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EC allows more state aid to ease Brodosplit privatization

FEBRUARY 21, 2012 — The European Commission has authorized an amendment to the restructuring plan and the privatization contract for Croatia’s Brodosplit shipyard and the Government of Croatia has committed to complete

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Rolls-Royce delivers advanced waterjets for LCS 5

FEBRUARY 21, 2012 — Rolls-Royce reports that has delivered the new and advanced Axial Mk1 waterjets for the Navy’s fifth Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), Milwaukee, the latest Freedom-variant LCS (see earlier story)

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Dubai crew boat gets non-toxic antifouling system

FEBRUARY 21, 2012 — Netherlands based Maritime Technology Company Micanti BV has applied its patented non-toxic antifouling system on the crew vessel Lady Rasha in Dubai. Micanti’s Thorn-D is an adhesive foil

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Hyde Guardian BWTS ordered for Russian icebreaker

FEBRUARY 21, 2013 — A 25 MW diesel electric icebreaker on order at Russia’s Baltic Shipyard for state shipping company Rosmorport FSUE is to have a Hyde Guardian HG600 Ballast Water Treatment

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Obama unveils plan for rebuilding infrastructure

FEBRUARY 20, 2013 — Today, the White House released a fact sheet on the President’s “Plan to Make America a Magnet for Jobs by Investing in Infrastructure.” Like most such documents from

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EC unveils new strategy for shipbuilding

FEBRUARY 20, 2013 — Remember LeaderSHIP 2015? Unveiled in 2003, it was the EU shipbuilding industry’s grand plan for survival in a tough world where new orders were drying up and newbuilding

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Shipowners to EU on CO2 monitoring: “Yes, but …”

FEBRUARY 20, 2013 —  A position paper issued this month by ECSA (European Community Shipowners’ Associations) says it “can see value in” a EU initiative for a Monitoring, Reporting and Verification system