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- Halmatic To Supply RIBs For Maritime & Coastguard Agency Maritime Reporter, Apr 2002 #8
Halmatic, one of the leading U.K. commercial and military boatbuilders, has announced a contract to supply four Pacific 32 wheelhouse rigid inflatable boats, three Arctic 22 rigid inflatable boats and one RTK Marine 29-ft. (9-m) Logistic Support Boat to the UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA).
The new fleet is designed to fulfill the MCA's wide operational requirements and will be based around the United Kingdom. The new craft will be built to Lloyds Register of Shipping Rules Report 10 and the MCA Brown Code Category 3 Rules.
The RTK Marine Logistic Support Boat is a commercial derivative of the successful Combat Support Boat currently in service with the U.K. Ministry of Defence. The craft features an asymmetrical narrow tunnel hull form and is powered by twin Yanmar inboard diesel engines coupled to Hamilton waterjets to provide a service speed in excess of 25 knots. The large wheelhouse will accommodate six crew on individual suspension seats and boast a galley, air-conditioning and day heads.
The Arctic 22 rigid inflatable boats will be trailer mounted for ease of deployment and will be powered by twin 90-hp outboard motors. Like the Arctic 22, Pacific 32 rigid inflatable boats feature a large air-conditioned wheelhouse with seating for six crew, galley and day head; Both will house twin Yanmar inboard diesels driving Hamilton waterjets to provide a service speed in excess of 25 knots.
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- Satellite Images Capture Tanker Pollution Marine Technology, Oct 2013 #21
£15,000 with a £120 victim surcharge and prosecution costs of £7404.88 were awarded. Captain Jeremy Smart, Head of Enforcement at the Maritime & Coastguard Agency, said, “This is the first time satellite imagery has been successfully used as primary evidence in a maritime pollution prosecution brought by
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- Ballast Water Tech: Hyde Marine Maritime Reporter, Feb 2013 #44
for capacity from 60 to 6000 cu. m./hr., and a Type Approval Certificate has been issued by Lloyd’s Register on behalf of the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency to confirm compliance with Guidelines contained in IMO resolution MEPC.174(58). Other certifications include ABS, Dutch Flag State, Russian
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- Titan Refloats Grounded Vessel Maritime Reporter, May 2013 #72
, which provided spill-prevention equipment, the Secretary of State’s Representative for Maritime Salvage and Intervention (SOSREP), the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), the Environment Group (EG) and the National Trust, alongside the ship’s owner and insurers, to ensure vessel security and environmental
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- Blyth Workcat Joins Osiris Projects Survey Fleet Marine Technology, Mar 2014 #20
quality survey data enhanced by the stability of the new boat. Proteus is the fifth vessel in the Osiris Projects fleet and has MCA (Maritime and Coastguard Agency) category 2 approval to work up to 60 miles offshore. With a maximum design speed of 24 knots the new boat will be able to get quickly on station
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- KMSS Supplies Unit To Lairdside Maritime Center Maritime Reporter, Sep 2001 #51
. Specific training courses are also approved to Flag State standard, which in the case of Lairdside Maritime Center is the UK MCA (Maritime and Coastguard Agency). Circle 8 on Reader Service Card www.maritimereporterinfo.co
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- Vessel Safety Takes Center Stage Maritime Reporter, Jul 2000 #8
— looking to the future" was pragmatic rather than alarmist. Organized by the Institute of Marine Engineers and the (U.K.) Maritime and Coastguard Agency, the event drew observations on safety matters and perceptions of upcoming needs from qualified professionals, in the light of major expansion
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- Opinion: Shame on Port States for the Treatment of Seafarers Maritime Reporter, Jul 2020 #12
this process. But at least the United States has done something.Most other nations have done next to nothing.The United Kingdom’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) recently detained five cruise ships idling in its waters for failure to complete timely inspections and to fully comply with Maritime Labor
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- Maritime Fatigue: Just another band aid? Maritime Reporter, Apr 2019 #10
management systems need to allow individuals to acknowledge fatigue without jeopardizing their employment. Likewise, the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) considers seafarer fatigue to be a potentially serious issue which is detrimental to safety at sea and the health of seafarers.The Australian
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- SMI: Helping to Spread British Marine Technology Worldwide Maritime Reporter, Aug 2002 #51
integration is much sought after by shipbuilders across the globe and, understandably, many U.K. marine equipment companies view the U.S. Coastguard Agency Deepwater project with more than a passing interest. So where does the Society of Maritime Industries fit into the picture? Put simply, our
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- BWT CASE STUDY: Hyde, PG & OSVs Maritime Reporter, May 2013 #30
Approval for capacity from 60 to 6,000 cu. m./hr. A Type Approval Certificate has been issued by Lloyd’s Register on behalf of the U.K. Maritime and Coastguard Agency to confirm compliance with Guidelines contained in IMO resolution MEPC.174(58). With more than 225 BWT systems already sold into the marine
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- Fuel Management & Safety Maritime Logistics Professional, Q3 2014 #20
distance of as many as 4,000 shallow water oil rigs, 800 manned oil rigs and 94 deepwater oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. The UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency counts as many as 35,581 annual transits in the South West Bound Lane in 2013. During the same timeframe, the Northeast Bound Lane experienced
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 28FEATURE INTERVIEW track missiles and warheads for the Mis- sile Defense Agency, and it travels with its support ship, the MV Hercules. For our Service Support ships, we have the two hospital ships, USNS Mer- cy and Comfort; two rescue and salvage ships; two submarine tenders; and the Sixth Fleet ?
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 27RADM PHILIP SOBECK, MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND With COVID, we had to make some hard choices for our Do your CIVMARs have upward mobility? mariners because we couldn’t rotate. Many of our mariners The Navy has Sailors who become “Mustangs,” and work found other employment, and were able to use their skills
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 14Book Review Approach to Meeting Underwater Radiated Noise Limits Def ned By Raymond Fischer uantitative underwater radiated noise limits will construction inspections, 5) possible training with respect to be developed shortly by IMO, and/or countries salient design/construction essentials, 6) compliance
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 34Feature Electric Tugs All images courtesy Eric Haun The eWolf’s power integrates into eWolf features a 6.2 MWh Orca ABB’s DC grid architecture, which battery energy storage system distributes to all the consumers from Corvus Energy. throughout the vessel. 12 to 16 inches. If you’ve got 14 inches and
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 27Feature Shipbuilding Loumania Stewart / U.S. Coast Guard focus), which require very different business systems to be in place. “We’ve been able to do both,” he said, noting that having systems in place for government jobs makes East- ern Shipbuilding “move-in ready for the Navy and other DOD agencies
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 25though indirectly and not linked to navigation concerns, say, for NOAA’s own ? eet. Rather, NOAA hands-off the issue to its Integrated Ocean Observing System which suggests that BOEM include a requirement, as a condition of project ap- proval, that wind companies “must develop a high frequency radar
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 21Feature Navigation “Wind Turbines: The Bigger, the Better” – USDOE Of? ce of Energy Ef? ciency & Renewable Energy, August 24, 2023 ast December the Bureau of Ocean Energy Man- Agencies write: we want to advance wind energy, but ocean agement (BOEM) published a proposed sale no- areas can only yield so
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 14Insights tion on a couple of issues, including engine room crew- For AWO, as an organization, what is its top ing on ATBs with automated systems. This is an issue priorities for the coming six to 12 months and that Congress thought that it addressed in the last Coast what’s being done to address them? Gua
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 11Q&A Increasingly, cyber security has been gaining focus as an area of concern across maritime supply chains, and recently the Coast Guard has been tasked with creating and enforcing maritime cyber standards. What do you hope to see from these standards as they are drafted and put to use? Two key
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 39Vessels Next WSF Vessels Could Be Built Outside of Washington State By Eric Haun The next newbuilds for Washington State Ferries (WSF) is required to award a credit of 13% of the bid price for bid could be built by a shipyard outside of Washington as the proposals for vessels constructed in the state of
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 38Vessels Crowley’s All-electric Harbor Tug eWolf Delivered By Eric Haun Crowley has taken delivery of its groundbreaking vessel ers and shipyards,” said Garrett Rice, president of Mas- eWolf, the ? rst all-electric, ship assist harbor tugboat in ter Boat Builders. “We are proud to have partnered with the
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 24Feature Passenger Vessel Safety Any upcoming meetings? inspected passenger vessels in the U.S-? ag ? eet. • Of these, 530 are already required by domestic In early January, NTSB was asked about its working re- law to have SMSs, in accordance with lationship with the USCG. International Maritime
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 23Passenger Vessel Safety occur on a sightseeing vessel or an Ohio River dinner cruise? This contrast between speci? c – sometimes very speci? c – and general comes to mind when considering the numerous safety advisories pertaining to recent amphibious DUKW boat tragedies or the 2019 Conception dive boat
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 17Column Going Green ernize ferry operations, replace aging implemented to address grid and space increased power requirements. That vessels, and upgrade ferry terminals. constraints with electri? cation. can involve installing new conduit, The grants are critical to helping WETA is one of many U.S.
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 16Column Going Green For Ferries to Go Green, Governments Will Need to Provide the Green By Kaiya Levine, Energy & Sustainability Consultant, Arup Whether it is from international organizations ? ve nautical miles or less, meaning they have relatively low or state government agencies, there is growing
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 8By the Numbers © Dragon Claws / Adobe Stock Rebuilding the Foundations of US Offshore Wind By Philip Lewis, Director of Research, Intelatus Global Partners As we enter a New Year, the memories of the shocks to with a potential of 3.3-6.3 GW in Delaware and Chesa- the foundations to the U.S. offshore wind
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 4Marine News February 2024 Volume 35 Number 2 Marine News (ISSN#1087-3864) (USPS#013-952) Editor’s Note New York: 118 E. 25th St., New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 477-6700; fax: (212) 254-6271 www.marinelink.com Down but not out. That’s how I’d de- scribe the current state of the U.S. offshore CEO wind
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 12INSIGHTS AERIAL DRONES & MINE HUNTING UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM HAS EARNED ITS SEA-LEGS By Edward Lundquist he Swiss-Swedish joint-venture UMS Skeldar V-200 mum take-off weight of 235kg, a maximum speed of 75 knots vertical take-off unmanned arial system (VTUAV) and a payload of up to 40kg. It can take
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 43into force in 1958, and only gave the IMO broad and, vague tion. But shipbuilders, oil companies, miners, chemical man- powers “to deal with” the regulation and practices “relating ufactures and others with huge ? nancial stakes in shipping, to technical matters of all kinds affecting shipping in inter-
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 42OPINION: The Final Word Copyright William/AdobeStock Where is the IMO? Tasked to ? ght climate change, what’s up with United Nations ocean shipping agency charged with the responsibility to regulate GHGs? By T. Nelson Thompson hy can’t global ocean shipping, an industry based in an unassuming brown
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 4Authors & Contributors MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS M A R I N E L I N K . C O M ISSN-0025-3448 USPS-016-750 No. 12 Vol. 85 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News Ewing Galdorisi Goldberg (ISSN # 0025-3448) is published monthly except for March, July, and October by Maritime Activity Reports, Inc.
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 42Feature Shipyards MARAD T The VCM model, she added “created a highly competitive a and streamlined approach that can be used in the future by o other government entities to procure ships.” Indeed, Linares said the government has a unique op- p portunity to review and ask, “What worked well, what d
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 37Feature Shipyards By Tom Ewing hen asked about the top issues facing if operating policies are murky. shipbuilders, executives at the Ship- As an example, Paxton and Zorensky cited a CBP ruling builders Council of America (SCA) linked to the installation of wind tower monopiles (steel W listed a number
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 18Column Legal Beat Bringing the Capital Construction Fund Program Ashore By James Kearns, Special Council, Jones Walker LLP On May 5, 2023, base amount, providing a total of more than $662 million the White House announced that the Environmental Pro- for FY 2023. The NOFOs that have been issued for