Equipment News – Page 103
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NewsMini PLB certified for European use
An innovative new personal locator beacon (PLB) is now fully certified for use throughout Europe and the USA after it was recently awarded the relevant Cospas-Sarsat and product approvals.
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NewsWHOBS just the job for wave height monitoring
The problem of measuring wave height while at sea has been solved by Independent Maritime Assessment Associates.
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NewsServowatch system monitored the Olympics
The 2012 Olympics tested not just the athletic skills of sports people worldwide, but also the prowess of the organisers who had to make it a highly successful and memorable event for the participants and the global audience.
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Gas detector delivers tamperproof calibration
Maritime safety equipment innovator Martek Marine has released an MED-certified portable gas detector that can be easily and safely recalibrated onboard, providing tamperproof certification to meet the many regulations governing detector calibration.
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NewsLifting in tandem: two is better than one
A team of eight worked for five hours to load the 25m Damen Shoalbuster ‘Marineco Akela’ onto the deck of a transportation vessel at Jebel Ali Port in Dubai. Simon O’Neill of PSP talks to MJ about the details.
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Onboard boat hangars save space for USCG
US company Vigor Industrial has a long association with the US Coast Guard and is bidding for the contract to design and build the first eleven Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPCs) of its new fleet replacement programme.
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NewsIsland installed at Rosyth on schedule
The recent lifting into place of the forward island marks a “highly visible achievement” in the build of the UK’s new Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers says Babcock QEC project director Sean Donaldson.
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NewsHelp for Russia’s icy waters
A rather older but still rugged seagoing port tug is getting a new lease of life. MJ finds out that along with other upgrades, the 1974 built ‘Antey’ is getting a new, Spanish built towing winch.
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NewsAces high for umbilical reeler
A bespoke, pneumatically-operated umbilical reeler with an accompanying crash frame has been built to spool over 1,700m of 141mm diameter umbilical.
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Handling efficiency for electric units
Compared with electro-hydraulic cargo cranes, variable frequency drive cranes “can offer superior cargo handling efficiency with up to 50% reduction in energy and fuel consumption”, says Jonas Hägglund of MacGregor Cranes, part of the Cargotec Group.
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Anchor puts shackles to shame
New Zealand based Manson Anchors recently completed seabed testing on its Boss anchor, producing results that even surprised the company’s testing team.
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NewsGains for self contained winches
A stand alone hydraulic anchor and mooring winch system that benefits from plug-and-play installation is gaining ground, according to Jens Meldal of TTS.
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NewsRecord breaking quay cranes arrive in UK
The arrival of Britain’s largest ever quay cranes at DP World’s London Gateway terminal was always going be challenging, “but the ETA at one point was almost changing hourly”, Sheila Armstrong of Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) tells MJ.
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NewsTransferring the knowledge
With every passing year, mentoring in the maritime industry becomes progressively more important, yet at the same time progressively more difficult, Murray Goldberg, CEO of Marine Learning Systems told MJ.
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NewsMarin Port Authority renews AtoN buoys
Barcelona based aids to navigation manufacturer and distributor Almarin has supplied six new buoys for Port Authority of Marín and Ría de Pontevedra as part of a program to improve the AtoN in this natural harbour.
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NewsSuccessful demo of GPS jamming back-up
Technology to automatically counter the threat of GPS jamming has been successfully demonstrated for the first time, it was announced last week.
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Navigation bonus from thermal imaging camera
The Genoa Pilot Corps has put a thermal imaging camera on board one its pilot boats in order to locate as quickly as possible any pilot that might fall between vessels during a transfer.
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News3D delivers navigation surprise at Poole
Cardiff based 3D software and systems firm GeoVS has completed the latest delivery of its C-Vu 3D Vessel Traffic System (VTS), which has been installed at the port of Poole on the south coast of the UK.
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NewsSealite starts buoy production in the UK
Australia based navaids manufacturer Sealite Pty Ltd has introduced its new Trident-2600 Ocean Buoy, the first Sealite buoy to be built in the United Kingdom.
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NewsA new Buzz in nearshore communications
Coastal and nearshore orientated workboat operators will take interest in a new system which allows for automatic communications switching.
