Industry News – Page 295

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    Jolly Good Fellow

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • The Outer Harbour Development will add some 1,000m of berths at Great Yarmouth.
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    Great Yarmouth Selects Outer Harbour Partner

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Galatea will be delivered early next year.
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    Trinity House Vessel 'Galatea' Launched in Poland

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Luneplate is a one off, the result of converting a former inland clean up and oil disposal tanker barge.
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    New Pollution Combat Ship for German Coast

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • The implementation of an agreed standard for electronic container security could reduce the incidence of security measures by other means.
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    Container Security Struggles for Standards

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    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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    Fast Security Craft for Russia

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • NTSC video output from the new 125 surveillance camera can be integrated into a vessels wheelhouse.
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    Improved Surveillance Camera for Marine Security

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Koden chairman Yoshimasa Ito (3rd from left) with Deputy Harbour Master, Captain Ian Mace and Tom Waklin of Harwich Haven Authority and David Ash, managing director of Mantsbrite.
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    Mantsbrite named Koden's exclusive UK distributor

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    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

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • How much funding will renewable energy technologies receive compared to billions of pounds for the nuclear industry?
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    Renewables Nuked in UK Energy Review

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    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.

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    Marine Society's 250th

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Her Majesty The Queen was the principal guest last month when The Marine Society & Sea Cadets celebrated the 250th anniversary of the UK''s most enduring maritime charity. Speaking at the reception in Greenwich on board the Royal Navy''s amphibious assault ship HMS Albion, Vice Admiral Sir Tom Blackburn KCVO ...

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    Multidocker Will Boost Throughput at Ridham Dock

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    The recent arrival of a new high-tech multi-purpose cargo handling crane promises to speed up throughput at the busy Kentish port of Ridham Dock in the UK. Purchased by Ridham Sea Terminals Ltd (RST) the new machine, a Swedish built Multidocker CH65C, started work at one of the three berths ...

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    VTMS Wins Waterford Contract

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Leicestershire based Vessel Traffic Management Systems (VTMS) is establishing an Irish base at Waterford Container Terminal in Belview after being awarded a maintenance contract by Port of Waterford.

  • The Operations & Planning Centre (OPC) at Trinity House Harwich monitors the busy Strait of Dover. eLoran is expected to ensure safety in a high risk environment and reduce costs.
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    GLAs Make 'The Case for eLoran'

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Continuing the theme of operational efficiency in our coverage of the Trinity House Technical Open Day in Harwich last month, the General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) of the UK and Ireland have released The Case for eLoran.

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    Boskalis Buys Cofra

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Dutch dredging giant Royal Boskalis Westminster has boosted its 51% holding in geosynthetics for civil engineering specialist Cofra to full ownership. The acquisition strengthens Boskalis'' position in the global market for specialist soil improvement techniques. Cofra has concentrated on methods of soil improvement for the construction of infrastructure projects and ...

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    SASMEX Sails Home

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    It identifies how enhanced Loran (eLoran) will secure the safe, low risk and cost effective mix of Aids to Navigation (AtoN) needed for the benefit and safety of all mariners around the British Isles.The Safety at Sea and Marine Equipment Exhibition (SASMEX), which Safety at Sea International magazine hosted for ...

  • ABP is creating mudflats, saltmarsh and grasslands here at Chowderness and elsewhere on the Humber Estuary to offset habitat loss at the Immingham port development.
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    Environmental Offset at New Ro-Ro Terminal

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    The DFDS Nordic Terminal Riverside, the new £ 35m development at Associated British Ports'' Port of Immingham was opened last month on the day which marked the 100th anniversary of the start of the construction of the Immingham Dock.

  • Nomadic returns to Belfast after 95 years on board AMT Mariner. Belfast based tug Carron is at the bow, Norton Cross at the stern, and Tore is also seen.
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    'Nomadic' Returns to Belfast Birthplace

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    History was made on the 15th of last month when the White Star Line tender Nomadic returned to Belfast 95 years after leaving the Harland & Wolff shipyard where it was built.