Battered Buoy Makes Case for Plastic

01 Nov 2004

New plastic marine navigation buoys placed recently in the Caribbean proved their durability in the toughest of circumstances when one was run over by a high speed ocean cruiser. 

Navaids Show Way to Rebuilt West Bay

01 Nov 2004

Tideland Signal is supplying a range of aids to navigation equipment for the £16.8m redevelopment of West Bay Harbour in Dorset UK which was seriously damaged by storms in 1995. 

Coastal Surveillance and VTS Antennas

01 Nov 2004

Atlas Elektronic GmbH has selected Easat to supply parabolic reflector antennas for the Kuwait Sea Surveillance project. The contract to supply a 5.5m reflector antenna builds upon other recent successes supplying antennas for a coastal surveillance system in Estonia as well as elsewhere in Europe and in Asia. 

Back-up Power for Goteborg's New Beacons

01 Nov 2004

Goteborg Hamm AB , operator of the Port of Goteborg in Sweden, has ordered Saft's new design Sunica. plu s low maintenance rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries to provide reliable back-up power for the 34 new solar powered fairway beacons that will mark the main access channels approaching the port. 

MAIB Reports on Vessel Brush with Denmark's Bad Buoy

01 Nov 2004

The British Government's Marine Accident Investigation Branch has published its report into the contact of a British cargo ship with a navigation buoy in Denmark's Drogden Channel earlier this year. At 0755 on 29 January 2004, the UK registered general cargo vessel Scot Venture made contact with Number 16 buoy in the Drogden Channel, Denmark, in restricted visibility. The vessel then anchored clear of the channel until towed to Malmo, Sweden, for inspection.