Europe – Page 48
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Incident reporting handbook
The Nautical Institute has launched The Mariner’s Role in Collecting Evidence Handbook to help both seafarers and designated persons ashore gather evidence in the event of accidents and incidents, including pollution and spills.
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England’s first Marine Plan
The UK’s new Marine Management Organisation has selected the sea areas off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire and Felixstowe, Suffolk to be the first two English marine plan areas to be developed from April 2011.
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NewsBiomass plant boost for Southampton
A new biomass power plant located at the Port of Southampton could help give volumes a lift since most of the estimated 800,000 tonnes a year feedstock would come through the port.
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NewsHandling options for windfarm components
A new way of handling wind farm components using specially adapted reachstackers has been realised at the Port of Mostyn in North Wales.
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UK cuts will have repercussions
The UK’s present policy toward public bodies will have repercussions for ports and coastal environments. It’s not that there’s no need for a trim, but some of these bodies provide near irreplaceable services.
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Award for HPUK
Hutchison Ports UK Ltd (HPUK) is celebrating an award for becoming certified by the Carbon Trust Standard for reducing its carbon emissions by 8.2% between 2007 and 2009.
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Inland ports need to be recognised
The European Federation of Inland Ports (EFIP) has said while it strongly supports the review of the Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T), the organisation believes that the whole waterway network and all of Europe''s inland ports should be included.
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NewsSmit and Boskalis sign merger protocol
Royal Boskalis Westminster and Smit International have signed a protocol for a full merger of the two companies. The transaction will be executed through an all cash public offer of €60 exdividend (instead of cum dividend as previously anticipated) by Boskalis for all outstanding shares in Smit.
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ABP's Hams Hall Rail Freight Terminal
Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Hams Hall inter-modal rail freight terminal near Birmingham has won an Environmental Innovation Award at the 2009 Rail Freight Group Awards held recently in London.
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New Dutch coastline takes shape
The construction of Maasvlakte 2 is proceeding according to plan. Over a quarter of the necessary sand was applied during the last year by contractors’ consortium PUMA. The trailing suction hopper dredgers have started to create two islands in the North Sea. One of these is already over 4 km ...
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NewsSMM focuses on the environment
SMM 2010 is scheduled for 7 to 10 September, at the Hamburg Fair site in Germany. The 24th International Shipbuilding Fair is expected by the organisers to exceed the very considerable size of previous events.
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NewsGijon monitors its ecological footprint
MC3 methodology has been used for the past nine years to measure the Carbon Footprint of the northern Spanish port
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NewsKuifeend nature conservation area
The Kuifeend + Grote Kreek nature conservation area lies within the Antwerp North railway marshalling yard, right in the middle of the port of Antwerp.
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NewsAdvantage: Rail
Rail is the key to Duisport’s commercial success. Kasia Kurek, of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, reports
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NewsTackling the challenges of inland ports
The “Binnen_Land” Research project has been established in response to the urgent need to handle increasing volumes of freight more sustainable. Femke Grabbert and Verena Meister of the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg provide an update on the project
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NewsTowards a carbon-reduced logistics chain
The GreenPort Logistics conference in Stockholm earlier this year focused on the challenges of carbon reduction in the transport chain
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NewsSustainable hinterland logistics in practice
The Port of Amsterdam and the Flower Auction FloraHolland in the Netherlands initiated a pilot in the first 3 months of 2010. Edwin Wenink, FloraHolland, reports: “For the first time, we brought plants in a logistic chain mainly based on waterway transport between the place of origin and the final ...
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NewsIndustry collaboration: key to greener ports
Interchange of information about ports, the environment and sustainable business management was a recurring theme of the presentations a the 5th GreenPort Conference in Stockholm on 24 and 25 February 2010
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Belfast to host SOS
The Sustainable Ocean Summit (SOS), billed as the first international, cross-sectoral business conference on ocean sustainability, takes place 15-17 June in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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NewsGrain shiploader has advanced dust control features
Gleadell Agriculture Ltd has just taken delivery of a rubber-tyred mobile shiploader from B&W Mechanical Handling for its new grain loading facility currently being constructed at the Port of Great Yarmouth, on the east coast of the UK.
