Accessories & Equipment – Page 91
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NewsNorth Sea Winches Clinches Holyhead Double
Scarborough UK based North Sea Winches continues its provision of specialist equipment for the commercial marine sector with identical packages of deck machinery for two newbuild 35m tugs for Holyhead Towing.
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NewsVersatile Spreader Reaches a 'Century'
Clipper Elite Carriers (CEC) has ordered a Modulift Spreader System for permanent use on the 9,000dwt multipurpose container/heavy lift vessel ''CEC Century''.
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Markey Makes Its Plimsoll Mark
Professional Mariner magazine in the USA presented Markey Machinery Company with the 2006 Plimsoll Award for Innovation, during a ceremony held as part of the Connecticut Maritime Association''s Shipping 2007 conference.
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NewsHooked On for the Future
Lifeboat and davit manufacturer Schat-Harding has completely re-engineered its range of on-load release hooks.
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NewsLightweight Rope Lifts Pipelay Production
Allseas Group S.A., a Swiss offshore pipe laying company, has collaborated with DSM Dyneema to improve the safety and speed of underwater pipe laying using next generation rope technology.
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NewsGerman Ports Embrace Straddle Carriers
Kalmar Industries'' seventh generation ESC series has reaffirmed its position as the straddle carrier of choice for German ports with new orders for a combined 27 units received from the country''s leading terminal operators.
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Winch Control Package for 'Floating Port'
Siemens announced the award of a contract earlier this month from Oceaneering Advanced Technologies to provide an electric winch motor control system and an energy storage system for a crane designed to move large containers on US Navy ships at sea.
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News'Video Wall' VTS for Port of Antwerp
Two Belgian companies, Barco, which designs and develops visualisation products, and technical installations specialists Fabricom GTI, are installing a high performance VTS system, including new radars, for the Port of Antwerp.
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Dredgers Scoop Savings on Satellite Use
Belgium based contractors Dredging International is using new software to cut the cost of transferring business critical data over satellite between its ships dispersed worldwide and its onshore offices.
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NewsCar Carrier Captains Drive Digital NavComms
Wallenius Marine AB in Stockholm have placed a landmark order through Admiralty Distributor Nautic Center AB for over thirty complete sets of the recently launched Admiralty Digital Publications (ADP) portfolio developed by the UK Hydrographic Office.
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NewsPocket Navtex Links to Any PC
Bristol UK based Marine Electronic Services has introduced the new Wetterbox WIB2 Navtex Black Box Receiver, a cigarette packet sized unit which incorporates an internal Navtex receiver and PC interface.
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News'Future of Marine Navigation' Demonstrated
Specially adapted Kongsberg Norcontrol IT C-Scope software formed the platform for an in depth MarNIS (Maritime Navigation and Information Services) demonstration, held at the MCA''s Highcliffe Training Centre on 13 & 14th Feb 2007.
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NewsSwedes Satisfy Rescue Needs of Offshore Wind Power Industry
The consent given last month by the British Government for the world''s largest wind farm to be built in the Thames Estuary further validates the arrival of the offshore wind power industry as a valuable contributor to the battle against global warming and for the security of energy supplies.
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New Year's Higher Resolution for RNLI
The three year SAR simulator at the RNLI''s Lifeboat College in Poole UK has been upgraded in a project designed and integrated by Antycip SAS, using 11 F2 SX+ DLP projectors supplied by Norway''s projectiondesign.
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Marine Propulsion Training from HME
This training offers the global marine industry an opportunity to gain knowledge of matching ship propulsion components and systems. Based on market developments, a separate module on the characteristics of electrical drives has been added. This international training enables marine professionals to understand more about the specific characteristics of ships ...
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NewsPortable Safety at a Pocketable Price
The current 121.5/243MHz analogue COSPAS SARSAT service will cease in February 2009 and only the 406 MHz digital beacon signals will be processed thereafter. The major benefits of a 406 MHz device over a 121.5 MHz device have long been recognised. These include faster, more accurate detection, personal identification of ...
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Chalmers' Simulator Emulates Any Vessel
Transas has supplied a large scale simulator for the Ship Simulator Centre at the Chalmers University of Technology at Gothenburg in Sweden. The Chalmers Ship Simulator Centre''s mission is to develop and implement standards in maritime training using aviation standards as the model.
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New Technology Records Ship's Data in Float Free Memory Capsule
The ACR S-VDR Float Free Memory Capsule, a floating and satellite detectable version of the black box, is now approved and available for sale in North America. Manufacturer ACR Electronics, based in Florida has begun shipping to its North American dealers and has been issued an approval number for the ...
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NewsDutch Heavy Lift Operator Dockwise Sold for $700m
International private equity and funds manager 3i has agreed to buy Dutch marine heavy lift operators Dockwise Transport BV from Dutch offshore services company Heerema Group and Norwegian maritime group Wilh. Wilhelmsen in a deal valued at over $700m.
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NewsEvery Winch Way in the New Year
German winch manufacturer and deck equipment supplier HATLAPA enters the New Year with 30 large anchor handling and towing winches filling the order book. The largest of these is a 500 ton line pull triple drum waterfall winch.
