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We had a nice little project just before METS, working with a new client. Dutch company Newthex makes hatches, doors and elevators for superyachts, naval ships and commercial vessels and needed new A4 brochures in time for the show. We were approached to write the text. The word count wasn't huge but each one had to count, and time was in short supply. All went well, and it was great to visit the stand and see the brochures looking great. www.newthex.com
Newthex – Maritime Doors, Hatches and Elevators
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Newthex develops and manufactures watertight and weathertight doors and hatches whether it be hinged or sliding for your yacht or vessel.Day 2 at METS in Amsterdam. The show seems to get bigger every year and it’s very busy. Photo shows the press room - quiet at the moment with most of the journos out and about on the show floor.
Armistice Day - just outside Southampton we have a lovely park called the Royal Victoria Country Park that overlooks Southampton Water and up into the port. From 1863 to 1966 it was the site of an immense military hospital. It had its own pier from which the wounded were unloaded directly into the hospital.
All that remains now is the chapel, today a museum and and cafe and, tucked away at the far end of the park, a Commonwealth War Cemetery.
We were down there today, It's a beautiful spot on the side of a hill; well kept, the tomb stones clean with each name easy to read along with the date of death and the regiment, and often the age they were when they died. So many of them were in their teens as the vast majority there are from the First World War.
As well as being a beautiful and frequently visited site, what is also comforting is its inclusiveness. For lying alongside all the English, Scots, Irish, Australians etc are many Germans, brought there no doubt as wounded prisoners of war, and treated one would hope with the same care and respect as everyone else, in both life and death. They were probably just kids as well.
For anyone who has time to spare when they are in Southampton (or Hamble), the park is the best place to watch the cruise and container ships entering and leaving the port, and the cemetery is just a ten minute walk through the woods from the cafe.
Time for one of our occasional updates from here at ClearLine - it's been a busy summer with, as usual, a wide variety of projects. We've had some M&A activity to work on, with our focus on the post acquisition activities as the targets are integrated into the purchasers. Brand alignment, customer and market communications, website integration etc. All good fun. Other projects have involved research and writing copy for marketing publications in sectors including maritime defence & security, offshore wind power, marine access and ground effect vehicles as well as our usual tech, safety and marinas work.
We're also currently working on a number of interesting proposals in both the commercial and leisure marine sectors.
Two weeks now until the METS event in Amsterdam, so lots to do in the run-up to that. Always an interesting and sociable show!
Retour en images sur La Ciotat Shipyards au Monaco Yacht Show, édition marquée cette année par l’annonce de l’attribution du projet 4000 tonnes à MB92 La Ciotat.
Highlights of La Ciotat Shipyards at the Monaco Yacht Show 2018. An edition marked by the awarding of the 4000-tonne project to MB92 La Ciotat.
Un grand merci à :
Patrick Boré @Aykut Ozgulsun @Pepe Garcia-Aubert @Bernard d'Alessandri @Ben Mennem @Nicolas Bruni @Chantal Lemeteyer @Ico Vergouwe @Marianne Hendriks @Gerold Schwarberg
Un partenariat qui accélère les ambitions mondiales de La Ciotat Shipyards
Yacht Club De Monaco #monacoyachtshow #superyacht #megayacht #yachting
An impressive yard! You can't say that Damen doesn't lack ambition. Cant wait to see, and write about, the vessels and other projects that come out of it.As Damen takes operational control of Damen Shipyards Mangalia, we join Managing Director Chris Groninger for a closer look at the group’s plans for the future. magazine.damen.com/editors-choice/putting-mangalia-on-the-map/
The way the British government mishandled the translation of critical Brexit papers into the other EU languages is deeply embarrassing for many of us in the UK who are already ashamed of our lack of language education but had hoped that our own government could at least have done a decent job of such an important exercise. London is of all places full of native speakers of all the various languages - it really shouldn't have been that difficult.
We do a lot of 'text-washing' for mainland European clients, and it is interesting that it is those that already speak / write the best English are the ones most keen to get their press releases and articles tuned so that they are 100%. Perhaps it is because, as in all things, the more you know of a subject (and a language), the more aware you are of the gaps in your knowledge. This latest debacle only serves to demonstrate how little the UK understands or values anyone else's languages, which is hugely depressing. Will our government learn something from this episode and put more emphasis on language teaching at schools? It seems doubtful, based on past form. Figures show that since the Brexit vote two years ago the proportion of school children learning a second language has fallen even further.
Brexit translation gaffe shows deeper cluelessness
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Government’s white paper jarred with native speakers of some other EU languagesI didn't know about this until now. Fascinating story... I've always been a big admirer of 'Pioneering Spirit'. It's not a thing of beauty, but you can't help but be impressed by the engineering...
The ship tycoon, the €100m scam and an epic battle for justice
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When fraudsters embarked on an elaborate sting, they made one big miscalculation: their victim