Equipment News – Page 160
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NewsBuoys Zoned In with Bespoke AIS
Tideland Maritime Systems has introduced a new AIS designed specifically for installation on aids to navigation, including buoys, beacons, light ships and light houses. ''V-track'' is capable of full integration into port or coastal AIS networks.
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NewsRNLI Riggers Learning the Ropes
The UK''s RNLI and training provider ITE have worked together to provide a formal accreditation for the RNLI''s boat riggers. No specific formal qualification had previously existed for marine riggers.
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NewsRescue Frame From Ocean Safety
Southampton based Ocean Safety Ltd has announced that it will be supplying the Dacon Rescue Frame within the UK.
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BSIF Launches Spill Response Training Standard
A new training initiative has been launched to improve and standardise the way workers first respond to potentially hazardous liquid spills in marine and industrial environments. The training is the idea of the British Safety Industry Federation ''s Sorbent Manufacturer''s Group whoidentified that the critical aspect of dealing with a ...
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SOLAS Approval for New SeaSafe Jacket
The Port Authority at the Port of Leixoes in Portugal has placed a large order with Isle of Wight UK based SeaSafe Systems for their new SOLAS TC180 all in one foul weather coat with integrated lifejacket.
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NewsChinese Lifeboats Cross to Europe
In a recent visit to China, where they lectured on fast rescue at Shanghai Maritime University , researchers from Sweden''s Landsort Maritime visited an emerging cluster of lifeboat and rescue boat builders in the city of Jiangyin, some 150km up the Yangtze River.
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LNG Port Warns of Customs Withdrawal
An influential group of visiting MPs has been warned that the security of Pembroke Port in Wales UK could be compromised if a decision to withdraw customs officers from the port is implemented.
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Lloyds' List International Rescue at Sea Award for 'Stolt Capability'
The crew of the Stolt-Nielsen SA ship S tolt Capability hasbeen named recipient of the 12th annual Lloyds'' List International Rescue at Sea Award for 2003. The award was presented this month at the Lloyds'' List Awards 2004 Gala in London.
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MCA Approval for SSAS
Marine telematics company MarineTrack Ltd has had its SeaGuard Ship Security Alert System (SSAS) UK flag approved by the Maritime & Coastguard Agency .
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NewsApprovals for S4 SART and MT-1 UAIS
McMurdo ''s new 4th generation SART, the S4 Rescue , is smaller and lighter than earlier SART models, enabling it to be easily carried in a liferaft or lifeboat.
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NewsShipboard Short Circuit Protection
The Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S) has developed a current limiter based on high temperature superconductors (HTS) technology to protect ship supply systems against short circuits. Short circuit currents are automatically limited to a non-critical value as soon as the current rises, owing to the sudden increase in ...
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Control System Design Award
The new AutoChief C20 propulsion control system for medium and low speed diesel engines has received a prestigious Award for Design Excellence from the Norwegian Design Council . Representatives from Kongsberg Maritime were present to accept the award at a ceremony in late November. The award came shortly after Kongsberg ...
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NewsNo Hanging About for Crash-Prone Ferry's Lifeboats
Swift action by lifeboat and davit supplier Schat-Harding has helped the Silja Line to maintain its schedules while replacing damaged lifeboats and davits. Three lifeboats and davits on the port side of the Silja Opera were damaged in a collision at St Petersburg earlier this year.
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NewsSafe Ship Gets Non-Slip Grip
Nearly half the ferry traffic in Scotland travels on the shortest route across the Firth of Clyde.
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NewsHoulder Holds Sway With HMS Dumbarton Castle's Cranes
Marine design consultancy Houlder has delivered two cranes for the Royal Navy''s Fishery Protection Vessel HMS Dumbarton Castle . The cranes replace obsolete units and will be used to handle the two RIBs on the aft deck. The RIBs, sited port and starboard, are the main part of the vessel''s ...
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NewsIn-Situ Machining Revamps Quayside Unloader
Having established that the slew ring on its 20 year old cement unloader was in need of replacement, the management of Leith & Forth Ports inScotland called in Metalock Engineering of Coventry to machine the 3.28m diameter slew ring surfaces to a high degree of flatness. This enabled a new ...
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Port of Felixstowe Upgrades Ship to Shore Cranes
The Port of Felixstowe (UK) is upgrading four of its ship to shore gantry cranes. The Morris built post-panamax cranes, which operate at Felixstowe''s Trinity Terminal , are now 18 years old and were designed to the traffic and vessel requirements of a different age.
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NewsAtlas' Southern Expansion Lifts Off
Winch specialist Atlas Winch & Hoist Services continues the expansion of their operations in the Southern UK with a relocation to new premises at Great Dunmow in Essex. The development of hire and sales activities at Atlas Winch & Hoist Services (Southern) Ltd is being led by Anton Lavery, joining ...
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NewsEuroport Debut for Shallow Water Buoys
The Europort exhibition last month in Amsterdam saw a variety of new products unveiled across the maritime spectrum. In the field of Navaids, a significant product launch from Tideland Signal was the new SB-98P shallow water polyethylene multi-purpose buoy which is particularly suited to shallow water areas, rivers and estuaries.
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NewsSatComs Extended to Smaller Vessels
One of the many exhibitors showing new marine communications equipment at Europort last month was France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications , which introduced Inmarsat Fleet 55 and 33 mobile satellite services. These mean that Inmarsat''s Fleet family of maritime communications is no longer restricted to the high seas or transoceanic ...
