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#IMDOreview - The Irish Maritime Development Office (IMDO) latest Weekly Market Review has among the following stories below.

Irish Maritime News: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) received a record number of submissions in relation to Dublin Port's Dumping Plan as reported on Afloat.ie following the port's most recent application to dump spoil in Dublin Bay.

Global Maritime News: E.U Ministers Agree to Implement TEN-T - The EU transport ministers convened at the first day of the TEN-T Days in the Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam on Tuesday of this week.They discussed the process of implementing the Trans-European Transport Network: new challenges and opportunities, new technologies and mobility patterns for passengers, as well as digitalization and automation of freight transport.

Leaders of the U.K Shipping Industry Concerned with Brexit - Members of the U.K.’s shipping community are concerned about the future of London’s role as a global centre of ship financing, brokering and insurance in the case of a British exit from the European Union.

Although the U.K. has long lost its status as the world’s top ship-owning nation, the maritime business contributes an annual $6.5 billion to the economy, with some 80% of business from abroad, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago