Equipment News – Page 139
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NewsThe 20 Years That Lost the Sextant
New ways of doing things tend to insinuate themselves into an industry’ s consciousness until one day you get out of bed and realise that everything has changed. For centuries the sextant was the most important navigation tool after the chart and compass. Suddenly today it is hard to find ...
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NewsMCA Upgrades UK AIS Network
The UK' s Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) has implemented Phase 3 of the UK AIS network following successful Factory/Site Acceptance (FAT/SAT) testing of Kongsberg Norcontrol IT software upgrades to its C-Scope User Interface.
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NewsPort of Mobile Resorts to PORTS
The Port of Mobile, Alabama in the USA has become the 14th location in the nation to install the Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (PORTS), developed and operated by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide accurate real-time oceanographic and meteorological data to mariners that can significantly reduce the ...
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NewsGMDSS Upgrade at Lairdside Maritime Centre
Lairdside Maritime Centre has recently re-equipped its GMDSS Suite in order to continue providing realistic operator training across a range of subject specialisations. The new equipment configuration is centred around Furuno equipment that is ' live' and meets all the AMERC examination requirements. The suite has been developed as three ...
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NewsWorkboat Bridge Makes Europort Debut
Radio Holland’ s presentation at the recent Europort Maritime exhibition in Rotterdam focused on complete bridge systems, with no separate standalone equipment on the company' s stand.
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NewsSolar Power for Irish Lights
Following a competitive tender process, Drogheda Port Company has awarded Hydrosphere UK Ltd the contract for the upgrade to solar power of all of its seaward and estuarial navigational aids.
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Navaid Reflectors for Collision Protection Systems
UK based Firdell Radar Reflectors Ltd is now offering turnkey solutions for floating object collision protection. The objective is to enhance both the visual and radar visibility of high value maritime floating objects such as Single Point Mooring Buoys, barges and towed payloads.
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NewsOnboard Doppler Docking System Launched
SAM Electronics has introduced SAM 4683, a new IMO and DNV compliant dual-axis doppler log for provision of onboard docking information by calculating a vessel’ s transversal speeds at bow and stern. Information is displayed continuously on a large high resolution graphic LCD together with all other relevant navigation data.
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NewsFog Signals for UK's Largest Wind Farm
Tideland Signal' s AB-560 fog signals have been chosen to warn shipping in the vicinity of what will be the UK' s largest wind farm at Lynn and Inner Dowsing in the Greater Wash, off the Lincolnshire coast.
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NewsHumber VTS Upgrade Completed
Kongsberg Norcontrol IT has completed an extensive £ 1.1m upgrade to the Humber Estuary VTS in the UK. Associated British Ports (ABP) Hull & Goole commissioned the system to ensure safety of navigation as shipping traffic in the region increases year on year.
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NewsBlessey Marine Embraces Workboat Navigator
Louisiana USA based Blessey Marine Services, which operates an inland tank barge and towing vessel fleet in the United States, will deploy the Jeppesen Workboat Navigator information service across its fllet of 50 towboats. The new system from Jeppeson Marine was developed specifically for commercial vessels operating in coastal and ...
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'Napoli' Stern Removal Gets Underway
A wreck removal operation is now underway to remove the stern section of the ill fated container ship ' MSC Napoli' from Lyme Bay on the UK' s Devon coast. After much planning and discussion Smit Salvage has been contracted by the underwriters to dismantle the remaining portion of the ...
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NewsRIN President Demands New European Vision of Galileo
Galileo, Europe' s answer to GPS, was due to be up and running by 2008 but political and corporate bickering has now pushed its operating date back to approximately 2014. At the launch of NAV07, Britain’ s major navigation conference which took place last month, the President of the ...
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NewsSatcom Upgrade on the Horizon
Reliable communication plays a central part in effective ship management whether by providing essential weather information and chart updates for vessel navigation, supporting crew communication or maintaining connectivity with shore based management.
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New Gas Detector Gets CO Too
Dutch marine equipment supplier Vetus its previous gas detector with the new model GD 1000, which in addition to flammable gases now also detects inert but deadly carbon monoxide.
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NewsFloat Switch Control in Marine Tanks
A new Mobrey magnetic float switch from Emerson Process Management is the first float switch to combine ATEX and marine approvals in one standard product.
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NewsNew Buoy Maintenance Facility at Harwich
Sheffield UK based Hodge Clemco has completed the installation of a new £ 600,000 turn-key preparation and finishing facility in a new buoy maintenance unit at Trinity House in Harwich, Essex.
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GLAs Award e-Loran Contract
The General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) have awarded a fifteen year contract to VT Communications for the provision of an enhanced Loran (eLoran) radio navigation service to improve the safety of mariners in the UK and in Ireland.
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NewsNew Buoys Light Australian LNG Terminal
Tideland Signal, the UK based aids to navigation specialist has supplied buoys and solar powered lanterns to guide tankers into the berths serving the new LNG terminal on the Burrup Peninsula near Karratha in Western Australia.
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VTMS Has Wreck Marking Success
Barwell UK based Vessel Traffic Management Systems Ltd (V.T.M.S), Barwell, UK, has completed a successful operation to mark a partially sunk wreck just off the coast of Gibraltar.
