor
Changes are afoot in the way that the range of Koden marine products will be distributed in the UK and Ireland. From the first of this month, Seawork exhibitor Mantsbrite, which has been jointly distributing Koden''s marine products, will become Koden''s exclusive distributor.
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DSB Acquires Yarmouth Shipping
International shipbrokers DSB Offshore have acquired the business of specialist tug broker Yarmouth Shipping Company Limited, which recently completed the sale of two 50 ton bollard pull tugs from BHP Billiton in Western Australia to Italian interests.
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NewsRenewables Nuked in UK Energy Review
In announcing its long awaited Energy Review last month, the British Government committed to extending the Renewables Obligation (RO) from 15% to 20% for green energy sources including wave, tidal and offshore wind power.
