Equipment News – Page 161
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NewsCoastal Surveillance and VTS Antennas
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.
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NewsBack-up Power for Goteborg's New Beacons
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.
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MAIB Reports on Vessel Brush with Denmark's Bad Buoy
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 ...
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NewsHumber Staff Top of the Class
Crews at Adsteam Humber have landed a number of professional qualifications recently, and are among the first in the UK to achieve them.
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NewsFirst Survey Vessel Simulator
The official trial of the world''s first Survey Vessel Simulator, manufactured by Transas for the Russian Ministry of Defence''s Directorate of Navigation and Oceanography ''s Kedr development project has been completed successfully.
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NewsRNLI's Lifeboat College Opens
Continuing its commitment to providing the highest possible level of training, and subsequently saving the highest possible number of lives, the RNLI has opened the unique and purpose built Lifeboat College near its Poole headquarters. The project, which cost a total of £ 25m and has an estimated annual running ...
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NewsTraining Goes to mars2 at SMM Exhibition in Hamburg
Following the split of STN Atlas Elektronik last year, much of the operation remained in Bremen with Rheinmetall Defence Electronics GmbH , which launched its new Maritime Safety and Security Training Environment (mars2) at the recent SMM Exhibition inHamburg.
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Drop Tested SART Meets New SOLAS Regs
The S.701 SART being used by Viking Life Saving Equipment claims to be the first in the world to use non-hazardous battery packs and meets SOLAS requirements for liferafts.
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NewsWinch System Upgrade in Caspian Sea
The upgrade of the 10 point winch mooring system on board the pipe lay vessel Israfil Guseinov has been successfully completed to the satisfaction of operators McDermott Caspian Contractors Inc.
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News'Thunder Horse' Gets to Texas PDQ
Dutch heavy transport shipping company Dockwise further advanced the market for moving ultra-large and heavy items by sea when it delivered the largest semi-submersible Production & Drilling Quarters (PDQ) ever built to Texas last month.
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NewsMooring Bollard Eases Alongside at SMM
TTS Marine Cranes ASA of Norway launched a new product at SMM which promises to make mooring operations safer and more cost effective. The ship mounted TTS Winch Bollard mooring system can replace mooring winches, capstan, wrapping drums and bollard normally used for mooring.
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Crane Gain Lifts Lloyds British Testing Plc
Birmingham based lifting equipment specialist Lloyds British Testing plc has acquired the Swansea engineering business Rumney Crane , which provides lifting solutions for ports and harbours. Rumney is to be integrated into Lloyds British Testing and will be called Lloyds Rumney Crane Division .
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New Ship to Shore Crane for Felixstowe Extension
The UK Port of Felixstowe took delivery of its latest Ship to Shore Gantry Crane (SSGC) late last month when the second of an order of three SSCGs arrived from China.
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Syncrolift Upgrades Software
New software has been launched by Syncrolift Inc , part of the Rolls-Royce naval marine business in the USA that has installed 226 of its Syncrolift lifting platform systems worldwide. They provide an elevator mechanism to lift a large range of marine vessels from the water, transfer them to dry ...
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NewsECS Returns with CranePower
Kent UK based European Crane Services (ECS) resurfaced at the SMM Exhibition in Hamburg last month with the exclusive rights to sell Crane Power cranes in excess of 35 countries.
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Lifeboat Builder's Eastern Promise
Norwegian lifeboat and davit specialist Schat-Harding hasadvanced its strategy to expand market share with cargo ships built at Asian yards by taking over the lifeboat manufacturing plant and product range of China''s Beiyang Boatbuilding Co . The lifeboat factory at Qingdao currently produces about 100 boats per year from a ...
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NewsMaintenance Manual Breaks the Language Barrier
Survival Craft Inspectorate Ltd has introduced a unique, animated CD version of the operation and maintenance manual for its Safelaunch ® lifeboat release gear.
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NewsAMOT Launch New Product at SMM
The AMOT MPD metal detector signals the presence of metal particles, chips or dust in lubricating fluids due to bearing wear or other engine part problems and thereby prevents catastrophic failures, avoids unnecessary costly repairs and minimises downtime.
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NewsSMM Launch for New Bilge Alarm
Redhill UK based oil in water monitor specialist manufacturers Rivertrace Engineering will be launching the new Rivertrace ''Smart Cell'' bilge alarm at SMM 2004 in Hamburg this month. Smart Cell will meet the requirements of the latest IMO regulation MEPC 107(49) for ship-borne bilge water separators and alarms.
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Shipping Lines Press UK to Block Irish Investment
LEADING international shipping lines called on the British Government this month to suspend its plan to invest in a new headquarters for the Commissioners of Irish Lights .
