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Forth Coastguard Conduct Ferry Coordination Exercise
Scotland''s Forth Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre conducted an exercise with the Greek registered ro-ro ferry Superfast 10 last month as the vessel was on passage from Zeebrugge to Rosyth. The 30,285 tonne, 203m LOA vessel was approximately two hours from the Fairway Buoy when the one hour exercise commenced.
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NewsSouthampton Has A Lotta Bottle
A first shipment comprising 1,200 tonnes of recycled bottle-glass material left the Midland Glass Processing Company''s (MGPC) new plant at the ABP Port of Southampton last month on board MV Sea Kestrel, bound for the ABP Port of Goole on the Humber Estuary. It would have required 45 articulated lorries ...
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NewsLegal Issues of Chinese Shipbuilding Explained
Chinese shipbuilders are rapidly expanding both their product ranges and their newbuilding capacity. In addition to an already well established product line of large vessels such as tankers and bulkers, Chinese yards are now building a range of export vessels which extend from ro-ro and ro-pax vessels downwards in size ...
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Commercial Marine Finance Makes seawork a Port of Call
Bank of Scotland Marine Finance, which is well established in the UK as a leisure marine finance provider, has expanded its activities to support commercial marine companies looking for asset funding. Paul Ratcliffe, who was appointed Asset Finance Manager - Marine last December, will be visiting seawork2003.
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NewsSecurity CCTV for Port of Belfast
Ireland''s busiest ferry port at the Port of Belfast has received a high security digital CCTV installation supplied by Bell Security (NI) Ltd.
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NewsEnergy White Paper Spells Opportunity for Maritime Industries
The British Government confirmed its commitment to renewable energy last month with the release of the long awaited Energy White Paper titled ''Our Energy Future - Creating a Low Carbon Economy''. A package which will be worth £ 1 billion per year to the renewables industry by 2010 aims to ...
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Marine Electronics Takeover
Rheinmetall AG of Dusseldorf has purchased the 50% stake in EuroMarine Electronics GmbH of Hamburg held by its Brussels-based joint venture partner Zenitel SA (formerly Sait Stento) in a deal subject to approval by relevant European cartel authorities.
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NewsHammar Nails Confusion with New Release Unit
Swedish safety equipment manufacturer CM Hammar has launched a new version of the Hydrostatic Release Unit which is a widely recognised component of innumerable liferafts and EPIRBs.
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NewsMersey Beats Drum for Maritime Expansion
The Mersey Maritime cluster has been launched in the Merseyside (Liverpool) region of the UK, aiming to become a world class benchmark centre of excellence in every sector of maritime operations and services over the next three years.
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NewsSingle Branding for DaimlerChrysler Marine Diesels
All Daimler-Chrysler marine engines will now be singlebranded as MTU regardless of whether they are manufactured by the Detroit Diesel Corporation in Michigan USA or by MTU in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The single brand strategy has been defined since DaimlerChrysler AG acquired the Detroit Diesel Corporation in October 2000.
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NewsNew Hamburg Container Terminal is in Lubeck
HHLA, the biggest operator in the North Sea Port of Hamburg, has just opened a new ?50m container terminal and it is more than 60 kms away overland, in Germany''s biggest Baltic seaport, Lubeck.
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NewsABP Boosts Profits
Associated British Ports exceeded already high market expectations by posting a 6% rise in underlying pre-tax profit to £ 138.1m and boosting turnover by 7% to £ 401.9m.
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NewsEXODUS Wins Prestigious Award
EXODUS evacuation simulation software developed by the University of Greenwich (UK) Fire Safety Engineering Group has been awarded a prestigious Queen''s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education at a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace. The Queen presented a gold medal and an illuminated prize certificate to the University''s Vice ...
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Militaries March to Marine Security
Recent and current world events have given rise to increased interest in port security, with many nations accelerating their plans in this area.
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Launch for CableAwareness. com
Thales GeoSolutions (Pacific) Inc has launched an online information system aimed at providing submarine cable owners with added protection for their cable system. The web address www.Cable Awareness. com provides basic cable positional data and cable awareness charts to the fishing community and other marine users over the internet on ...
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NewsLondon Gateway Inquiry Underway
The public inquiry into P&O and Shell''s proposals to regenerate the 1,500 acre site of the former Shell Haven oil refinery on London''s River Thames began late last month.
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Ness Lock on Windpower?
A renewable energy centre of excellence could be built at Lowestoft UK to help put the East Anglia region in prime position for the emerging windpower market. A report by the East of England Development Agency envisages a cluster of offices at the base of the giant turbine at Ness ...
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New Year, New ABPmer Team
ABP Marine Environmental Research (ABPmer) has expanded its services by forming a Processes team which will focus on work in the flood and coastal management sector as well as undertake dredging and marine navigation design studies.
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NewsMcMurdo Launches Regional 'Centres of Excellence' Plan
Portsmouth UK based marine safety equipment manufacturers McMurdo have announced plans to set up regional ''centres of excellence'' in major ports around the world.
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Four Minute Smile
The Thames passenger vessel Elizabethan observed a man fall into the Thames without a lifejacket while securing a workboat last month. The Elizabethan sent a distress call to London Coastguard.
