The Long Range Navigation system (LORAN-C) network in St. Anthony has recently succumbed to a fate it had avoided for more than 35 years — extinction.
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Efficiency Index
An International Maritime Organisation working group on energy efficiency has suggested that all new ships above 400 tonnes should be required to have an Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI).
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Keeping Track
The first Norwegian satellite is to be launched this summer in order to keep track of maritime activities in the High North.
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New Generation of Simulation
Hardware technology and software supplier, Transas, has developed a new simulator for monitoring fuel consumption and emissions, called ‘EcoShip’.
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Future Fish
Futuristic ‘robofish’ could be set to police north Wales’ harbours.
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Fooling With The Net
The South African Independent has revealed that early this morning Somali pirates free-dived nearly 100m and hijacked the Seacom cable near the Djibouti landing point. They are demanding $1 from every internet user, a total of at least $1-billion, by noon today.
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Arresting Sight
The Merchant Maritime Warfare Centre (MMWC), a UK based maritime anti-piracy organisation, announces today that it is launching their latest countermeasure, the MMWC Propeller Arresters.
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In Position
The Nautical Institute has launched ECDIS and Positioning, by Dr Andy Norris CNI to provide mariners with a thorough grounding in all aspects of ECDIS and the use of electronic charts.
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Container Collapse
Rene Giebers from the Netherlands has invented a collapsible plastic shipping container which could one day replace steel containers.
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Deep Sea Gliders
A new technology could lead to the development of smart torpedoes that could become a sea-going version of the Predator drone is being deployed in Germany.
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Special Delivery
China’s largest self-developed supertanker has been completed in south China’s Guangdong Province and was expected to set sail in late January.
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A Design For Life
Those who make all the rules and regulations that govern the design and operation of ships need to be sensitive to human element implications in all that they do.
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Very BroadBand
Inmarsat , has announced activation of the 5,000th FleetBroadband terminal. This figure represents commercially active SIM cards passing operational traffic.
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Electrifying News
South Tyneside Marine College have teamed up with Northumbria University to offer a new Foundation Degree for Electro Technical Officers (ETO). This is the first year the course will be running and is the only training facility in the country offering this pilot qualification.
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Stinger In The Tale
While armed guards have been credited with repelling today’s Somali pirate attack on the US-flagged Maersk Alabama, a separate industry based on the development of nonlethal weaponry to protect ships is booming.
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