Equipment News – Page 58
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NewsSailor GMDSS for Turkish Maritime Education Foundation
A new Turkish training ship operated by TUDEV, the Turkish Maritime Education Foundation, is now providing vital safety and operational training for Turkish maritime cadets following installation of an extensive suite of Sailor GMDSS solutions including Inmarsat Mini-C and maritime radios, all operated through a unique touch-screen user interface.
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NewsiXblue launches unique autonomous craft
The French company iXblue is involved in a wide range of maritime areas including advanced electronic systems, ship building and defence requirements. This wide experience has been used to develop a unique autonomous surface vessel that has been named DriX.
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NewsBeaulieu River lights up at night
Navigation lights have been installed to help night sailors on the winding channel of the UK’s Beaulieu River as part of ongoing investment in the services and facilities for mooring holders and visitors arriving at the Buckler’s Hard Yacht Harbour on the river.
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NewsPort of Horsens joins early adaptors of LifeLadder
The port of Horsens in Denmark is the third Danish port to install LifeLadder, a new type of quayside self-rescue ladder which lights up at night.
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Survitec announces new contracts totalling £5.8m
UK-headquartered safety and survival company Survitec, has announced the signing of new contracts for its Marine business, with a total value in the region of £5.8m. These contracts fall in line with the Group’s continued organic growth strategy.
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NewsMan Overboard Prevention & Recovery Workshop
Man Overboard Prevention & Recovery Workshop aims to reduce the risk caused by people falling in the water on vessels of all sizes. Fast moving sessions highlight the hard lessons learned from recent fatalities.
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NewsKnuckleboom cranes for nacelles
Inside a recent, large wind crane contract for the Borkum II windfarm was an interesting element: while half Palfinger’s order was for stiffboom cranes, the other half was for folding knuckleboom units to be installed on the nacelles.
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NewsReel drive scales up
Putting ‘flexibility’ into flex-lay, Texas headquartered Oceaneering International’s new multi-role vessel, ‘Ocean Evolution’, is being kitted out to take all kinds of reels.
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NewsPredictive sim for real-time answers
Simulation has stepped away from being a training tool and is now being used to optimise complex lift and engineering projects. Moreover, it promises to save wasted time, effort - and money.
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NewsFast gangway mobilisation for transition piece installation
Carrying out windfarm transition piece installation while floating in DP mode meant a capable, motion compensated Telescopic Access Bridge (TAB) was necessary for ‘Jumbo Fairplayer’s new Baltic Sea project. But mobilisation also played a key role.
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NewsAutonomous vessel satellite coordination
A new £1.2m research project will address how traditional manned vessels can co-exist with autonomous systems in shared water space.
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NewsMobilis buoy refurbishment for Vattenfall
Five years ago Hydrosphere sold five Mobilis JET 9000 navigation buoys to be used as temporary navigation aids during the construction of a wind farm off Scotland’s East coast. That project was completed and the buoys spent a couple of years in storage, before the customer decided to sell.
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NewsDouble davit order for Astilleros Zamakona windfarm vessel
MacGregor has won new davit orders from Spanish shipyard Astilleros Zamakona for a service operation vessel (SOV) owned by the Danish company Esvagt AS.
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NewsDanish e-navigation conference promises a deeply moving venue
International maritime companies and experts are being urged not to miss a January 2018 conference which will take place aboard a DFDS Seaways ferry travelling between Copenhagen and Oslo, as key e-navigation thought leaders deliver valuable insight, update delegates on the latest developments and debate the framework that needs to ...
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Apax-backed Marlink and OmniAccess join forces
Backed by Apax Partners, maritime communications company Marlink has signed a definite agreement to acquire a majority stake in specialized maritime connectivity solutions provider OmniAccess.
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NewsAutonomous Roboats for Amsterdam’s city canals
The Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) has signed an agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to engage in research collaboration to develop a fleet of autonomous boats for the city’s canals.
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NewsActisense achieves product excellence awards hat trick
UK marine electronics specialist company Actisense has been recognised with the prestigious Product of Excellence Award from the National Marine Electronics Association for the third consecutive year.
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NewsABB launches mobile situational awareness system
ABB has unveiled a new tool, ABB Ability Marine Pilot Vision, that harnesses advanced sensor technology to provide officers with detailed situational awareness anywhere on a ship.
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NewsOff the shelf remote and autonomous workboats
Boston, USA-headquartered Sea Machines Robotics has announced a collaboration with European boatbuilder Tuco Marine of Denmark to offer remote and autonomous control products as factory options in their line of ProZero workboats.
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NewsUpgraded monitoring from Flow Marine
This year Flow Marine has launched version 1.5 of its monitoring and control system, which provides an advanced configuration interface giving full control over both the setup and calibration of all the sensors and alarms in the vessel system as well as remote monitoring.
