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Metoc Expands for Marine Renewables
Consultants Metoc is further expanding its marine survey capabilities to meet the growing demand for services to the offshore renewable energy market. Services offered range from the on-site management of marine investigations, such as geophysical, benthic and other environmental surveys for Round Two of UK offshore wind farms, through to ...
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NewsTidal Turbine Pioneers Advance to Phase Two
Hampshire UK based Marine Current Turbines (MCT) has successfully closed a £ 3m equity funding round and launched a programme to develop a successor to the Seaflow Project , the world''s first 300kW offshore tidal turbine.
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PLA Launches Online Atlas
A new online shipping service world atlas has been launched by the Port of London .
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Bob Butcher RIP
Lyme Boats hold the exclusive rights to build and sell the GRP built Powerglide 30, which will be available in two versions.Condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Bob Butcher, Chief Draughtsman at McTay Marine Limited , who died suddenly last month. Bob was an integral part of the ...
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HGVs Go East
New statistics released by the UK''s Department for Transport show that HGV''s are shunning the main channel crossings to Europe at the Dover Straits in order to avoid the permanently congested M25 motorway. For the first year on record, the number of goods vehicles crossing from Dover, Folkestone, Ramsgate and ...
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Pollution Specialists Expand
The Wales based emergency response and training company DV Howells , a subsidiary of Milford Haven Port Authority, haspurchased Aberdeen based Ceto Environmental Ltd , which had gone into receivership earlier this year. The purchase brings DV Howells extra capacity and expertise in its core markets of oil and chemical ...
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NewsWave Buoys Bolster Coastal Defences
Wave measuring buoys which could help warn of an impending flood have been strategically placed around the UK coastline as part of a three year monitoring project.
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Turku Production to End
The Wartsila Corporation hasannounced plans to cease engine manufacturing at its plant at Turku in Finland following consultation with personnel representatives. The move to reduce surplus engine capacity within the Group will result in 425 redundancies. Manufacturing will cease by the end of this year and the Turku factory will ...
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ABP's Green Website
With a decision imminent on its application to build a new box terminal at Dibden Bay, Port of Southampton, Associated British Ports has launched a website dedicated to promoting its environmental policies, activities and objectives. Visitors to www.environment.abports.co.uk canlearn about ABP''s environmental responsibilities, the initiatives it has taken to improve ...
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NewsDerecktor's Fast Ferry Speeds to Alaska
M/V Fairweather , the 73m LOA high speed vehicle/passenger ferry built by Derecktor Shipyards in Connecticut USA, has concluded sea trials and made an 8,500 mile delivery voyage to its home port of Juneau, where it will commence service for the Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) next month.
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Volvo Penta US Honours
Volvo Penta ''s new D6-310 marine diesel engine has been honoured with the Editor''s Choice Award by the American magazine Motor Boating . The new generation D6-310 and D4-210 engines, displacing 5.5 and 3.7 litres respectively, were launched by Volvo Penta last autumn and are being installed in boats in ...
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NewsFinns Win Again with Sixth Police Targa
The Metropolitan Police Thames Division fleet has received its sixth Finnish built Targa patrol craft, supplied by seawork2004 exhibitor Wessex Marine .
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Government Inaction Threatening UK Marinas, Claims TYHS
The Yacht Harbour Association (TYHA), the association for the development of coastal and inland boating facilities in the UK, says British marinas are suffering unfairly at the hands of the government because of the time it takes to obtain consents for dredging work - whether maintenance dredging at existing facilities, ...
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Government Pledge on Erosion Claims
The UK Government has reportedly pledged to look closely at claims by European experts that dredging can be linked to erosion on the North Norfolk coast, claim campaigners.
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Calls for ‘Joined-up Government’ to Aid Offshore Wind
The UK’ s offshore wind power industry, key to the Government achieving its target of generating 15% of the national electricity requirement from renewable sources by 2015, has been hit by opposition from the Government’ s own Ministry of Defence (MoD) as well as the Royal Society for the Protection ...
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NewsA Chrous of Calls to Free 'Karachi Eight'
Traditional cutting of the New Year''s cake ceremonies held at the Piraeus offices of international salvage group Tsavliris were dominated by wishes for the safe return of salvage master Nikos Pappas , detained by authorities in Pakistan for pollution incidents related to the grounding of the tanker Tasman Spirit off ...
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Port of London Terminal Boom
In announcing that port terminals and facilities on London''s River Thames handled over 51 million tonnes of cargo last year, the Port of London Authority also said it anticipates that over £ 1.3 billion will be invested in PLA terminals over the next decade. This is in addition to the ...
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Revolutionary Year at Marseilles
The fourth largest port in Europe at Marseilles handled its highest cargo volume for 15 years in 2003 and set an all-time passenger record of nearly two million. Cargo throughput of 95.6 million tonnes was up 3.6% on 2002 and marked a return to 1988 levels when oil traffic accounted ...
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NewsStudy Underway Assessing Continental Transport
The future use of transportation corridors between Scandinavian and central Continental countries is being assessed by BMT Transport Solutions GmbH on behalf of 12 European governmental and industry organisations. The study will take into account increased congestion in the region and the need to facilitate trade.
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Maritime Research Website
The UK''s National Maritime Museum has launched the Journal for Maritime Research (JMR), the first fully refereed electronic journal in the field of maritime studies. The JMR''s purpose is to encourage research into the social, cultural and environmental contexts of maritime studies, both historical and contemporary.
