Accessories & Equipment – Page 102
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NewsNew VTS Unifies South Wales Ports
A landmark marine control centre which will for the first time enable all commercial shipping entering or leaving the five Severn Estuary ports in South Wales operated by Associated British Ports (ABP) was officially commissioned late last month. ABP has invested £ 600,000 developing Severn VTS the advanced new VTS ...
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News'Broadband at Sea' for Trinity House
Inventor of the radio and Nobel Prize winner Guglielemo Marconi would be pleased that the current incarnation of the company he founded in 1900 has been selected by the UK''s Trinity House lighthouse service to supply, install and maintain the first SeaTel 4003 ''Broadband at Sea'' system to be ordered ...
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Transas Adds Value at seawork2004 Exhibition with VAR Status
Transas Ltd , which will be represented at seawork2004 by Transas Marine , has received Value Added Reseller (VAR) status for the IC-ENC (International Centre for ENCs) official electronic nautical charts.
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NewsSpain and Sweden Upgrade VTS
Norcontrol IT has been selected to supply upgrades for the VTS system at the Port of La Coruna in Spain. A new system based on Norcontrol IT''s VTMIS 5060 will be in place by this August with added AIS data and information management functionality.
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'Crescent Highway' Paves Road to Security in MCA Trial
Crescent Marine Services , part of the Southampton based Crescent Group , has been specifying the ultra-compact ''Ocean Alert'' Ship Security Alert System (SSAS) from the global satellite based telematics information services provider Satamatics.
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News'QM2's Gigantic Safety Requirement
Cosalt Safety and Protection , the UK distributor for McMurdo pyrotechnics, electronics and lights, supplied 6,061 of its Premier Lifejackets fitted with McMurdo''s L7 tamper-proof lifejacket lights for the recently commissioned cruise liner Queen Mary 2 before its maiden voyage.
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NewsNew Space Efficient Free Fall Lifeboat
Aberdeen UK based Survival Craft Inspectorate Ltd has introduced the new SC59FF free fall lifeboat as a cost effective safety system for cargo ships, tankers and offshore platforms. By optimising the interior layout of the new 5.9m lifeboat, SCI''s designers have achieved an exceptional 25 passengers carrying capacity.
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NewsCat Provides Lifting Fit For A Queen
Finning (UK) has secured a deal to provide a Cat TH560B Telehandler to Cruise and Passenger Services Ltd forhandling work with the new luxury liner Queen Mary 2 .
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NewsSheerlegs Teamwork Combine on Precision Lift Operation
Smit Heavy Lift has undertaken a series of lifts in the Port of Rotterdam discharging the Chinese cargo barge Sainty 1 , which was laden with 18 inland vessels and barges. This was the fourth such discharge of its type, performed on behalf of Chinese shipbuilders STIG .
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NewsTheme Park Boat Lift Beats Clock
Birmingham based nationwide lifting equipment specialist Lloyds British Testing has beaten the clock to get two 40 tonne pleasure boats back in the water in time for the busy season at the Thorpe Park theme attraction.
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NewsCranes Get A Lift In Tilbury
One of the most challenging aspects of a massive logistics exercise currently underway at the UK Port of Tilbury was carried out late last month with the barge transport of three large ship to shore container cranes.
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NewsMSS To Occupy Minimal Space at seawork
First time seawork exhibitor Mobile Shelter Systems (MSS) will be showing an innovative Storage and Transport Frame initially developed for the military market to provide a flexible modular load system interoperable with all modes of transportation including ISO containers and aircraft cargo pallets.
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NewsMARCO Blows Its Horn
Travelling all the way from Italy to make its first appearance at seawork is Marco Sistema Mare , the marine division of MARCO S. p.A.
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Newsseawork Debut for Cooney Marine
Kettering UK based Cooney Marine may be new to seawork but certainly not to the RNLI , to whom they have sold some 25 marine cranes. The company invests heavily in the latest production facilities and its highly specialist workforce manufactures stainless steel products without compromise whether for OEM or ...
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NewsSafe Switches for Ministry of Defence Lift Systems
Man-machine safety systems specialist Schmersal UK Ltd has won an order to supply a total of 150 of its AZM415 double solenoid locking switches to Industrial & Marine Lift Services (IMLS) for the refurbishment of double gated lifting systems for two UK Ministry of Defence supply ships. The order is ...
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NewsMET Meets Challenge
British tanker operators RixShipping of Hull has turned to the expertise of Sheffield''s MET Marine for a lightweight hydraulic marine crane to meet requirements on board the tanker Rix Condor .
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NewsAutomated Stackers Lift ECT's Ambitions
Rotterdam''s European Container Terminal (ECT) is continuing the expansion of its Delta Container Terminal with fully automated stacking equipment developed together with Kalmar . An agreement was signed recently for the turnkey supply of six automated stacking cranes (ASCs), with an option to increase the order to a total of ...
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High Proof Heavy Water
Lifting equipment on board the British registered, Sealion Shipping dive support vessel Toisa Polaris was given a clean bill of health from Water Weights recently after completion of the proof load testing of its lifeboats and cranes. Four lifeboats, giving cover to 104 personnel, and a 250 tonne offshore crane ...
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Safety Rewarded
The work of Briggs Marine Contractors Ltd at the Chevron Texaco oil refinery in Pembroke, Wales has been officially recognised with the Good Contractors Safety Award .
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NewsCCTV Security for Trinity House Boats
As part of their overall ISPS Code security plan and safety management system, the UK''s Trinity House lighthouse and navaids service has called on advice from Hernis Scan Systems , the Norwegian company that specialises in integrated CCTV systems.
