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NewsAcoustic Enclosures for Marine Power at Seawork
Ipswich UK based diesel generator manufacturer and Seawork 2007 exhibitor G& M Power Plant Ltd has designed and built a new sliding door acoustic enclosure which can be specified with sound levels from 70 dB(A) to as low as 60 dB(A) at 1m.
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NewsCosalt Adds Evacuation Systems Servicing
European marine safety products and services provider Cosalt can now provide servicing of RFD Marin Ark evacuation systems, with the work carried out by RFD trained specialists.
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NewsInterManager Addresses Seafarer Training Issues
InterManager, the International Ships Managers'' Association, has emphasised its commitment to solving the acute officer shortage problem by announcing a number of initiatives it believes will help to bolster crew numbers and encourage an industry wide drive to improve the training of cadets entering he industry.
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NewsFlag States Crucial to Marine Safety
The role of a flag state in assisting shipowners to achieve safe and efficient operation of ships cannot be understated, according to John Ramage, managing director of International Registries (U.K.) Limited, which administers the Marshall Islands Registry.
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NewsExpanded Maritime Training in Norway
Kongsberg Maritime opened the doors to a new training facility at its Bekkajordet, Horten, Norway site at the end of August.
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Marine Firefighting for Turkey and Egypt
A new marine fire fighting system designed by Anglesey based company Marinex, has won a five figure deal to supply high speed military patrol boats in Turkey.
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NewsMegan M Emerges from a Clever Conversion
Many multi-purpose work vessels have been described in these pages and all have one thing in common. They are constructed to fulfil the special needs of their operator''s business and each vessel reflects, as near as possible and within sensible financial constraints, the ideal vessel to meet the client''s demands. ...
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Hagglunds Goes ROVing with Subsea 7
For a number of years Hagglunds have provided the motor/brake assemblies used by subsea engineering and construction company Subsea 7 on ROV deployment winches together with the power units and controls designed specifically o the working environment and the duty required. This includes the auxiliary systems to operate the ''A'' ...
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NewsRolls-Royce Lifts Heavy Contract
Rolls-Royce has signed a £ 24m contract with SE Shipping in Singapore covering the supply of integrated equipment systems for four large heavy lift vessels. There are also options for systems for a further eight vessels which could triple the order value.
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NewsPowerful Pulling with Markey's New Winch
Seattle USA based Markey Machinery has completed of the first winch for the current series of tugs under construction at Nichols Brothers Shipyard. This Electric Hawser Winch, designated the DEPCF-52, is installed on the Crowley chartered tug ''Valor'', which is on charter from Baydelta Maritime.
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Carrousel Turns to Bigger Things
Ropes, stretchers and other materials incorporating the super strong polyethylene fibre DSM Dyneema are being tested on board the tug ''Multratug 12'', the first vessel to be equipped with the Carrousel towing system.
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NewsReflex Reaction Builds Bigger Frog
Aberdeen based marine transfer and lift solutions provider Reflex Marine responded to client requests in developing the Frog-6, a higher capacity version of the original, three-person Frog (Frog-3), for moving up to six people at a time by crane. The first Frog-6 units are in use in Indonesia and Reflex ...
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NewsAirborne Viking Ship Clears Rooftops
The Modulift modular spreader system has recently been utilised by Meade Crane Services Ltd to assist in the transportation of the replica Viking ship, the ''Sea Stallion of Glendalough'', to the National Museum at Collins Barracks in Dublin.
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NewsShip to Shore Cable Promises Cleaner Ports
Cables and cabling systems specialist Nexans has developed an innovative hybrid MV (medium voltage) ship to shore connection cable that enables ships berthed in port to cut their engines and plug in to the local power grid, as well as providing an integrated data and telecommunications link.
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NewsNew Remote Control Firefighting Monitors
Tyco Safety Products Fire Suppression Group has unveiled its new generation of SKUM brand remotely controllable FJM-EL fog / jet firefighting monitors for use on firefighting boats, multi-role pilot boats, tugs, workboats and merchant shipping. Pronounced ''skoom'', SKUM is the Swedish word for foam.
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NewsMore Grunt for Latest Travelift
America''s Marine Travelift Inc has unveiled the latest development in its Mariner forklift series. The Mariner M2500 is capable of lifting 25,000 pounds, 5,000 more than the previous model as the result of a Cummins QSB4.5 Tier III engine, which has 130 HP output.
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NewsNew Crane Rail Installed at SCT
A new crane rail has been installed at Southampton Container Terminals (SCT) to accommodate the two new post-panamax quayside gantry cranes which are due to be operational during the second quarter of 2008.
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NewsSeabed Cranes Excavate Lost Cargo
This summer the Netherland''s Seatec Underwater Systems BV provided several underwater monitoring systems , subsea pump units, various subsea components and engineering assistance which enabled Mammoet Salvage to recover part of a cargo of aluminium bars from a sunken cargo ship in the Baltic Sea using two cranes located on ...
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Guidance on Underwater Air Lift Bags
Updated guidance on ''Underwater Air Lift Bags'' has been published by the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA). It addresses the initial and periodic examination, testing, certification and maintenance of underwater type bags (cylindrical totally enclosed, closed and open parachute bags) used by divers to lift submerged objects.
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NewsInternational Collaboration on Seaglider
Having taken eight years to perfect, Seaglider is a buoyancy driven autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) developed by scientists and engineers at the University of Washington''s School of Oceanography and Applied Physics Laboratory in the USA.
