Equipment News – Page 168
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NewsAIS Training Course to Hit the Road
Kongsberg Simrad Ltd has developed a one day course to give participants a basic insight into the mandatory requirements for Automatic Identification Systems (AIS), as well as its principles, application and benefits.
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NewsTideland Signal Appointed UAIS Distributor
Marine Data Systems of South Africa has appointed Tideland Signal of Surrey UK as distributor for AIMS MIII, its Automatic Identification System to aid tracking and data exchange between ship, shore and aids to navigation at sea.
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Street Cranes Lift Princess' Plymouth Expansion
Luxury sector boatbuilders Princess Yachts of Plymouth UK are expanding operations with a major redevelopment programme underway at their Newport Street facility.
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NewsHagglunds Drives High Powered Towing Winches
The Engineering Business Ltd has developed a new generation of tow winches for the latest Sea Stallion cable ploughs using Hagglunds hydraulic motors and brakes. These cable ploughs are burying submarine cables up to 3m below the seabed.
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NewsGottwald Going to Jamaica
German crane manufacturer Demag Mobile Cranes GmbH has won a contract to deliver a 100 tonne HMK 300 E mobile harbour crane to Kingston Wharves Ltd of Kingston, Jamaica. The crane was shipped from Dusseldorf in June and is scheduled to begin commercial operation in Kingston this month.
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'Neptune' is King of the Ropes
The winner of Cosalt''s competition to find a product name for its latest heavy duty polysteel potting rope is Devon skipper Alan Steer who came up with the name Neptune.
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NewsNorth Sea Fleet Adds 20th Effer Crane
Two more Effer cranes have been fitted to the Boston Putford North Sea fleet of offshore vessels. The new cranes fitted to the 69m Putford Enterprises standby and support vessel, presently on contract to Shell and operating out of Great Yarmouth UK, brings the number of Effer cranes in service ...
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NewsMajor Design Enhancements for New Fuel Shut-off Valve
Higher working pressures and longer life are two of the major design enhancements on the new AMOT 4418F turbine fuel shut-off valve, which also functions as an air start for diesel engines, a fuel gas vent and an on/off control, all with under 100m/sec closing.
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NewsTrinity House Launches Life Cycle Services at seawork2002
Trinity House Lighthouse Service returns to seawork to launch new life cycle services for coastal asset owners from Stand 137. Trinity House will also have their 20m launch THL Vectis moored alongside at seawork''s floating exhibition pontoon.
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NewsMobilis Clearly Visible at seawork
The French designer and manufacturer of navaids, Mobilis, returns for seawork2002 with a selection of their buoys, solar lights, mooring and anchoring systems, aluminium towers and lighthouses up to 30m in height.
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NewsBuoyant Hydrosphere Lights Up Exhibition
After a long winter of development, the hampshirebased navaids supplier Hydrosphere UK Ltd will launch a new range of low cost navigation and regulatory buoys on Stand 126 at seawork2002.
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NewsFixed Satellite Phones Reach Small Boat Market
Iridium is a system of 66 satellites cross-linked in space and orbiting just 485 miles above Earth. Because the low-orbiting Iridium satellites are much closer to Earth than other systems (the geo-stationary Inmarsat systems orbits at 22,223 miles), it means the antenna for a satellite telephone is reduced dramatically in ...
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First African VTS Installations for Transas
Transas completed its first VTS projects in Africa last month with the installation of navi-Harbour 3000 VTS systems in the Moroccan ports of Jorf Lasfar and Mohammedia. Transas won these orders following the success of Soremar, its local distributor in Morocco and North Africa, in the international tender.
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NewsStabilised Antenna Systems Extend to Smaller Vessels
Aberdeen UK-based DMS, a subsidiary of Schlumberger Network Solutions, has launched the latest addition to the SpaceTrack 4000 portfolio of VSAT stabilised communication antenna, which facilitates VSAT communications for all maritime vessels regardless of their size.
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NewsNavigation Systems Breakthrough for Chinese Newbuild Projects
Kelvin Hughes has secured contracts to supply navigational systems for a series of Chinese vessels.
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NewsUKHO Introduces Searchable Notices to Mariners
The UKHO has enhanced the Admiralty Notices to Mariners On-Line (ANMO) service by providing a new search facility. Direct access is via or through the UKHO web address.The improved facility enables users to search for updates to paper Admiralty Navigational Charts and Publications by chart or publication number using four ...
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NewsNew Marine Fire Suppressant Fills Halon Void
More than 350 small boats are involved in fires each year in the UK alone, so an effective on board fire suppression system is essential. Until recently, Halon was thought to be the best firefighting medium for use in automatic systems but it was found to extremely damaging to the ...
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SARIS System Charts Safety at seawork
Exhibiting at seawork2002 is BMT Marine Information Systems Limited (MIS), the British Maritime Technology subsidiary which focuses on the production of user driven environmental software modelling and information systems as well as consultancy services.
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Seeing is Knowing with Demo CD
Recognising that ''a picture can be worth a thousand words'', Hampshire UK-based lifejacket manufacturer Crewsaver has introduced a safety initiative in which an interactive CD demonstrates how to maintain, re-arm and re-pack after use their entire range of air only lifejackets.
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ISU Supports IMO Casualty Guidelines as Refusal is Unacceptable
Problems in finding places of refuge for ship casualties has been a matter of concern for the International Salvage Union (ISU) for a number of years.
