Equipment News – Page 160
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NewsNational Maritime Safety System for Bulgaria
Transas has completed the installation and commissioning of a National Maritime Safety System which covers the entire coastline of Bulgaria from Romania to Turkey. Transas won the contract in an open tender managed and financed by the European Community''s PHARE programme, which is aimed at supporting Central and East European ...
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NewsExpansive Bond Celebrates 30 Years
2005 sees Essex UK-based Bond Instrumentation and Process Control enter into its 30th year of trading on a high after a busy end to 2004.
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NewsSoundBuoy Launch Boosts Boat Noise Compliance
From this month, noise testing has become necessary as the amended EU Recreational Craft Directive (RCD) has come into force. For the first time, upper limits for boat noise are specified. Compliance with the new RCD will be optional for the first 12 months, but from next January it will ...
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NewsInnovation Sparks DieselElectric Ferry
The double ended ferry Dokter Wagemaker has been built by the Damen Group in Romania and was delivered last month for finishing to their Schelde yard at Vlissingen in the Netherlands. The vessel for Texels Eigen Stoomboot Onderneming NV (TESO) will be deployed from June on the Den Helder to ...
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NewsFuelCom Goes With the Flow
As fuel is the single largest cost of marine diesel ownership, accurate metering is critical.
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NewsSmart Steering for New System
Working closely with Volvo Penta , Simrad has developed intelligent auto steering via CAN for the new Inboard Propulsion System (IPS) introduced earlier this month at the London Boat Show . The new AC05 Autopilot Computer integrates with the AP 16/25/26/27 autopilots from Simrad to partner Volvo Penta''s latest generation ...
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TTS Finnish Handling Expansion
Sweden''s TTS Ships Equipment AB of Gothenburg, part of Norway''s TTS Marine ASA , has signed an agreement to purchase Finland''s Liftec Products Oy of Tammerfors. The company will be renamed TTS Liftec Products Oy .
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NewsCats' Cranes Speed Expansion
A 2,500 ton capacity crane mounted on an 84m LOA catamaran is helping the booming economic metropolis that is Shanghai meet its requirements for additional ports and coastal infrastructure.
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NewsCranes Upgrade Expands Thamesport Capacity
The UK''s Thamesport set about further boosting its productivity this month when it embarked upon an ambitious modification programme to five of its quayside cranes. The five post-Panamax cranes, which are now 15 years old, will be upgraded to enable them to handle the latest generation of ultra-large container ships ...
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NewsHeavyweight Winch Marks Anniversary
Germany based HATLAPA recently celebrated its 85th anniversary and in the same week shipped a 56 ton towing winch, the largest produced in the company''s history, from its home port of Uetersen.
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NewsWhen It's Cranes, It Pours
Handling equipment manufacturer Kalmar has received an order for five additional super post-Panamax ship to shore (STS) cranes from MSC Home Terminal in Antwerp.
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NewsSaab Launches On Course at Hamburg
Saab TransponderTech was a notable presence at the recent SMM exhibition in Hamburg, introducing a new DGPS Navigator meeting the latest IMO and IEC specifications, including Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM), as well as a new type-approved GPS as an integrated part of the R4 ship AIS transponder system.
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NewsNew VTS for Port of Londonderry
Transas Marine UK Ltd , in cooperation with Joss Skelton Ltd (Belfast), recently secured an order for a Vessel Traffic Services system to be installed in Northern Ireland''s Port of Londonderry. Similar systems are already installed in the UK at the ports of Larne, Cardiff, Swansea, Barry, Port Talbot, Newport, ...
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Management Information Added to Cork VTS
Bremen-based Atlas Elektronik is to extend Cord Harbour Authority''s VTS network with the addition of an all-purpose Management Information System (MIS) facilitating overall port management and traffic control as well as general administration.
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NewsBuilding a Bridge to Choice
Rotterdam''s Alphatron Marine is delivering an alternative to standardised integrated bridge consoles with the introduction of the new Alphabridge design concept, which enables shipyards and owners to select the wheelhouse equipment they would like to install rather than be made to accept a full package from a single manufacturer.
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NewsRNLI In Control of New Tamar Class
Newbury UK based Radamec Control Systems Ltd (RCS) is presently trialling BridgeMaster , its new digital bridge control package, with the RNLI . The system was introduced to the market at seawork2004 .
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Ride Control for Fast Patrol Boats
Ride control specialist VTMaritime Dynamics Inc (VTMD) has won the contract to supply the stabilisation systems for the advanced Skjold Class fast patrol boats being built for the Royal Norwegian Navy .
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NewsNew Programmable Logic Controller
Controls specialist AMOT has introduced a new programmable logic controller which combines the power of a PLC with the ease of use of an embedded controller. The TomaHawk 8635A brings users a simple and flexible programming concept that allows custom and/ or pre-programmed applications to be combined and tailored to ...
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NewsBattered Buoy Makes Case for Plastic
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.
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NewsNavaids Show Way to Rebuilt West Bay
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.
