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Nov 13, 2003
In June 2002, the fast expanding Austal USA yard, in Mobile, AL, introduced an apprenticeship program to its recruitment efforts. Since then, this program
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Nov 13, 2003
New data reporting shore leave denials
across the country show United States policies that endanger stowaways. The
data was collected by the Seamen's Church
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Nov 13, 2003
In a move affirming their commitment to sustainable development and the environment, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) announced today that Administrator Alberto Alemán Zubieta and Juan Hector Díaz,
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Nov 13, 2003
Transas commercially launched the latest version of its Engine Room Simulator, ERS 4000. The new simulator is enhanced with a number of new significant capabilities
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Nov 13, 2003
One wonders if, when Benjamin Randall Vickers went into business in 1828 as an agent selling oils and soaps, he had the prescience to see the ever growing need
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Nov 13, 2003
New program analyzes scrapedown oil as way to detect changes in the condition of an engine's cylinders
ExxonMobil introduced a program to optimize cylinder
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Nov 13, 2003
In the invention devised by Langh Ship, steel coils are transported on tweendecks that are equipped with integrated cradles. The method was granted a Finnish
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Nov 13, 2003
By Steve Harding BSc (Hons) MSc MRIN
Paperwork is, and always has been a necessary and essential aspect of ship operation. Indeed, the Barcelona Maritime
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Nov 13, 2003
EU Members and coastal states worldwide are in danger of “losing the plot” over the response to the Prestige spill, according to the International Salvage Union (ISU).
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Nov 13, 2003
The Strategic Council on Security Technology announced the global rollout of Phase Two of the Smart and Secure Tradelanes (SST) initiative. In the last year,
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Nov 13, 2003
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. reportedly won an order for four liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers from a shipping unit of British energy giant BP PLC, with the first due for delivery in 2006.
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Nov 13, 2003
Malta's government reportedly launched a wide-ranging reform of its loss-making shipyards to make the industry financially viable. This reform apparently means
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Nov 13, 2003
Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. reported that group net profit for the fiscal first half fell 6.3% from a year earlier to 2.51 billion yen despite a 6.6% rise in revenues to 199.
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Nov 13, 2003
Cunard Line's flagship Queen Mary 2 returned from the sea for the second time on Tuesday having successfully completed her final series of sea trials off the Brittany coast.
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Nov 13, 2003
World seaborne trade rebounded in 2002 to 5.89 billion tons, exceeding the previous record set in 2000, reports UNCTAD´s Review of Maritime Transport 2003, released recently.
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Nov 13, 2003
German predilection for technological advance permeates all areas of primary business and industrial activity, to the undoubted benefit of the competitive standing
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Nov 13, 2003
ASTM B 928 "High Magnesium Aluminum-Alloy Sheet & Plate for Marine Service"
By
Michael Skillingberg, VP, Technology
The Aluminum Association, Inc. &
Marc Cruder,
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Nov 13, 2003
China's importance in the world maritime market has accelerated rapidly over the past decade, but it appears that current and near future growth will prove even more prolific.
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Nov 13, 2003
By Eugene Bradley Jr. & Shaun Hunter
Lean times call for "leaner" boats and what better to employ than Lean Shipbuilding, which is known as a proven approach
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Nov 13, 2003
Boston can claim its new tunnel project as the "big dig", but the nearly $3 billion effort to dredge navigation channels in and around New York to 45 — and eventually 50 ft.
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