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Burger Boat Gets $2.9m
August 05 , 2008
Governor Jim Doyle announced a $2,880,128 project that will support improvements to the Burger Boat Company’s facility at the Port of Manitowoc. The award is positioned to spur economic growth in the city of Manitowoc and the surrounding area.
“The Burger Boat Company is a valued partner in Wisconsin’s economy, and a valued part of Wisconsin’s history,” Governor Doyle said. “I am pleased to provide assistance for this project will benefit the Burger Boat Company, the Port of Manitowoc, and the economy of the region and the entire state.”
Burger Boat Company will receive $2,304,102 for the project from the state’s Harbor Assistance Program, and the company will provide the required 20 percent match, $576,026. The Burger Boat project involves dock rehabilitation, dredging, and paving of the boatyard to provide safe access to a recently installed launch well. The improvements will facilitate meeting current production and delivery demands.
Created in 1979, Wisconsin’s Harbor Assistance Program helps harbor communities maintain and improve waterborne commerce. Projects typically involve dock reconstruction, mooring structure replacement, dredging and the construction of facilities to hold dredged material.
Since the program began, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) has administered over $61 million in matching funds for 62 port preservation and improvement projects.
Wisconsin’s harbors move 40 million tons of goods worth over $7 billion each year and support 11,400 jobs. Burger Boat Company builds custom motor yachts, in aluminum and/or steel, up to 60 m (200 ft.).
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Dubai Maritime City
August 05 , 2008
Adding to Dubai’s portfolio of lucrative development projects, Dubai Maritime City looks be yet another world first. Mark Burns from Property-Dubai.tv explains:
Described as the world’s first purpose built maritime centre, Dubai Maritime City is a state of the art development zone, designed to act as a regional hub for the maritime business in Dubai. A genuinely mixed use development, Dubai Maritime City will also offer a range of luxury residential and commercial opportunities ensuring that the area becomes a focal point for the near 5,000 regional maritime companies working in Dubai. As well as the residential, industrial and commercial areas, the development will also include a large maritime research academy, designed to offer the companies in the regional access to the very latest developments and technology within the marine industry.
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As with many of the free zone development areas in Dubai, Maritime City is designed to create a regional hub of sector specific companies. Within the development, there will be a focus on six major sectors within the maritime industry: marine services, marine management, product marketing, marine research and education, recreation and ship design and manufacturing. The only facility of its kind in the world, Dubai Maritime City seems set to become a global ‘centre of excellence’ for the maritime industry.
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Attack of the Jellyfish
August 05 , 2008
Blue patrol boats cruise along the coastline of beaches huge nets skimming the water's surface. The flag is now blue- an unfamiliar color to many in beach safety, but warns of jellyfish.
Jellyfish swarm
Within only 2 weeks, 300 people on
Barcelona 's bustling beaches were treated for stings, and 11 were taken to hospitals.
Across the world, and appearing now in places unseen before, jellyfish are becoming more numerous and more widespread, forcing beaches to close and clogging fishing nets.
While jellyfish invasions are a nuisance to swimmers and a hardship to fishermen, for scientists they are a source of more profound alarm, a signal of the declining health of the world's oceans.
"These jellyfish near shore are a message the sea is sending us saying, 'Look how badly you are treating me,' " said Josep-Maria Gili, one of the world's leading jellyfish experts, who has studied them at the Institute of Marine Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council in Barcelona for more than 20 years.
The increase is affected by numerous factors: severe overfishing of natural predators such as tuna, sharks and swordfish; rising sea temperatures caused in part by global warming; and pollution that has depleted oxygen levels in coastal shallows.
Within the past year, there have been beach closings because of jellyfish swarms on the in France, the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, and at Waikiki and Virginia Beach in the .
Then there is rising level of ocean pollution, which reduces oxygen levels and visibility in coastal waters. While other fish die in or avoid waters with low oxygen levels, many jellyfish can thrive in them. And while most fish need to see to catch their food, jellyfish, which filter food passively from the water, can dine in total darkness.
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