Equipment News – Page 155
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NewsNew VTS for Port of Londonderry
Transas Marine UK Ltd , in cooperation with Joss Skelton Ltd (Belfast), recently secured an order for a Vessel Traffic Services system to be installed in Northern Ireland''s Port of Londonderry. Similar systems are already installed in the UK at the ports of Larne, Cardiff, Swansea, Barry, Port Talbot, Newport, ...
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Management Information Added to Cork VTS
Bremen-based Atlas Elektronik is to extend Cord Harbour Authority''s VTS network with the addition of an all-purpose Management Information System (MIS) facilitating overall port management and traffic control as well as general administration.
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NewsBuilding a Bridge to Choice
Rotterdam''s Alphatron Marine is delivering an alternative to standardised integrated bridge consoles with the introduction of the new Alphabridge design concept, which enables shipyards and owners to select the wheelhouse equipment they would like to install rather than be made to accept a full package from a single manufacturer.
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NewsRNLI In Control of New Tamar Class
Newbury UK based Radamec Control Systems Ltd (RCS) is presently trialling BridgeMaster , its new digital bridge control package, with the RNLI . The system was introduced to the market at seawork2004 .
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Ride Control for Fast Patrol Boats
Ride control specialist VTMaritime Dynamics Inc (VTMD) has won the contract to supply the stabilisation systems for the advanced Skjold Class fast patrol boats being built for the Royal Norwegian Navy .
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NewsNew Programmable Logic Controller
Controls specialist AMOT has introduced a new programmable logic controller which combines the power of a PLC with the ease of use of an embedded controller. The TomaHawk 8635A brings users a simple and flexible programming concept that allows custom and/ or pre-programmed applications to be combined and tailored to ...
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NewsBattered Buoy Makes Case for Plastic
New plastic marine navigation buoys placed recently in the Caribbean proved their durability in the toughest of circumstances when one was run over by a high speed ocean cruiser.
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NewsNavaids Show Way to Rebuilt West Bay
Tideland Signal is supplying a range of aids to navigation equipment for the £ 16.8m redevelopment of West Bay Harbour in Dorset UK which was seriously damaged by storms in 1995.
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NewsCoastal Surveillance and VTS Antennas
Atlas Elektronic GmbH has selected Easat to supply parabolic reflector antennas for the Kuwait Sea Surveillance project. The contract to supply a 5.5m reflector antenna builds upon other recent successes supplying antennas for a coastal surveillance system in Estonia as well as elsewhere in Europe and in Asia.
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NewsBack-up Power for Goteborg's New Beacons
Goteborg Hamm AB , operator of the Port of Goteborg in Sweden, has ordered Saft''s new design Sunica. plu s low maintenance rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries to provide reliable back-up power for the 34 new solar powered fairway beacons that will mark the main access channels approaching the port.
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MAIB Reports on Vessel Brush with Denmark's Bad Buoy
The British Government''s Marine Accident Investigation Branch has published its report into the contact of a British cargo ship with a navigation buoy in Denmark''s Drogden Channel earlier this year. At 0755 on 29 January 2004, the UK registered general cargo vessel Scot Venture made contact with Number 16 buoy ...
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NewsHumber Staff Top of the Class
Crews at Adsteam Humber have landed a number of professional qualifications recently, and are among the first in the UK to achieve them.
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NewsFirst Survey Vessel Simulator
The official trial of the world''s first Survey Vessel Simulator, manufactured by Transas for the Russian Ministry of Defence''s Directorate of Navigation and Oceanography ''s Kedr development project has been completed successfully.
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NewsRNLI's Lifeboat College Opens
Continuing its commitment to providing the highest possible level of training, and subsequently saving the highest possible number of lives, the RNLI has opened the unique and purpose built Lifeboat College near its Poole headquarters. The project, which cost a total of £ 25m and has an estimated annual running ...
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NewsTraining Goes to mars2 at SMM Exhibition in Hamburg
Following the split of STN Atlas Elektronik last year, much of the operation remained in Bremen with Rheinmetall Defence Electronics GmbH , which launched its new Maritime Safety and Security Training Environment (mars2) at the recent SMM Exhibition inHamburg.
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Drop Tested SART Meets New SOLAS Regs
The S.701 SART being used by Viking Life Saving Equipment claims to be the first in the world to use non-hazardous battery packs and meets SOLAS requirements for liferafts.
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NewsWinch System Upgrade in Caspian Sea
The upgrade of the 10 point winch mooring system on board the pipe lay vessel Israfil Guseinov has been successfully completed to the satisfaction of operators McDermott Caspian Contractors Inc.
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News'Thunder Horse' Gets to Texas PDQ
Dutch heavy transport shipping company Dockwise further advanced the market for moving ultra-large and heavy items by sea when it delivered the largest semi-submersible Production & Drilling Quarters (PDQ) ever built to Texas last month.
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NewsMooring Bollard Eases Alongside at SMM
TTS Marine Cranes ASA of Norway launched a new product at SMM which promises to make mooring operations safer and more cost effective. The ship mounted TTS Winch Bollard mooring system can replace mooring winches, capstan, wrapping drums and bollard normally used for mooring.
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Crane Gain Lifts Lloyds British Testing Plc
Birmingham based lifting equipment specialist Lloyds British Testing plc has acquired the Swansea engineering business Rumney Crane , which provides lifting solutions for ports and harbours. Rumney is to be integrated into Lloyds British Testing and will be called Lloyds Rumney Crane Division .
