Equipment News – Page 76
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NewsNavaids-driven boost for Irish manufacturing
Irish company JFC Manufacturing has announced details of a new range of polyethylene buoys, at the ‘Innovating the future of Marine Navigation Safety’ conference in Galway in October. The buoys are being produced by the company’s new division, JFC Marine.
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NewsFast rescue monitoring
A Canadian company has developed a safety and security system that allows a shore station to closely monitor the machinery and operation of fast rescue boats in any part of the World.
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NewsSamson’s rope on the hotplate
Rope has to deal with a lot of harsh realities: both heat and ultraviolet do their level best to degrade the fibres.
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NewsInterceptors for Swedish lifeboats
A new Swedish company focussed on developing interceptor systems for fast boats has been chosen to supply interceptor trim systems to a pair of Swedish lifeboats. These installations follow a series of successful tests and sea trial that demonstrated the benefits of the dynamic trim control system.
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NewsBalancing SWATH vessels
Indian-owned and UK-headquartered Servowatch, the marine systems integrator and automation specialist, has introduced a new trim and draught stability optimiser, ServoTrim, designed specifically to ‘balance the draught’ of SWATH (Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull) vessels.
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NewsNav-Tracker update
US-headquartered GOST (Global Ocean Security Technologies), has announced the latest innovation in its successful line of Nav-Tracker vessel monitoring and surveillance systems – the GOST Nav-Tracker 3.0 SM.
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NewsMonitoring System for Lerwick
Germany-headquartered navigation systems specialist Transas, has signed a contract with the Lerwick Port Authority, Shetland, UK to install a new Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) to cover Lerwick Harbour. The new system is required to replace the harbour’s existing system.
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News24 hours in a liferaft
Twelve brave volunteers from Maersk Training in Newcastle, UK took part in a gruellingly physical and mental challenge by spending 24 hours at sea in a small life raft.
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Danelec approval
Denmark-headquartered marine electronics company Danelec Marine has announced that classification society DNV GL has awarded a type approval certificate with EU Wheelmark designation for the new DM800 ECDIS G2 series Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS).
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NewsBarcelona refurbishment
Almarin, a Spanish manufacturer of Marine Aids to Navigation, has carried out the design, supply and installation of three lantern rooms with their respective domes for the Port of Barcelona, Spain.
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NewsMilestone reached in engineering project
New engineering methods are being used to cut costs and provide safer navigation. The developments have come about through collaboration between aids to navigation supplier Hydrosphere and ABP Southampton which manages and maintains the navigation lights and buoys in Southampton Water, UK and its approaches.
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NewsHigh North navigation
French company iXBlue is using Fibre Optic Gyroscope (FOG) technology to provide navigational accuracy for extreme maritime applications such as high Northern latitude navigation, nuclear submarine stealth operation as well as mission critical space applications.
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NewsFrench connections
France-headquartered marine instrument company LCJ Capteurs recently launched a collection of new products at the Marine Equipment Trade Show in Amsterdam. The products increase the functionality or connection potential of a number of commonly encountered barometric and wind measurement devices both of the company’s own manufacture and others’.
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NewsSimrad plots route to conservation
A complete bridge system overhaul using technology from global marine electronics brand Simrad has enhanced the ground-breaking conservation work done by the Auckland Whale & Dolphin Safari in New Zealand.
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NewsTug safety deal
French-owned McMurdo Group, has announced that its distributor, Alphatron Marine BV, has won the tender to supply Dutch tug company KRVE (Koninklijke Roeiers Vereniging Eendrachtthe), with McMurdo’s Smartfind S20 Personal AIS Beacon.
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NewsA life-ring for the 21st century
UK-based Salvare Worldwide is best known for its innovative inflatable survival platform, the Seapod, but now the company says its new smaller cousin, the Mini-Pod, is proving to be just as popular across even more markets.
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Compass services
Netherlands-based Radio Holland has been appointed by German compass maker Cassens & Plath to conduct Magnetic Compass replacement services, in all countries where Radio Holland holds office. Before, these services were conducted by Cassens & Plath themselves, and forwarded to an appropriate service agent.
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NewsAsia Pacific’s first MEOSAR station
French-owned McMurdo Group, has announced that it has completed the installation of a six-antenna next-generation Medium-Earth Orbit Search and Rescue (MEOSAR) satellite ground station system in New Zealand.
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Tideland acquisition
US-headquartered navaids specialist Tideland Signal Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the IMT B.V. Group of Companies.
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NewsSafe surveying
Survey ships and many marine construction vessels are often required to go into areas of shallow water where the chart may not always show reliable information. The margins for safe navigation can be quite small in these circumstances partly because there is little incentive to survey areas that ships do ...
