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POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

The latest Perkins Sabre marine diesel engines have confirmed the range’s status for achieving the highest environmental standards.

1st May 2007

Engine range is top performer

1st May 2007

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Keeping in line with its philosophy of ensuring that all its engines remain ‘state-of-the-art’, Caterpillar has refined its M 20 engine series, which has been successfully established in the market for 14…

1st May 2007

Enhanced M 20 series – many advantages for the operator

1st May 2007

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

Glendinning Marine Products, Inc., a product development company that designs, assembles, and markets electro-mechanical devices for use in the RV and marine industries – has announced the completion of its newest product…

1st May 2007

Smart way to control propulsion systems

1st May 2007

POWER & PROPULSION

POWER & PROPULSION

PrimeServ Frederikshavn has successfully completed another major main engine overhaul aboard a large, Westrybflot-owned factory freezer trawler.

1st May 2007

PrimeServ’s latest trawler overhaul

1st May 2007

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Sunwell Technologies Inc. of Canada continues to sell its Deepchill Variable-State Slurry Ice Systems into Japan. In December 2006, Burimy Inc. of Amakusa-city, Kumakoto, Japan installed a Deepchill System at its fillet…

1st May 2007

Constant low-temperature cooling for Japan’s Burimy Inc.

1st May 2007

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Jackstone Froster has announced its merger with the business of Fourseas Services Ltd to form the new company Jackstone Fourseas Ltd.

1st May 2007

Introducing Jackstone Fourseas

1st May 2007

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

P.S.P. Marine of Samutsakhon, just west of Bangkok, has recently signed a contract to build the first of what may become a series of freezer barges to be stationed in the Maldives.

1st May 2007

Freezer barge contract for P.S.P. Marine

1st May 2007

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Crytec was recently selected to lead the way in the EU’s FP6 IP program as the only refrigeration company to supply the latest Bubble Slurry Ice (liquid ice) technology for the new…

1st May 2007

Crytec chosen for research project

1st May 2007

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

One of the major success stories of the Dutch fishing industry is the emergence over the last decade of the Pelagic Freezer trawler Association (PFA). The association has become a major player…

1st May 2007

The PFA – a success story

1st May 2007

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS

Purpose developed for small professional vessel use across the workboat, pilot, patrol craft and fishing vessel sector to 25m LOA, the NT777 model is the first of a new digital Autopilot generation…

1st May 2007

Two new Navitron Autopilot models to make debut at Fishing 2007

1st May 2007

SAFETY & DISTRESS

SAFETY & DISTRESS

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is inviting visitors to visit its stand at Fishing 2007 to talk to staff about fishing vessel surveying or inspection.

1st May 2007

MCA at Fishing 2007

1st May 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Published annually for the past 26 years Ports of Scotland is a comprehensive reference book for shipowners, shipbrokers, charterers, the North Sea oil and fishing industries, importers and exporters and all other…

1st May 2007

Ports of Scotland 2007 Yearbook announced

1st May 2007

SAFETY & DISTRESS

SAFETY & DISTRESS

McMurdo will once again be present at Fishing 2007 in Glasgow.

1st May 2007

McMurdo at Fishing 2007

1st May 2007

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The UK event is attended by thousands of visitors from over 35 countries, all with the aim of seeing the industry’s latest products and innovations.According to the organisers, visiting Fishing 2007 is…

1st May 2007

Europe’s leading annual fisheries event

1st May 2007

NEWS

NEWS

$62m fisheries investment - The Philippine government is to invest US$62 million implementing an integrated coastal resources management project aimed at improving the management of coastal marine and fisheries resources in selected…

1st May 2007

Philippines

1st May 2007

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The well attended Edinburgh Cod Recovery Symposium received very good initial publicity. It bore a great promise of finding a golden road to the recovery of the ailing cod stocks in the…

1st May 2007

Edinburgh – what next?

1st May 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

According to WWF, an infestation of predator starfish is decimating large tracts of coral reef throughout the Philippines.

1st May 2007

WWF: predator starfish wiping out coral

1st May 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Using tiny transmitters attached to sea creatures and receivers dotted along the ocean floor, Australian scientists will track the movements of marine life and also gather vital information on climate change effects…

1st May 2007

Australian tagging & monitoring project

1st May 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Phil Reeves, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport, has announced a $30,000 investment into research to find ways to improve safety practices in Queensland’s commercial fishing industry.

1st May 2007

$30,000 for safety research

1st May 2007

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

According to the Iran Fisheries Organization, the first floating dock was inaugurated in the port of Konarak in southern Iran (Sistan-Balouchestan province) as a loading/unloading centre for fishing boats in the area.

30th April 2007

First floating fisheries dock in Iran

30th April 2007