Equipment News – Page 170
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NewsHazard-Free Retractable Chocks
With all of the hardware needed on a vessel, it is difficult to keep the deck clutter free.
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NewsMP Spotlights Anti-Glare Success
Solar Solve, the South Shields UK-based manufacturer of anti-glare roller screens for navigation and control room windows, has been so successful in penetrating foreign markets that its Member of Parliament, David Milliband, came to see the company at work.
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Alfred Cheyne Finds Overseas Projects for New Winch Designs
Scottish winch manufacturer Alfred Cheyne Engineering (ACE) has reacted to a downturn in its traditional fishing industry market by investing in new design and quality systems which have allowed the company to target larger and more specialist marine winching projects and customers overseas.
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United Kingdom Government Announces Light Dues Cut
The British Government''s Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions has announced that light dues paid by merchant ships and fishing vessels for aids to navigation will be reduced from 41 to 40 pence per net tonne in 2002/2003.
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NewsSyncrolan Warning System Lights North Sea
Tideland Signal''s Syncrolan offshore warning system has been chosen to mark a water injection platform (WIP) currently being added to BP''s Valhall Field in the Norwegian North Sea as part of a long term programme of investment.
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Irish Harbour Masters See Navaids Funding Boost
Ireland''s ports and harbours have seen major developments and increased operations funding over recent years, resulting in an increase for the supply of new aids to navigation.
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NewsNo Gaps in New Generation ECDIS
Transas has launched an enhanced version of its commercial Navi-Sailor navigation systems, the Navi-Sailor 3000. This system incorporates all the functionality of the Navi-Sailor 2400, the first type approved ECDIS, but adds a number of new features beyond those called for in the IMO performance standards.
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NewsVessel Traffic Services Demo Day for UK Shipping Minister
The British Shipping Minister, David Jamieson MP, visited the Port of London earlier this month and included on his itinerary a stop at the Port of London Authority''s Control Centre at Gravesend.
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Multi-Function Radar for Dredger Integration
Dutch companies Imtech Marine & Offshore and IHC Systems formally recognised their close partnership by exhibiting jointly at Oceanology International in London earlier this month.
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JRC's UAIS First to Satisfy MCA
Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) become mandatory for all newbuilding passenger ships and most cargo vessels from July of this year, with the IMO''s implementation schedule requiring all ships over 300gt to embrace the shipboard broadcast transponder system by 2008.
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NewsCO2 Monitor Designed to Save Lives
The potentially lethal consequences of a leak from CO2 bottle stores has been identified by ship owners and regulatory bodies as a major cause for concern. As well as CO2 bottle stores, a new danger has been identified with dry ice systems used in theatrical productions on board cruise ships.
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Seaweather Marine Services Acquires Strentex
Seaweather Marine Services Ltd has expanded its UK based safety and survival equipment operation with the acquisition of Strentex Immersion Suits from Vernon Carus Ltd.
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News10 Year Cover for EPIRBs
Surrey UK-based Sartech Engineering, specialists in the supply of EPIRBs and other emergency equipment, make the tempting offer of extending the warranty up to 10 years for equipment supplied directly by themselves.
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NewsDFDS Cruise to Safety at Tyneside
South Tyneside College''s Marine Safety Training has established a unique training relationship with DFDS Seaways. The Danish cruise ferry operator, which operates a regular service from the Tyne, approached the College (STC) last October regarding fire fighting training. Crew members were required to undertake breathing apparatus exercises in a smoke ...
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NewsHook Marine Unloads Calmac's Worries
Marine crane specialist Hook Marine has helped Scottish ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne (Calmac) ensure the efficient operation of its Fast Rescue Boat Launch and Recovery System.
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NewsMET Meets Marine Crane Design Challenge
MET Marine of Chesterfield UK has supplied a purpose-built 45 tonne/metre Heila HLRM.452S crane with special computer designed features to shipwrights George Prior Engineering Limited in Great Yarmouth for installation on a cruiseship for Hebridean Island Cruises Limited.
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Cargo Handling Simulator for Maine Maritime
KMSS has won a contract to supply eight workstation based Cargo Handling Simulators to the Maine Maritime Academy in the USA. The system is being delivered in the spring and will consist of both the VLCC and Product Carrier Cargo Handling Models.
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NewsBobcat Bulks Up at Port of Hull
The UK''s first Bobcat T40170 17m telehandler has been purchased for material handling applications and routine maintenance work on dockside cranes at the Port of Hull.
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NewsCranes Pack Power as Holyhead Gets Tough
Effer cranes are to be fitted to two tugs belonging to Holyhead Towing, one a newbuilding currently under construction at the Hepworth Shipyard on Humberside, the other a refit of an existing boat to follow at the same shipyard.
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Get Decked Out at a Megastore Near You
Deck equipment in abundance comprises only a portion of the 14,000 products listed in a new 630 page mail order catalogue launched last month by Scotland''s Gael Force Marine.
