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Wärtsilä introduces a lifeboat for buildings, a product that should never exist, at Slush Helsinki 2018

4 December 2018

Lifeboats for buildings

Wärtsilä Corporation 4 December 2018 at 08:00 AM EET – The technology group Wärtsilä launches a product at Slush Helsinki 2018 that should never see the light of day: a lifeboat for buildings. The lifeboats could be used in severe flooding and rising sea levels caused by climate change.

The lifeboat for buildings is not a real product, even though it could be. It is conceptualised and designed by Wärtsilä Ship Design and features Wärtsilä’s world-class smart technologies...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/12/04/wartsila-introduces-a-lifeboat-for-buildings-a-product-that-should-never-exist-at-slush-helsinki-2018/

Disaster Preparedness

1 December 2018

Irene K. Notias and Theodore Chouliaras

Project Connect and The Institute of Maritime Educational Studies, (IMES) present:

“NEVER FORGET”

A seminar on disaster preparedness for children ages 9 to 99 that raises awareness that to act proactively saves lives!

The training seminar on the prevention and management of natural disasters

Fires (urban / forest)
Floods-Winds
Earthquakes

We encourage the next generation to be active citizens who care about community safety & rescue

and check the governing...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/12/01/disaster-preparedness/

Firms join forces for hurricane devastated school

21 November 2018

Steelwork from REIDsteel in Christchurch, Dorset, UK, going into shipping containers to be shipped to the British Virgin Islands for the new Enis Adams Primary School on the island of Tortola.

Steelwork is on a 4,000 mile journey from Dorset in the UK to the Caribbean for the reconstruction of a primary school, devastated by hurricanes Irma and Maria last year.

Christchurch-based John Reid & Sons Ltd (REIDsteel) is leading a consortium of businesses in the UK which have joined forces to help...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/11/21/175414/

Should CentrePort invest to capacity increase?

2 November 2018

The November 2016 quakes put Wellington’s container cranes out of action for 10 months. Now CentrePort is looking at investing to accept bigger container ships. But not everyone agrees, Thomas Coughlan reports.

Wellington’s CentrePort is at a crossroads. Flush with cash after more than $170 million of earthquake insurance payouts, the port now has an opportunity to reposition itself for the future. But its proposal to dredge the harbour entrance to welcome in much bigger container ships is being...

http://container-news.com/centreport-invest-capavity-increase/

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