Equipment News – Page 96

  • The Falmouth Harbour buoy undergoing routine onshore maintenance
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    Trials underway for Falmouth monitoring buoy

    2014-01-24T07:30:00Z

    Falmouth Harbour Commissioners, the Trust Port Authority for Falmouth Harbour in the UK, are trialling innovative hardware and software developed in conjunction with Cornwall based company Triskel Marine Ltd.

  • Support boats benefit from innovations that keep the deck clear
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    The rich winch market pull

    2014-01-21T07:30:00Z

    Unlikely as it seems, the commercial workboat business owes a lot to the Abramovichs and Mansours of this world, explains Tom Loasby of Dorset UK based marine deck equipment suppliers Seaway Powell.

  • Workboat crews in coastal waters could easily participate in the SEACAMS project
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    SEACAMS is what’s app in Welsh waters

    2014-01-15T07:30:00Z

    Sustainable Expansion of the Applied Coastal and Marine Sectors (SEACAMS) is an ambitious project to support a whole range of coastal and marine related industries.

  • A map of currents in the Atlantic off northern Europe
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    Combined ocean and tidal currents aid passage

    2014-01-09T07:30:00Z

    The first vessel optimisation application offering combined tidal and non-tidal (ocean) current data has been launched for integrated vessel speed and route optimisation.

  • The DaccR continuously monitors the shock and vibrations received by the vessel structure and stores the data to the onboard solid state memory
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    Ride quality monitoring packs sales sting

    2014-01-09T07:30:00Z

    Scorpion Ribs can provide proof of the ride quality and performance of their vessels from the data obtained using the Dyena Acceleration Recorder.

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    Top award for Engine Monitoring Unit

    2014-01-08T07:30:00Z

    Poole UK based marine electronics manufacturer Actisense won the Product of the Year award at the BMEA (British Marine Electronics Association)conference with its new EMU-1 Engine Monitoring Unit.

  • The MV Denis Murphy, which is recording the winter programme of sea bed ploughing
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    Precision seabed ploughing monitoring for Cork

    2014-01-08T07:30:00Z

    A project that has allowed Ireland’s Port of Cork to precisely monitor and record the winter programme of seabed ploughing in real time for the first ever time is being delivered by Succorfish in partnership with Irish marine communication specialists SEA-Tech.

  • Unique Seaflex manufactures air-filled bags for salvage and installation operations and water-filled bags for testing or ballasting purposes
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    Rapid response testing keeps barge working

    2013-12-19T07:30:00Z

    Unique Seaflex was recently contacted by Saipem in Portugal, which was looking to urgently conduct a 550 tonne load test on a derrick barge located at Point Noire in the Congo.

  • Barge Master has recently built its first platform with a 700 tonne load capacity
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    Motion compensation platforms lifting off

    2013-12-18T12:16:00Z

    A new era in offshore working has begun, with the launch of Barge Master.

  • The vessels will be equipped with several low pressure hydraulic driven winches from Rolls-Royce
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    Deck equipment and propulsion for 10 OSVs

    2013-12-18T07:30:00Z

    Rolls-Royce has signed contracts to deliver an extensive package of ship equipment for ten anchor handling offshore vessels to the Malaysian ship builder Nam Cheong.

  • The NORSOK regulations apply to davits and lifting appliances used on offshore installations
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    NORSOK standards raise safety bar

    2013-12-18T07:30:00Z

    Although new regulations for davits used in the Norwegian offshore industry will not come into force until 2015 they are already raising the safety bar.

  • Test weights are deployed during rigorous crane testing before handover to Babcock
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    New cranes key to Rosyth regeneration

    2013-12-17T16:25:00Z

    As part of a major upgrade by Babcock to the Rosyth Dockyard in Scotland, new overhead travelling cranes (OTC’s) have been built and installed by Street Crane Company.

  • Terra Marique is seen preparing to offload the 498 tonne module at Sellafield
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    Heavy lift success with nuclear projects

    2013-12-17T14:07:00Z

    Staffordshire UK based shipping company Robert Wynn and Sons Ltd is currently at the forefront of the largest energy projects on both sides of the Channel.

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    Electric cranes for Danish heavy lift vessels

    2013-12-17T13:29:00Z

    MacGregor has won a contract to deliver four 250 tonne heavy lift electric cranes to two 12,000 dwt multi-purpose vessels for a Danish operator Nordana.

  • The new Super Post Panamax equipment is lit by LED floodlights at several power ratings up to 400 watts, located at various heights up to 68m
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    Lifting the light in Port of Valencia

    2013-12-16T14:01:00Z

    TCV Stevedoring Company SA, the container terminal in Valencia belonging to Grup TCB, has purchased and implemented the first STS Super Post Panamax crane in the world, lit entirely with LED technology.

  • The system is positioned between the crane hook and the load to keep the rope taut at all times
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    Heave compensated MaXine extends operations

    2013-12-16T13:20:00Z

    IHC Vremac Cylinders, part of IHC Merwede, has introduced the MaXine 50 heave compensator to its Dutch, Belgian and German offshore partners.

  • Neva-Leader 7 is designed to operate on both inland waterways and on short sea routes
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    Project cargoes to the Caspian

    2013-12-16T12:49:00Z

    A new ship launched by the Nevsky Shipyard has been designed to carry project and heavy lift cargoes from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea.

  • Norled is the largest operator in Northern Europe
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    ECDIS upgrades for fast cat fleet

    2013-11-25T07:30:00Z

    Swedish company Adveto has, through its distributor Westronic in Bergen, secured an order consisting of software and ECDIS-kernel upgrade and new continuous 36 month support for twenty six High Speed Craft (HSC) passenger catamarans.

  • Almarin supplied seven G3000TL buoys with 11m3 hull volume
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    Beaconing for Spanish marine energy platform

    2013-11-21T07:30:00Z

    Spanish manufacturer of AtoN, Almarin, has supplied the maritime beaconing for Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BIMEP) in Bizkaia, Spain.

  • With increasing boat speed, ‘navigation’ is an ever increasing challenge that has to be met in order to maintain an acceptable level of safety for crew and vessel. Photo: Ernie Sapiro
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    Dynamic navigation for high speed craft

    2013-11-20T07:30:00Z

    FRC International launched the innovative ‘DYNAV’ dynamic navigation system for high speed craft at Chalmers University Maritime Department, Gothenburg, Sweden on 29 October 2013.