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SAFETY & DISTRESS

SAFETY & DISTRESS

A new company, Chemring Marine Ltd, has been formed to handle two of the world’s leading pyrotechnic brands for the leisure and commercial marine sectors.

1st March 2007

Chemring Marine to handle marine pyrotechnics

1st March 2007

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

The Boeing Company recently announced it has concluded its purchase of C-Map, a leading provider of digital maritime cartography, data services and other navigational information.

1st March 2007

Boeing buys C-Map

1st March 2007

SAFETY & DISTRESS

SAFETY & DISTRESS

Late last year, Digital Angel Corp’s UK subsidiary Signature Industries, entered into an agreement to acquire certain assets and customer contracts of McMurdo Ltd, the UK’s premier manufacturer of emergency location beacons,…

1st March 2007

McMurdo acquired by Digital Angel

1st March 2007

SAFETY & DISTRESS

SAFETY & DISTRESS

Another gap in the effective search and rescue coverage along the coast of Africa and out into the Indian and Atlantic Oceans was filled in January with the inauguration of a new…

1st March 2007

Search and rescue boost for Atlantic and Indian Oceans

1st March 2007

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

The third annual WWF International Smart Gear Competition, launched in early February, is seeking new designs for fishing gear that reduces marine bycatch – the accidental catch and related deaths of marine…

1st March 2007

WWF’s International Smart Gear Competition

1st March 2007

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

UK supermarket ASDA has teamed up with the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) and fishermen in Sri Lanka in a bid to save thousands of endangered marine turtles that are accidentally snagged by…

1st March 2007

ASDA casts out old fishing hooks

1st March 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The South West mackerel handline fishery in Cornwall has achieved re-certification to the MSC’s environmental standard as a sustainable and well-managed fishery. As a result, it can continue to label its catch…

1st March 2007

Cornish handline mackerel re-certified

1st March 2007

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Marport, a leading subsea acoustics technology company, has announced availability of its second generation digital net sounder.

1st March 2007

Marport announces Trawl Explorer G2

1st March 2007

FISHING GEAR

FISHING GEAR

Although the main business of Vónin Ltd. is trawl, the company sees the importance in providing vessels with products that increase efficiency and safety onboard vessels.

1st March 2007

New line thrower L-75

1st March 2007

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

The popular Simrad SP90 fish finding sonar has been upgraded. A new software package offering new functionality is available from Simrad dealers around the world.

1st March 2007

Simrad SP90 software upgrade

1st March 2007