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Singapore to uplift itself as an international maritime centre

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Singapore Ministry is all set to strengthen Singapore’s position as an international centre of maritime industry and trade. Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam introduced a fresh tax incentive to help ship broking to develop, and also declared that the existing incentives would be extended to give momentum to maritime businesses.
This new attempt to assist marine industries has been receiving reat applause from the industry observers and described as a major step in gaining an important status in world trade. Experts opined that the inclusion of ship management fees under qualifying tax-exempt income is a push to shipping industry that helps it goes a long way ahead. Presently ship management fee income is generally not exempted from tax and this has been one The new bill also expanded GST zero-rating for the marine industry to raise the competitiveness of the maintenance, repair and overhaul sector here.
 

Opens up a sea of information with ‘My Maritime’ – another sensational product from Marine BizTV

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 It often takes a painstaking effort to search information in the cyber world. Most times we feel at sea when countless information gets dumped on our desktop, and it becomes a junkyard of disposable goods hiding underneath the valuable items that we are looking for. Such searches also lack the specificity to give us the exact results to our queries.  
As to crack this problem, Marine BizTv, world’s first ever exclusive maritime news network, launched My Maritime, the first desktop application solely made up to get maritime information without the irksome task of searching. This dynamic application makes the search for maritime news easier than ever and as well the user can bring news onto his desktop instead of going after them.
My Maritime is an ensemble of unique features that cater the essential requirements of a user when he starts exploring maritime information. Those include videos of maritime events and other programmes, news updates, archives of news and videos, search tool to find the contacts to organizations and their leaders, twitter, a comprehensive lexicon of maritime jargons, a calendar to schedule the events for a year, and much more. The smart indexing of My Maritime helps the user not to get baffled while trying to get what news he wants. The news items are distributed in separate clusters so that they could be found out with no sweat. My maritime is very easy to install and can be downloaded for free from http://www.marinebiztv.com/mymaritime

 

HELLA MARINE INTRODUCES THE NEXT GENERATION LED LIGHTING

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Innovative, resilient, simple, and in any sense, it is outstanding! Hella Marine has proved that it could never stops adding glory to its revolutionary journey since 1925 by unveiling Generation II LED Mega Beam Floodlight, a spellbinding invention in the industry of onboard lighting.   With up to three times the light intensity as the previous version, the upgraded lamp provides powerful, energy-efficient and reliable close-range illumination on commercial and recreational craft.
    Employing advanced optics and LED technology, the new Mega Beam Floodlight produces homogeneous, high-intensity, white light.  Consuming only 15W, the power-saving unit uses less than 30% of the energy which is needed to operate a 55W halogen lamp and yet provides comparable light performance.
 
For an ultra-long service life, Hella marine Multi-volt electronics ensure consistent illumination and circuit protection across a range of inputs from 9-30V DC.  Completely sealed, the durable floodlight features a shock-, vibration-, impact- and UV-resistant housing, a heavy-duty die cast aluminum body and a reinforced, clear glass lens.  
    Simple to install, the innovative Generation II LED Mega Beam Floodlight from Hella marine comes pre-wired with 2m of marine cable and includes stainless steel mounting hardware.  It measures 145mm H x 110mm W x 83mm D.
    Contact Hella marine Headquarters, 81/83 Ben Lomond Crescent, Pakuranga, Auckland 1706, New Zealand.  +64 9 577 0000; Fax: +64 9 576 2476.  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; www.hellamarine.com. Hella marine Europe, Fahrzeugteile Austria, Fabriksgasse 2, A-7503, Grosspetersdorf, Austria.  +43 3362900 1173; Fax: +43 3362900 1118.  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

                                       

 


 

   

DAM999 embarks on its voyage with God’s blessings

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The ‘Pooja’ of DAM999, the most awaiting Hollywood film by the illustrious writer and businessman, Sohan Roy, was held on 15th February 2010 at Anjumana Temple in Cochin. The outstanding personalities from film industry like Padmasree Thotta Tharani, Ajayan Vincent, Pattanam Rasheed were present along with Mr. Sohan Roy at the auspicious occasion. The shooting of the movie, will start on March 1st 2010.

 

 

Marshall Islands positions to be the third largest open registry

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Hong Kong: The Marshall Islands Registry positions to be the world’s third largest open registry with more than 52.3 million gross tons and 2,102 registered vessels. It was the World Fleet Monitor, published by Clarkson Research Services which ranked the Marshall Islands as third in its January 2010 launch issue. 

The publication states that Marshall Islands was also the fastest growing of the top four registries last year. The Registry, which is administered by International Registries, Inc. (IRI), attributes its success to the continued decentralization of registry services to its 20 worldwide offices, its client service ethos and the fact that it continues to post top safety and environmental scores with global port States.

Marshall Islands Registry is marked as the only major open registry to be included on the US Coast Guard’s Qualship 21 roster for four years in a row. The Registry also maintains its white list status on both the Paris and Tokyo MoUs. Clarkson’s also notes in the World Fleet Monitor that the Marshall Islands has the youngest fleet among the top ten registries.

 

 

 

Source: Seatradeasia

   

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