Sunday, October 14th, 2007
The European Commission has adopted an Integrated Maritime Policy for the European Union, which has the world’s largest maritime territory, marking the first time in its 50 years that it will have a strategic approach to decision-making in Maritime Affairs. The policy was unveiled at a press conference on 10 October in Brussels, Belgium.
Sunday, October 14th, 2007
EU – The Freight Transport Package (agenda Oct 18) will encourage improvements in transport and cargo management and the use of available infrastructure through information and communication technologies; and develop the concept of green corridors to address environmental as well as safety and security concerns in the design and operation of infrastructure on the trans-European transport network. Read
Sunday, October 14th, 2007
The GAC Group has formed a strategic alliance with the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) to provide world-class weather routing solutions to help vessels navigate across the oceans in the safest and most economical way. The GAC-SMHI Weather Routing partnership, which is the second unit to be formed under the auspices of GAC Solutions,
Sunday, October 14th, 2007
TASS – Russia’s rocket Proton with three satellites of the navigation system GLONASS is to be launched on October 25, the deputy director of Moscow’s Khrunichev Space Centre, Vladimir Sychyov, told ITAR-TASS on Friday. Read More
Friday, October 12th, 2007
Arc2Earth V2 was released today! Head on over to http://www.arc2earth.com to upgrade or http://www.arc2earth.net/cs to download the new Trial version.
Friday, October 12th, 2007
With an estimated 600 in attendance from all parts of the UK, the Annual Gala Awards and Dinner were held at the Grosvenor House in London this week. This event, was chosen as the premiere event for the construction industry in the UK by the Prime Minister in 2001 and is a showcase for British
Friday, October 12th, 2007
MigMap conveys a picture of how and where the production of knowledge is currently taking place in the area of migration – and of who is participating in and has access to it. MigMap investigates precisely how the new forms of supranational governance that can be observed in the European migration regime function. It looks,
Friday, October 12th, 2007
GGP Systems has spearheaded a nationwide upgrade of local government IT following 100% successful migration of its sites to a new national address standard.The National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG): 2006 BS7666 standard is set to further underpin moves toward a definitive national address database giving councils a powerful tool to manage their own local
Friday, October 12th, 2007
Metoc has won a contract from the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) to manage a research project, which includes geomorphological and biological surveys of the Dogger Bank draft Special Area of Conservation (dSAC), an area of more than 13,000km2). In this role, Metoc will provide project management, quality assurance and checking of the research contractor’s
Friday, October 12th, 2007
When the authors of the Preamble to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea wrote this prescient phrase in 1982, few people recognized how relevant it would become to the marine world of today. Scientists are calling increasingly for ecosystem-based management of marine areas and considerable work has already been done on
