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		<title>T.O.S. Inks Contract with German Towing Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[T.O.S. (Transport &#38; Offshore Services) and the German towing company Hans Schramm &#38; Sohn Schleppschifffahrt have signed a contract for the ship delivery and total crewing of the NavTug© FlatTop &#8220;Torsten&#8221;. In the beginning of this month Mr Torsten Andritter-Witt (Managing Director) and Mr. Kees Wagenaar (Managing Director T.O.S.) signed the total crewing contract. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia: Rosatomflot Reveals Plan to Construct Largest Nuclear Icebreaker</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rosatomflot has revealed its plans to construct an LK60, the largest and most powerful nuclear icebreaker ever built, that will be deployed in the Northern Sea Route. Vyacheslav Ruksha, General Director of Rosatomflot, says to BarentsObserver that the estimated cost for a new icebreaker is € 1.1 billion and is already included in Rosatomflots’s 2012 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan: Sasaki Shipbuilding Launches Newbuild Oil-chemical Tanker</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sasaki Shipbuilding, located on the island of Kinoe, few days ago held launching ceremony for newbuild vessel JYOHOUMARU. The vessel is an oil/ chemical tanker with the capacity of 6,316cbm build in accordance with the latest environmental standards. The vessel was launched safely on a beautiful snowy day with the attendance of yards and owners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clipper Takes Delivery of Its New Multi-purpose Vessel in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clipper has taken delivery of the newbuilding Clipper New York. The vessel is the last in a series of four 17,000 dwt, multi-purpose vessels ordered from Tongfang Shipyard, China. The delivery of the vessel is in line with Clipper Projects&#8217; strategic goal to renew the fleet. On her maiden voyage the vessel will load project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Launch Ceremony for TSHD CHANG JIANG KOU 02 at Chinese Shipyard</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The naming and launch ceremony for the 12,000m³ trailing suction hopper dredger, CHANG JIANG KOU 02, took place on 22 February 2012 at the Daoda Heavy Industry shipyard in Qidong, China. IHC Merwede is building the impressive vessel for Yangtze Estuary Waterway Administration Bureau MOT, which is based in the People’s Republic of China. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Djibouti Government Starts Tadjoura Port Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allana Potash Corp. reports that the Government of the Republic of Djibouti Ministere de l’Equipment et des Transport, through the Djibouti Port and Free Zone Authority (“Port Authority”), has begun the pre-qualification process to select contractors for the construction of the new port at Tadjoura, Djibouti. As released by the Djibouti Government, under financing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee Meets in London, UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Market-based measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping will be among the key items on the agenda of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), when it meets for its 63rd session from 27 February to 2 March 2012, at IMO Headquarters in London. The MEPC will also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ezion Secures Charter Contract for Service Rig Offshore Myanmar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ezion Holdings Limited announces that it has secured a charter contract with a value of up to USD 118 million over a 3 year period to provide a service rig (“Service Rig”) to be used by a European based multinational oil company to support its oil &#38; gas activities in offshore Myanmar. The Service Rig [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Navy Helps Reduce Somali Pirate Activity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following his posting as Commander of the UK Counter-Piracy Task Group, Captain Gerry Northwood, Royal Navy, has written in The Times newspaper about how concerted efforts are helping reduce attacks on merchant vessels. Captain Northwood writes: “Eleven pirates on board with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades. All comms on ship are down. Crew safe in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Denmark: BIMCO, NSA Launch New Edition of SALEFORM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BIMCO and the Norwegian Shipbrokers’ Association (NSA) announce the launch of the new edition of SALEFORM &#8211; the industry’s most widely used agreement for the sale and purchase of second hand ships. SALEFORM 2012 builds upon the international success of its predecessor, SALEFORM 93, while retaining the accepted general principles and familiar structure of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia: RS Gets Recognision as Classification Society for Marine and Inland Waterway Vessels</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) is now officially recognised by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union as a classification society fully meeting the criteria for the relevant work under Directive 2006/87/EC. The Directive establishes the technical requirements to inland waterway vessels for operation on all European inland waterways, including the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Switzerland: ABB Wins DC-based Electric Solution Order</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order from ship owner Myklebusthaug Management to supply the first ever direct current (DC) power grid on board a ship. The equipment will allow a new offshore platform support vessel, under construction in Norway, to operate at the highest energy efficiency level to minimize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swire Pacific Acquires Norwagian Seabed AS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swire Pacific Offshore Operations (Pte) Limited (SPO) announced the acquisition of Seabed AS, based in Bergen, Norway. Seabed AS was founded in 2008 by Mr Hans Martin Gravdal, who has more than 30 years of experience within a wide range of subsea operations. Mr Gravdal and his experienced team will continue with the company which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Netherlands Navy Conducts Operation Martillo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[12 countries, including the Royal Netherlands Navy as a representative of the Netherlands, are currently combating drugs smuggling in a large area of the Caribbean extending to the Pacific Ocean in Operation Martillo. The emphasis is on South and Central American coastal waters. This operation will prevent drugs being trafficked to the Netherlands, among other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norway: Solstad Offshore Receives Environmental Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Solstad Offshore won the Environmental award at the Annual Offshore Support Journal (OSJ) 2012 event. The company won the prize for its Green Operations initiative, which has seen the company work with the Rainforest Foundation Norway to reduce emissions and provide funds towards protecting the rainforest. The Annual Offshore Support Journal Conference is the international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: INPEX Buys Skire’s Unifier Solution for Ichthys LNG</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intergraph®, provider of enterprise engineering software, and its partner, Skire, have entered into an agreement with INPEX for the purchase of Skire’s Unifier™ solution for the Ichthys LNG project. INPEX selected Unifier as the mega-project’s cost control system after a formal call for tender based upon its powerful purpose-built capabilities, proven track record in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inchcape Shipping Services Launches Operations in Saudi Arabia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), the world’s leading maritime services provider, today announced the launch of new operations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The move provides ISS with a significant presence in one of the largest industrial and project-orientated economies within the Middle East. In creating the new entity, ISS has signed a joint venture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Denmark: Empresa Naviera Elcano Orders MAN Propulsion Package</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spanish concern Empresa Naviera Elcano, S.A., the international shipping group, has placed an order for two medium-speed MAN L27/38 engines as part of a propulsion package for a new vessel. The units will be constructed at the MAN Diesel &#38; Turbo facility in Frederikshavn, Denmark, and will power a 7,000-dwt asphalt and oil-products tanker to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia: Sevmash Shipyard to Conduct Sea Trials on INS Vikramaditya in May</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Designers of JSC Sevmash shipyard are resolving complex technical issues when working on Project 11430 aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya being modernized for Indian Navy, reports the shipyard’s press service. For Sevmash, INS Vikramaditya is one of the major projects to be completed in 2012. Main weapon of the carrier are deck-based fighters MiG-29K/KUB and helicopters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Aberdeen Harbour to Receive 10 Cruise Calls this Summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aberdeen Harbour is preparing to welcome 10 cruise calls this summer, with four vessels making their first ever visits to the city. The arrival of Rembrandt van Rijn on May 5, will signal the start of the season. A 168-foot passenger ship, Rembrandt will spend a day berthed at the port, before embarking on an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan: NYK Completes Winter Safety Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NYK Group has completed its winter Sail on Safety campaign, which ran from December 1, 2011, through January 31, 2012. NYK carries out the campaign every year as part of its proactive measures to prevent accidents that are more likely to occur due to the turbulent seas that are more common during the winter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monaco: Scorpio Tankers Announces Newbuilding, Sales and Charter Agreements</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scorpio Tankers Inc. announced today that it has signed a contract with Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co., Ltd. of South Korea to construct a 52,000 DWT MR product tanker, entered into agreements to sell three of its Handymax vessels, and agreed to time charter-in two MR product tankers. Newbuilding Vessel Agreement The Company signed a contract [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: IMO &#8211; Polar Code Guidelines and Standards Under Construction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is developing a mandatory Polar Code in order to set standards for ship construction and operation in polar waters, according to INTERTANKO&#8217;s Technical Director, Dragos Rauta, who was at IMO this week. The Polar Code will be based on an existing set of IMO Guidelines, however, developing statutory language for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Netherlands: Maasvlakte Gets First Waiting Berth for Small Container Ships</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, the first waiting berth for short sea and feeder vessels went into use on the Maasvlakte. It involves the former Tor Line berth, which the Port of Rotterdam Authority has made suitable for small container vessels. The waiting berth was used straight away by the 137-metre “Öland”, owned by the shipping company X-Press [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Offshore Ship Designers Seals Ten New PSV Orders</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Offshore Ship Designers has sealed ten new design contracts for large diesel-electric Platform Supply Vessels for two major offshore operators building at three shipyards in Brazil, Japan and Spain. Swire Pacific Offshore Operations (Pte) Limited has ordered four IMT-997 Platform Supply Vessels to be built by Universal Shipbuilding Corporation in Japan and four sister vessels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan: ClassNK Releases New Guidelines for Gas Fuelled Ships</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As regulations curbing atmospheric pollution and greenhouse gas emissions grow stricter amid stronger calls for a greener shipping industry, attention is turning to the potential of natural gas as a cleaner alternative to liquid fuel oil. Liquefied natural gas is widely used on vessels designed to transport the commodity and has started to be introduced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norway: GMC Yard Carries Out Modification on AMC Connector</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The AMC Connector is known as the largest and most advanced cable- and pipe-laying vessel for deep ocean operations. The vessel will be docked at GMC Yard in Buøy outside Stavanger until March 11th 2012. The 156-meter long multi-purpose vessel, AMC Connector, is an advanced ship with a high cargo capacity, a variety of special [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia: Major Shipbuilding Contract for Severnaya Verf</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[St. Petersburg based JSC Severnaya Verf Shipyard has been contracted by the Defense Ministry to construct 13 warships for the Russian Navy. The contract includes construction of six corvettes of the Project 20385 and the Project 20380, six Project 22350 frigates and a reconnaissance ship. Official keel-laying ceremony of the Project 20385 lead corvette Gremyaschiy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India: Ministry Makes Efforts to Secure Release of Maritime Personnel Captured by Pirates</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The instances of piracy off the coast of Somalia have been a constant source of concern for the Government. The Ministry of Shipping, in close co-ordination with the Ministry of External Affairs, Indian Navy and other agencies has been making discreet efforts to secure the release of Indian maritime personnel. So far, 242 Indian crew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Van Oord Deploys Sophisticated Survey Vessel to Liberia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sophisticated survey vessel deployed by a Dutch-based international port dredging and marine engineering company, Van Oord, arrived in Liberia two days ago. The vessel will be utilized for conducting survey for debris and sand clogged at the seaports of Monrovia and Greenville in Montserrado and Sinoe Counties. The survey will be conducted in order [...]]]></description>
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