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• Coast Guard warns of holiday lights for use on ships

     (professionalmariner) The Coast Guard recognizes that many vessel owners choose to place of decorative lights onboard their vessels during the Holiday season. The Coast Guard strongly reminds vessel owners not to illuminate such lights during routine navigation unless operating in a Holiday boat parade or when the vessel is secured

• Ships off-limits at Ctg port at night, count shippers loss

    Shipping companies are losing about $0.1 million every day as ships are not allowed to enter or leave the Chittagong port at night. It takes two to three days for a ship to anchor at the port, unload and load products, but if the night navigation facility is available the

• Wrtsil and Raytheon Corporation sign a worldwide cooperation agreement for the supply of navigation

     W?rtsil?, the marine industry’s leading ship power systems integrator, has signed a new agreement with Raytheon Ansch?tz, a division of Raytheon Co., USA. Raytheon Ansch?tz is based in Kiel, Germany. The agreement extends the scope of W?rtsil?’s offering of integrated system solutions to include navigation systems, which can now be

• Oracle yacht dismasted in America s Cup Training

     (AFP)  US team Oracle’s giant trimaran broke its mast in an accident during training off San Diego, California, the America’s Cup challenger said Wednesday.  Source

• Massive fish kill keeps Asian carp at bay

     (freep)  Ellie Koon said last night was the most bizarre night of her life. Koon was among several hundred people whose task is to pick up dead fish, killed in a massive poisoning operation on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.  Source

• Massive fish kill keeps Asian carp at bay

     (freep)  Ellie Koon said last night was the most bizarre night of her life. Koon was among several hundred people whose task is to pick up dead fish, killed in a massive poisoning operation on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.  Source

• New thermal and day / night camera from Galil

    The new Galilâ?¢ is a powerful around the clock, day and night multi sensor observation head, especially developed for security applications. It allows medium range observation and detection using state of the art thermal imaging and CCD technology. Read at New thermal and day/night security camera from Galil

• UKHO steps in e-navigation

    The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office has stepped into the new era of digital maritime navigation with its first system incorporating a digitised catalogue, product viewer and passage planning tool ensuring a safer and more efficient navigational aid for the mariner.… Read at UKHO steps into e-navigation

• Australian teen crashes about sailing around the world

     (AP) An Australian teenager’s bid to become the youngest solo round-the-world sailor suffered a setback when she crashed just hours into a preliminary voyage on Wednesday.  Jessica Watson, 16, was on a 10-day test journey when she hit a 63,000-tonne freighter in a busy shipping lane off the coast of Queensland state, snapping

• Coast Guard urges mariners to GPS before the end of the Long Range Aids to Navigation Kaufsignal

     (coastguardnews) The Coast Guard is urging mariners currently using United States Long Range Aids to Navigation (Loran-C), to ensure they have a GPS navigation system aboard their vessels and become familiar with it prior to Monday, Feb. 8, 2010, when the Coast Guard will cease transmission of the Loran-C signal. 

• CG Ends LORAN-C

     (marinelink)Vice Adm. Robert J. Papp speaks at a ceremony to mark the shutting down of the LORAN-C signal at the Navigation Center in Alexandria, Va., Feb.

• Kenneth Koo HKSOA elected chairman

    Last night’s 53rd Hong Kong Shipowners Association Annual General Meeting saw Kenneth Koo of Tai Chong Cheang Steamship elected to succeed Anglo-Eastern’s Peter Cremers as chairman of the association. Mr Koo had served as vice chairman of the body for the past two years. Alan Tung, from Island Navigation, has

• HPUK is a deep shade of green

    Hutchison Ports (UK) Limited (â??HPUKâ??) has pledged to reduce its carbon footprint. The Port of Felixstowe, Harwich International Port and London Thamesport have signed up to the 10:10 initiative; a national drive to cut the UKâ??s carbon emissions by 10% during 2010. Read at HPUK goes a deeper shade of green

• Qatar Navigation Company and Qatar Shipping Company approves merger

    Qatar Navigation Company and the Qatar Shipping Company are to merge, after the companiesâ?? boards of directors approved the plan. Read at Qatar Navigation Company and Qatar Shipping Company approve merger

• Omega Navigation: Clear Seas Ahead

    Marine transportation provider Omega Navigation Enterprises Inc reported an adjusted third-quarter profit that handily beat estimates, helped by term employment of its vessels. The company said its vessels employed through term time charters has enabled it to present profitable operating results, even in these uncertain times and depressed tanker market.