Industry News – Page 301
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Economic Change Slow for Environmental Salvage
The debate on compensation for salvage operations which prevent damage to the environment, initiated by the International Salvage Union (ISU), is a good thing, International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds director Mans Jacobsson told delegates to the ISU Conference in London last month.
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Imtech Buys Radio Holland
Imtech NV is to acquire the Radio Holland Group BV in a move that will almost double the revenues of its maritime markets to some ?350m while increasing staff to 1,700 people. The acquisition will be formalised after the expected approval of Dutch and German regulatory authorities. Imtech technology is ...
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NewsEnhanced Risk Assessment for Ports
The Salvage Association, which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, is placing increasing emphasis on serving other sectors of the maritime industry while remaining fully committed to its core business of marine casualty surveying and investigation. Now a subsidiary of BMT Ltd, the Salvage Association is attracting old and new ...
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NewsBank of Scotland's Seawork Debut
Bank of Scotland Marine Finance, a familiar name in the leisure marine market and an active player in the global shipping market for many years, will be exhibiting at Seawork for the first time in Southampton this summer.
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NewsGet to Ghent for RORO 2006
The 18th biennial meeting point for the international ro-ro industry, RORO 2006, takes place at Flanders Expo in the Belgian Port of Ghent on 16-18 May. Sponsored by the Ghent Port Company, RORO 2006 will focus on a range of commercial, operational and technical issues affecting the future of the ...
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NewsTwo Newbuilds for Hamburg's Busy HADAG Ferry Fleet
Hamburg''s HADAG Seetouristik und Fahrdienst has taken into service its eighth Type 2000 ferry and excursion boat, Ovelgonne, and is looking forward to taking delivery of a ninth in June.
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NewsBMF 'Strongly Opposed' to Dramatic Increase in Dredging Costs
The British Marine Federation (BMF) says the Government''s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is inviting comments on proposals to introduce changes to the Food and Environment Protection Act (FEPA) 1985 fee charging system and licensing process by Wednesday 3 May 2006, and says that it is ...
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New Aggregates Zoning Information Available
The British Marine Aggregate Producers Association (BMAPA) and The Crown Estate have released the first set of zoning information for 2006. The seventh update since this initiative commenced, it confirms their guarantee to provide more detailed information on the zoning of marine aggregate licence areas located around the coastline of ...
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NewsCommission Denies Deficiencies in Environmental Legislation.
Speakers at the first GreenPort Conference in Antwerp in February had a clash of opinion as to whether European environmental legislation, and in particular the Habitats and Water Framework Directives, has inherent deficiencies causing bottlenecks for port development.
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NewsBusy New Year for Salvage Teams
SvitzerWijsmuller Salvage BV had a busy start to 2006, with four Lloyds Forms and one other salvage operation in the first five weeks.
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NewsTerror Hysteria Mars P&O Ports Transaction
Dubai Ports World has been forced to put the American dimension of its newly acquired P& O Ports operation up for sale following an unprecedented eruption of xenophobia in the US Congress. Senators and Representatives from both American political parties joined in a chorus of hysteria over a sale they ...
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Marine Environmental High Risk Areas Revealed
In a Written Statement to Parliament last month, the British Government''s Transport Secretary, Alistair Darling MP, unveiled 32 locations around the UK coast that have been identified as Marine Environmental High Risk Areas (MEHRAs). The primary purpose of the MEHRAs will be to inform mariners of areas of high environmental ...
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Wind Powers Aquarium's Marine Renewables Exhibition
The National Marine Aquarium at Plymouth UK opens a new three floor exhibit this month powered by a pair of 15m high wind turbines residing in the attraction''s new Ocean Sculpture Park.
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CIMAC Call for Papers
The International Council of Combustion Engines (CIMAC) has set the dates of 21-24 May 2007 for the 25th CIMAC Congress 2007, to be held in Vienna, Austria. A leading event in the field of ship propulsion, power generation and rail traction, the CIMAC Congress 2007 will focus on all aspects ...
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ISU Develops Environmental Award Proposals
A salvage industry plan to introduce a new reward system for environmental services is developing a sharper focus.
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Light Dues Online Migration Completed
King Henry VIII would marvel at the changes since he first issued Trinity House with the Charter to collect Light Dues in 1514. The latest is a new internet based solution, Automatic Light Dues Information System (ALDIS), which has been delivered to Trinity House for the collection of Light Dues ...
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Boskalis Grows Again
Dutch dredging industry giant Royal Bosklis Westminster nv has acquired the dredging fleet of Finnish company Wasa Dredging Oy. The Wasa staff of some 30 employees will join Terramare Oy, the Finnish home market subsidiary of Boskalis.
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Pharos Marine Correction
Trinity House is funded from Light Dues levied on commercial shipping in some of the busiest sea lanes in the world, at no expense to the taxpayer. The revenue provides for nearly 600 aids to navigation ranging from lighthouses, buoys and beacons to the latest satellite navigation technology.In an article ...
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BMT Buys Belgian
BMT Ltd has acquired Belgian based Techmar International NV, the largest technical marine surveying company in Antwerp.
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Resinex Deliver Secure Moorings
As the largest single owner operator of LNG tankers in the world, Petronas subsidiary MISC is concerned for the safe and secure mooring of its vessels. Along with another Petronas subsidiary, Malaysia Marine and Heavy Equipment, they needed a mooring point for shuttle tankers to an FSO operated by Talisman ...
