Equipment News – Page 56
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NewsUK lighthouse gets an LED technology upgrade
Trinity House has completed the modernisation of Mumbles Lighthouse in south Wales, upgrading the site’s aids to navigation and control systems to provide reliable performance for another 20 years.
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NewsCollaboration provides real-time data and positioning services
A marine electronics company in Great Yarmouth, UK has worked with a global business to provide digital services to deliver real-time data from offshore vessels and platforms.
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Sea Machines opens second office in Hamburg, Germany
To better connect Sea Machines Robotics with European-based customers, innovators, and investors the US-based developer of autonomous vessel technology has opened a second office in the port city of Hamburg, Germany.
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NewsCOLREGS milestone for autonomous ships
Rolls-Royce has completed the £1.3 million MAXCMAS (MAchine eXecutable Collision regulations for Marine Autonomous Systems) research project, demonstrating, it claims, that the operation of autonomous vessels can meet, if not exceed, current collision avoidance (COLREG) rules.
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NewsRNLI moves over to Helly Hansen kit
Helly Hansen, the global technical sailing brand founded in Norway in 1877, has committed to supporting UK lifesaving charity the RNLI for the next five years through a variety of activities, including providing all-weather lifeboat crew kit
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NewsIntelligent awareness: a new way to navigate?
Today ships and boats are navigating with displays showing the radar and the electronic chart, the latter known as ECDIS. Radar gives the horizontal view of what is going on outside and the electronic chart gives a plan view. Now Rolls Royce has come up with a new addition to ...
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News460 person lifeboat is just 14 metres long
German lifeboat builder Hatecke has developed the largest capacity ship’s lifeboat in the World within an overall length of just 14 metres writes Dag Pike.
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NewsSMST knuckle boom crane completes Connor Bordelon
Bordelon Marine has completed its third Ultra-Light Intervention Vessel (ULIV) with the installation of an SMST 60t knuckle boom crane onboard the Connor Bordelon.
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NewsiSURVEY invests to meet renewables training demand
iSURVEY, a leading provider of survey and positioning services to the global oil and gas, offshore renewables and telecomms markets, has invested more than £40,000 in staff training.
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NewsSearch and Rescue team reaches milestone during Storm Emma
In the UK, HM Coastguard’s Newquay Search and Rescue (SAR) team surpassed its 700-mission milestone as they responded to calls for help during extreme weather conditions brought by the ‘Beast from the East’ and Storm Emma.
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NewsPSM analogue programmable transmitters approved
PSM Instrumentation has been awarded Marine Type Approval from DNV GL for its new Analogue Pressure Transmitters (APT) which can offer a cost-effective alternative to alternative tank level transmitters.
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IMO body recommends Fleet Safety for GMDSS recognition
Fleet Safety from Inmarsat, a new service incorporating FleetBroadband and a Maritime Safety Terminal (MST) has been recommended for Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) recognition, after its performance was subjected to intensive review by a group of International Maritime Organization-appointed experts.
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NewsTackling navigation buoys wandering off station
Hydrosphere thinks it has the solution to the problem of marine navigation buoys wandering off station because of exposure to the elements at their location.
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NewsEliminating the need for deploying marker buoys
Danish hardware and software engineering company EIVA has introduced a new solution that offers an alternative way to ensure safe navigation rather than manual deployment of marker buoys.
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NewsEnhanced life-saving equipment on show at Seawork
ACR Electronics and Ocean Signal will be promoting the enhanced benefits of their leading range of EPIRBs and PLBs enabled by a next generation satellite system.
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NewsRNLI volunteers primed for life saving duties
The RNLI says that 3000 volunteer lifeboat crew have now completed a vital part of their training, helped by a training fund of over £2m provided by Lloyd’s Register Foundation.
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NewsNew Furuno dual-display TZT2BB
Furuno has launched Black Box NavNet TZtouch2 system TZT2BB with dual-display capability.
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NewsOcean Safety sees shift to rental contracts
UK safety and survival equipment supplier Ocean Safety both sells and rents a large range of SOLAS approved liferafts to the commercial maritime sector and in the past 30 months the company’s hire fleet has risen from 60 to 400.
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NewsPartnership for real-time satellite communications
The popular navigation communication system mazu and mSeries now works with Raymarine Axiom MFDs allowing vessel operators to access real-time satellite data.
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NewsRescue training carried out at Scottish lighthouse
The Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB) has joined forces with Her Majesty''s Coastguard (HMCG), a section of Maritime & Coastguard Agency, to practice vital casualty rescue training that could save lives in an emergency.
