Accessories & Equipment – Page 87
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NewsCareers Website to boost Merchant Navy
A campaign to increase the number of Merchant Navy recruits in Scotland has been launched by Scottish Enterprise, with £ 250,000 initiative aimed at attracting more officer cadets into the industry.
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NewsTraining Charts an International Course
The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) is strengthening its reputation as an international training centre by educating students from around the world. Students from six different countries were the latest to learn how to produce and maintain Electronic Navigational Charts (ENC) by attending an intensive five week course recently.
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NewsFit and forget data management
There is a new service for the electronic management of onboard information that has come from the teaming up of ChartCo and Regs4Ships.
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NewsPortland prepares for an Olympic effort
As investment starts in preparation for the 2012 Olympic Games, Portland Harbour Authority starts to upgrade its AIS and radar based system.
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Research Information Finds a Platform
There has been for some time a need for researchers to have marine and coastal data at their fingertips, in order to meet the growing disquiet about what is happening to our coasts and climate.
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NewsMCA Gets New SAR Helicopters
New helicopters introduced to provide search and rescue (SAR) services from two bases in the north of Scotland are now established in the role. The new Sikorsky S92 aircraft have been introduced on a phased basis at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) bases at Stornoway and Sumburgh, Shetland.
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NewsNorwegian takeover of Crevi Davit
Noreq AS, the Norwegian manufacturer and supplier of maritime deck equipment, has acquired the Bergen based davit manufacturer Crevi Davit AS.
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NewsDouble Deck Equipment Package for Holyhead
Having recently supplied the deck machinery package for Holyhead Towing Company' s new 35m tug, North Sea Winches has just completed manufacturing an almost identical package for the same customer. Winches are also being built for a 24m tug and designs are on the board for 60 ton winches ...
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NewsBigger Lift for Bigger Tugs
The family run business of Colle Towing Inc, which operates tugboats on the Pascagoula River in Mississippi USA, has recently taken delivery of its second Marine Travelift. The new 600C boat hoist is seen as an investment that will contribute to the strengthening of the business for future generations.
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NewsPreffered Found 2007 an Uplifting Year
Preffered Marine Cranes celebrated a successful year in 2007 and managed to draw successful contracts even in what they term as a somewhat erratic market. The company was able to supply a range of knuckleboom and stiff boom cranes from their Italian (Effer) and German (Global Davits) suppliers.
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Safer Deck Operations Takes Off
Rolls-Royce launched its Safer Deck Operations (SDO) system for offshore anchor handlers back in 2006, and since then four vessels with SDO have gone into service and 35 more orders for new vessels are in place.
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NewsPassive Damping for Regional Support Vessels
S E Hydraulics (SEH) have designed and supplied an innovative passive damping system to BP' s four new Regional Support Vessels (RSVs) working out of Aberdeen.BP have commissioned and procured the new RSVs to deliver their new North Sea rescue and recovery arrangements.
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NewsNew Crane & Winch Operations Guidelines
A key part of almost all offshore and subsea operations is lifting, lifting of stores and spares handling through to complicated and heavy lifts, and there could be in excess of 200 different kinds of lifting operations on a vessel.
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NewsCameras Keep Watch on 'Galatea'
Following the successful installation of Hernis Scan Systems' integrated surveillance systems onboard the Trinity House vessels ' Patricia and ' Mermaid' , Hernis has supplied its Hernis 400 system for the new Northern Lighthouse Board and Trinity House vessels built at the Remontowa shipyard in Poland.
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NewsSystem Software Drives Smarter Winch
Americ' s Markey Machinery has supplied of the second DEPCF-52 75hp electric hawser winch for a series of Nichols Brothers Shipyards built 6,800hp tugs.
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NewsLighten Up for Easier Mooring
Following a successful eight month sea trial on its Cosmerry Lake VLCC, Cosco Dalian found that, in comparison with steel wire mooring lines, ropes made with Dyneema enabled a reduction in mooring time and significantly improved crew safety.
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NewsLift Efficiency Boosts Tiger Bay
Marine Travelift Inc has sold its very first self-propelled transporter onto the US market. The Marine Travelift TM 40C was purchased by Tiger Point Marina and Boat Works of Jacksonville in Florida.
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Crane gain at Europort Maritime
In ceremonies on the Van der Velden Marine Systems stand at Europort Maritime in Rotterdam last month, the wraps were pulled off an Effer 130 4S marine crane to signify the signing of an exclusive agreement for Van der Velden to distribute Effer marine cranes in the Netherlands and Germany.
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NewsHamburg Automates to Boost Capacity
The Port of Hamburg’ s biggest container terminal operator, Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), has turned to Kalmar to supply three more crane blocks with its automatic stacking crane (ASC) system and related technology for the second phase in the conversion of HHLA Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB) to a ...
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NewsMCA Provides Feedback Following Emergency Exercises
The UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA’ s) maritime emergency exercises are now regular events around the British coast. A Maritime Guidance Note (MGN) has recently been published providing feedback, including observations and recommendations from a series of exercises involving a specific class of vessel.
