Equipment News – Page 158
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Tandem Lift Cranes for Antwerp's New Mega-Terminal
Kalmar has received an order for six super post-Panamax ship to shore container cranes from a consortium led by P&O Ports Antwerp.
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NewsNew Beacons Go In at Goteborg
Work is now in progress to mark the edges of fairways into the Swedish Port of Goteborg after they have been broadened, straightened and deepened by a major dredging programme.
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NewsInnovative Buoy System Holds Down Maintenance Costs
Eason Marine, part of Whitwell UK based XJF Plastics, has developed innovative new service exchange tower (SET) and daymark systems with the aim of reducing maintenance costs and prolonging the working lives of buoys which are often in arduous environments.
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Contracts Double for VTMS
VTMS Ltd (Vessel Traffic Management Systems) of Leicester UK have signed two major navigation aids maintenance contracts. For a five year period VTMS will, on behalf of Forth Ports PLC, service and maintain their buoys and beacons in the rivers Forth and Tay.
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NewsNew Light Buoy Shines for Pharos
Middlesex UK based Pharos Marine has added the new PM-1800 rotationally moulded polyethylene buoy to its comprehensive IALA compliant range. The new buoy is designed to provide a cost effective and lightweight buoy marker for a wide range of applications and conditions.
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Beacons Mark Abu Dhabi Port Expansion
Sea Safe Services Ltd of Abu Dhabi has installed two large unitised beacons from Tideland Signal together with aids to navigation buoys and ancillary equipment at the new port of Mussafah, Abu Dhabi.
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Wind Farm Consultation
The British Government has stated that it will not site wind farm developments where they could present any danger to navigation.
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New AIS As Deadline Nears
Simrad released a new Class A AIS unit last month designed to reduce the overall cost of ownership in order to meet the budget demands of owners and operators required to install this technology by the end of the year. The A180 features full AIS functionality but takes a ''no ...
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NewsNew VTS Unifies South Wales Ports
A landmark marine control centre which will for the first time enable all commercial shipping entering or leaving the five Severn Estuary ports in South Wales operated by Associated British Ports (ABP) was officially commissioned late last month. ABP has invested £ 600,000 developing Severn VTS the advanced new VTS ...
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News'Broadband at Sea' for Trinity House
Inventor of the radio and Nobel Prize winner Guglielemo Marconi would be pleased that the current incarnation of the company he founded in 1900 has been selected by the UK''s Trinity House lighthouse service to supply, install and maintain the first SeaTel 4003 ''Broadband at Sea'' system to be ordered ...
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Transas Adds Value at seawork2004 Exhibition with VAR Status
Transas Ltd , which will be represented at seawork2004 by Transas Marine , has received Value Added Reseller (VAR) status for the IC-ENC (International Centre for ENCs) official electronic nautical charts.
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NewsSpain and Sweden Upgrade VTS
Norcontrol IT has been selected to supply upgrades for the VTS system at the Port of La Coruna in Spain. A new system based on Norcontrol IT''s VTMIS 5060 will be in place by this August with added AIS data and information management functionality.
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'Crescent Highway' Paves Road to Security in MCA Trial
Crescent Marine Services , part of the Southampton based Crescent Group , has been specifying the ultra-compact ''Ocean Alert'' Ship Security Alert System (SSAS) from the global satellite based telematics information services provider Satamatics.
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News'QM2's Gigantic Safety Requirement
Cosalt Safety and Protection , the UK distributor for McMurdo pyrotechnics, electronics and lights, supplied 6,061 of its Premier Lifejackets fitted with McMurdo''s L7 tamper-proof lifejacket lights for the recently commissioned cruise liner Queen Mary 2 before its maiden voyage.
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NewsNew Space Efficient Free Fall Lifeboat
Aberdeen UK based Survival Craft Inspectorate Ltd has introduced the new SC59FF free fall lifeboat as a cost effective safety system for cargo ships, tankers and offshore platforms. By optimising the interior layout of the new 5.9m lifeboat, SCI''s designers have achieved an exceptional 25 passengers carrying capacity.
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NewsCat Provides Lifting Fit For A Queen
Finning (UK) has secured a deal to provide a Cat TH560B Telehandler to Cruise and Passenger Services Ltd forhandling work with the new luxury liner Queen Mary 2 .
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NewsSheerlegs Teamwork Combine on Precision Lift Operation
Smit Heavy Lift has undertaken a series of lifts in the Port of Rotterdam discharging the Chinese cargo barge Sainty 1 , which was laden with 18 inland vessels and barges. This was the fourth such discharge of its type, performed on behalf of Chinese shipbuilders STIG .
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NewsTheme Park Boat Lift Beats Clock
Birmingham based nationwide lifting equipment specialist Lloyds British Testing has beaten the clock to get two 40 tonne pleasure boats back in the water in time for the busy season at the Thorpe Park theme attraction.
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NewsCranes Get A Lift In Tilbury
One of the most challenging aspects of a massive logistics exercise currently underway at the UK Port of Tilbury was carried out late last month with the barge transport of three large ship to shore container cranes.
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NewsMSS To Occupy Minimal Space at seawork
First time seawork exhibitor Mobile Shelter Systems (MSS) will be showing an innovative Storage and Transport Frame initially developed for the military market to provide a flexible modular load system interoperable with all modes of transportation including ISO containers and aircraft cargo pallets.
