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Telescope Antennas are Shipped to Chile

The German heavy lift operator BBC Chartering, of Leer, is nearing the end of a contract to transport radio telescope antennas for the currently largest cosmic project on earth, the ALMA observatory.

This international partnership project aims at further studying the universe and is located in the Chilean Andes.
Auckland Loses Out to Tauranga

Industrial strife at the port of Auckland has prompted Maersk Line to move its Southern Star container service, operated in conjunction with Malaysia’s MISC, to rival New Zealand port Tauranga.

Strikes by 327 of Auckland port’s 500 employees forced the closure of two container terminals.

Pressures & Lessons

It seems to me that in the ferry world the sky is dark with a variety of (mother carey’s?) chickens coming home to roost. Never have there been so many apparently intractable pressures, some age old, others quite new.

Competition is as great as ever but is exacerbated above and beyond the manageable by the soaring cost of fuel.

New Tanker Berth for London Gateway

On the 15th december 2011 DP World’s London Gateway and Shell celebrated the official opening of a ‘state of the art’ tanker jetty at London Gateway.

This new facility will deliver a quarter of all aviation fuel to the airports in the South East of England from Stanford-le-Hope, Essex.

Sea Breezes, worldwide shipping magazine

News extracts from the latest and recent issues of Sea Breezes, the Worldwide Shipping Magazine. The full text of each item, along with other news, is in our print magazine, available via subscription here or through all good newsagents.

Military to End Rescue Flights Around UK Coast

Maritime Log | Wed, 18 Jan

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In a move to save money, the British Government is going ahead with plans to privatise the search and rescue services operated around the coast by the Royal Navy and ...

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Ferries ‘To Be Hit’

Maritime Log | Wed, 18 Jan

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The ferry shipping association Interferry, says that ferry operators in northern Europe face a near-impossible choice in trying to meet the 2015 deadline for ultra-low sulphur emissions from bunker fuel ...

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Grimsby’s Vehicle Trade will be Boosted by New River Terminal

Maritime Log | Wed, 18 Jan

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A river terminal is to be developed at Grimsby in a boost to increase the size of car carriers that can be handled at the port under a £25mn investment ...

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Technology ‘Made all the Difference’ in Rescue

Maritime Log | Wed, 18 Jan

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Seven seamen were rescued after their cargo ship sank following a collision with a chemical tanker 240 miles south-south-west of Lands End at around 0330 on Dec 9....

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The Rolls-Royce of Offshore Supply Ships for The North Sea

Maritime Log | Wed, 18 Jan

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Rolls-Royce, of Derby, has won a £10mn order to design and equip two offshore supply ships for the Gulf Offshore North Sea ...

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Naval Update

Naval Focus | Wed, 18 Jan

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US NewsIn front of a crowd of 5,500, the US Navy’s latest nuclear hunter killer submarine, USS Mississippi, was commissioned during a ceremony held at The Electric Boat Company’s shipyard ...

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MISC to Sell its Boxships

Asia-Pacific | Wed, 18 Jan

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As reported last month, Malaysia’s largest shipping company, MISC, is withdrawing from the container ship ...

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Chinese Ministry Plans to Consolidate Its Shipyards

Asia-Pacific | Wed, 18 Jan

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China’s government plans a massive consolidation of shipyards so that the 10 largest players control 70% of the nation’s shipbuilding, Lloyd’s List has ...

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Lifelines, Costs and Subsidies

Ferry World | Wed, 18 Jan

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A concern to report prior to Christmas were the well publicised logistical problems on the Isle of Man caused by their principal freight lifeline, IOM Steam Packet’s Ben My Chree, ...

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Alderney To Loch Linnhe

Coastal Commentary | Wed, 18 Jan

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The view of Isis 674,’78 in drydock at Troon, which with her sister Burhou I were for 17 years mainstays of Alderney Shipping’s various Channel Island services, indicates a change ...

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Terra Marique : A Unique Delivery System

Coastal Commentary | Wed, 18 Jan

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I’ve long thought that more heavy and awkward items should be transported and delivered around our coasts, even to beachheads, rather than seizing up the roads....

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UKHO Sells SevenC's and Chartworld

From the Lookout | Wed, 18 Jan

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The UKHO, an agency owned by the Ministry of Defence, best known for charting the world’s oceans for more than 200 years, has announced the sale in November 2011 of ...

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Feature Extracts from the Latest Print Issue of Sea Breezes Magazine

Highlighted Feature
Keith Tantlinger  - The Man Behind the Container

The small city of Escondido in Southern California is nearly but not quite a suburb of the still growing port city of San Diego in Southern California. It is here that Keith Tantlinger spent his later years, before passing on recently at the good age of 92 years.

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The “United States”

The Cunard White Star passenger liner “Queen Mary”, 81,235grt, held the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic from 1938 until 60 years ago when it was gained by the new passenger ship “United States”, 53,329grt, owned by the New York-based United States Lines. She was the last traditional passenger liner to hold the title of the fastest ship on the North Atlantic.

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All at Sea - The Scilly Islands

Off the far southwest coast of the British Isles, 28 miles out into the Atlantic Ocean, lie the Scilly Islands. They comprise an archipelago of well over a hundred low-lying islands and rocky islets of which just five are inhabited.

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