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The Thames Tideway Tunnel project, London’s new ‘super sewer’, which will upgrade the city’s 19th century sewerage system for today’s eight million plus inhabitants, requires excavation on an enormous scale. Creating a tunnel 25 kilometers in length, and running up to 65 meters beneath the River Thames, will generate immense volumes of spoil, right in the heart of London. To minimize the impact of transporting this on the capital’s roads, Tideway plans to transport around 4 million metric tons of this material by river.

to SOLAS Chapter XI, which now includes a new International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code. On Monday this week, Lloyd's Register held the first in a global program of practical seminars aimed at helping the marine industry understand the implications of the new Regulations. for ISM. as a difficult subject. Piraeus, Hong Kong and Singapore. Speaking after the seminar, Captain Andy Mitchell, Head of Lloyd's Register's Marine Management Systems group commented; "Maritime security is often portrayed as a complicated subject, so it important that the industry takes a practical, rather than a bureaucratic, approach. assistance with developing and implementing systems to comply with ISPS.