Equipment News – Page 166
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NewsNew Training Facility for Seattle
The Pacific Maritime Institute (PMI) has selected Transas Marine USA to provide the navigational simulation systems for their new simulation and training facility which will open this summer in the Port of Seattle.
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NewsCaterpillar Takes Control at the London Boat Show
Caterpillar launched an all new electronic engine and transmission control system at the London Boat Show earlier this month. The Multi Station Control System (MSCS) allows the establishment of up to eight primary controls and eight full redundancy back-up stations on board and enables the full control of single or ...
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VTAS Automates Monitoring
VT Controls has developed a new ''open'' automation system called VTAS especially for complex applications in the industrial and marine markets.
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NewsAMOT Controls Temperatures
AMOT Controls have introduced their redesigned and significantly enhanced G Valve, a three-way temperature control valve which will should prove popular for marine diesel installations on vessels such as tugs and dredgers.
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New Cranes Buoy Up Trinity House's Services
The Trinity Lighthouse Service''s programme of upgrading its vessels'' equipment continues to bring major benefits and greatly improve operational efficiency.
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NewsStemat in Irish Sea Jack-Up Delivery
With its recent successful installation of a large jack-up rig in the Irish Sea, Stemat Marine Services of Rotterdam has proved that with the right equipment in the right place at the right time, almost anything can be lifted. But there was little room to spare when the assembled Calder ...
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Lankhorst Ropes Deliver Benchmark Clarity
It is becoming increasingly more difficult to understand the difference in the quality of mooring ropes due to new products continuously coming onto the market, each highlighting different characteristics. A benchmark which is increasingly being used to measure the performance of ropes in the maritime industry is TCLL value.
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NewsJack-Up Lifts Marine Site Investigation
Seacore has made use of a new Commachio crawler based automatic drill rig in conjunction with its Skate 3 jack-up pontoon to carry out a combined onshore and nearshore site investigation project along the route of a proposed waste water treatment works pipeline and sea outfall at Portrush in Northern ...
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NewsBarge Handling Reachstacker
Verbrugge Terminals BV in Terneuzen, The Netherlands, handles about 1.8 million tonnes of forest products each year which largely originate in Sweden and are shipped to Verbrugge by ro-ro vessel.
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Isn't It Good, Norwegians Would (Use It If They Could)
The success accruing after only three years for the Trinity House Lighthouse Estate Business Plan in the UK recently attracted a visiting party of 17 national and local government officials from Norway who would like to implement similar enlightened strategies in their own country.
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NewsBreakthrough in VTS Training at South Tyneside
South Tyneside College has become the first institution to receive MCA approval for VTS Supervisor Advancement Training. The breakthrough comes less than two years after the College was first to receive accreditation for the provision of basic training in VTS.
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NewsAtlantas Marine and Nauticast AG Launch New AIS
Somerset UK based Atlantas Marine Ltd, well known for their distribution of the very useful VideoRay mini-ROV, have entered the IMO mandated growth arena for Automatic Identification Systems (AIS).
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NewsIt's Good to Talk In a Force 8 Gale
The British Army Powerboat Team, supported by radio distributor Icom UK Ltd, circumnavigated Britain this summer in only ten days with 13 young soldiers crewing two 6.5m Humber Ocean Pro RIBs. Some of the team had never set foot in a RIB before training began for the 2,397 mile voyage.
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NewsOne-Box Gyrocompass and Motion Sensor from TSS
A new attitude and heading reference system combining gyrocompass and motion sensor in one box has been launched by the recently re-branded VT TSS Ltd of Whitney UK.
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NewsSouthampton UAIS Trial Adds Weather and Hydro Data
AIMS MIII, the universal automatic identification system (UAIS) from Marine Data Systems (MDS) of South Africa has recently completed a successful trial on the Solent conducted by Trinity House in collaboration with ABP Southampton, Red Funnel Ferries, Condor Marine and Tideland Signal, which distributes the system worldwide.
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NewsCrews Clued Up with Bespoke Boat Safety Manuals
The tragic event in the UK this summer when celebrity Chris Evans and his horrified friends watched helplessly as their skipper vanished overboard highlights the need for all persons stepping on board a boat to be fully aware of safety procedures and the location of equipment.
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NewsFast Rescue Craft Training Courses Launched
RGIT Montrose, the Aberdeen based training specialists, have launched a new range of fast rescue craft training courses for personnel in the marine and emergency response vessel industry.
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NewsBSIF Steers Debate on New PPE Directive
The first draft of the proposed new Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Directive will be released for general discussion in December 2002, according to the British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF).
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NewsMetso Gets a Load Off With Orbiting Slewing Shiploader
Metso Minerals'' Bulk Handling Division has recently delivered a unique dual orbiting slewing shiploader to the port of Jose in Venezuela. The dual unit, the first of its kind in the world capable of loading up to 2,000 tonnes per hour, is arranged to operate on two circular runways which ...
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NewsRugged New Mooring Rope from Cosalt
Cosalt Safety & Protection has introduced a new offshore mooring rope manufactured to OCIMF guidelines suitable for tankers and storage vessels using single buoy or monopoint mooring systems. It also has applications for the general fishing industry.
