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New Mobile Phone Apps for boaters on the Inland Waterways

New Mobile Phone Apps for boaters on the Inland Waterways

Numericanal is an EU funded project which includes some new mobile phone applications for the recreational boater.  The project aims to provide better access to waterway information assist with s safe boating. Safeguider helps boaters and skippers to find the safest way through busy intersections on the inland waterways, initially in France, the UK and […]

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Safety at sea!  Check your Lifejacket

Safety at sea! Check your Lifejacket

Sadly you cannot buy a lifejacket that will last forever, but if you take good care of your lifejacket, it is more likely to take good care of you. When buying a lifejacket, make sure it is manufactured to an approved standard, such as ISO 12402. Take a look at the date marking to ensure […]

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Deutscher Motoryachtverband als Gastgeber der EBA-Generalversammlung

Deutscher Motoryachtverband als Gastgeber der EBA-Generalversammlung

Deutscher Motoryachtverband als Gastgeber der EBA-Generalversammlung vom 16.-17. Oktober 2016 in Berlin Generalversammlungen des Europäischen Sportschifffahrtsverbandes (EBA) werden üblicherweise in jedem Frühjahr vom EBA-Sekretariat und im Herbst von einem nationalen Mitgliedsverband in dessen Heimatland organisiert. Im Herbst 2015 war der DMYV Gastgeber für die EBA-Generalversammlung, die er vom 16.-17. Oktober in Berlin ausgerichtet hat. Der […]

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Donnau (Danube) Apps für Smartphones

Donnau (Danube) Apps für Smartphones

Deutsch & English In addition to the „DoRIS mobile” app there another two smart phone apps are now available one for Slovakia (SlovRIS) and one for Hungaria (PannonRIS). In general they have the same content, giving information about the Danube (water level, locks etc.). In the “SlovRIS” under “Settings” (last point) you can choose between […]

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CEVNI 5 Published

CEVNI 5 Published

The EBA is pleased to report that the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Inland Transport Committee has recently released the fifth revision of the European Code for Inland Waterways (CEVNI), Pan-European instrument regulating the navigation on the E-waterways network as a part of its work towards smooth and efficient inland water transport across […]

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Under present plans TTIP will not extend to recreational craft

Under present plans TTIP will not extend to recreational craft

The European Commission has confirmed to the European Boating Association (EBA) that at the present time there has been no agreement between the EU and US negotiators to specifically address recreational craft in the context of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) sectoral regulatory discussions. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is primarily […]

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How to handle your end-of-life boat: Boat DIGEST guidelines released

How to handle your end-of-life boat: Boat DIGEST guidelines released

Boat DIGEST is an EU-funded project started in October 2013 and due to finish in September this year, addressing the problem of the end-of-life craft. The project’s main activities were to identify boat dismantling and recycling practices and locations across Europe and also to gather dismantlers and boat owners’ opinions in order to better understand […]

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Discharge of sewage from pleasure boats to be prohibited in Sweden

Discharge of sewage from pleasure boats to be prohibited in Sweden

From 1 April 2015 all pleasure boats, including foreign flagged boats, will be prohibited from discharging sewage into the lakes, internal waters and territorial waters (12 nautical miles) of Sweden.  Recreational craft listed for preservation are not subject to the ban. Sewage is any discharge of waste water and other waste from any type of […]

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Wind turbine areas in Netherlands part of the North Sea

Wind turbine areas in Netherlands part of the North Sea

Recently the Netherlands Government published their spatial planning vision for Wind at Sea. Several areas in Netherlands territorial waters are destined for the construction of wind energy production centres. In advance of this allocation changes were made to shipping lanes and TSS’s in 2013 to optimise the clustering of wind turbines in fields of sufficient […]

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