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GPS backup buy-in
Ship management company, EuroShip Services Ltd, has installed eLoran as a back up to GPS to ensure the safety of its vessels operating off the coast of the UK. The installation is on a trial basis with a view to implementing it across the entire fleet of vessels managed by ...
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NewsExcel Marine uses Seawork to launch Bilge-Bug
A new water detection switch for bilge pump operation is to be launched by Excel Marine at this year’s Seawork. The Bilge-Bug is designed and engineered in the UK to provide safe and reliable clearance of bilge water.
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NewsEurocarrier launch
GSS Marine Services, Maassluis, subsidiary of GSS Marine Services based in Scotland has announced that their new Eurocarrier ‘Marilyn M’ has left the harbour of Maassluis to start on her first assignment; conducting dredging support work on the Belgian coast.
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NewsGRP experts
UK-based GRP and composite moulding experts Norco will be displaying their specialised services for the first time at the SeaWork International Commercial Marine and Workboat Exhibition, on the 16th - 18th June, at the ABP Port of Southampton.
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NewsLifting personnel safely
Harken Industrial is launching its new LokHead winch at Seawork 2015 - a self-tailing, man-riding winch with the security and safety of a captive head, and the company claims, offering complete security against accidental free fall.
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NewsNew capstan design
Seaway Powell Marine has revealed a new design of capstan. These new winches build on the Seaway Powell Marine reputation for quality and robustness, but the real changes are inside with modern bearing technology minimising servicing requirements.
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NewsThe world’s most sophisticated ocean simulator
The world’s first circular wave and tidal current test facility is uses a package of ABB electrical and control equipment, including servo drives and low voltage variable-speed drives, to simulate energetic sea-states typically found in British, European and international waters.
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NewsNew plug and play smart buoy system from Hydrosphere and Rock Seven
Hydrosphere will show its latest Buoy Sentinel at this year’s Seawork exhibition. Developed in conjunction with iridium partner Rock Seven, the Buoy Sentinel tracks and monitors moored or free bloating buoys or any outdoor asset which needs to be tracked.
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NewsShakespeare is the first to use silver plating
“As far as we know we’re the first to use the new technology,” so says Chris Catoe of the Shakespeare Antenna Group, speaking about the use of silver plating on antennas. “We’ve not seen anyone else doing it out of our competitors.”
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NewsBags of answers for crucial tests
It’s a Catch-22 situation: load-bearing deck structures require regular testing but when it comes to man handling solid weights into things like lifeboats, for example, it becomes a scary proposition.
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NewsTurkish interest in special solutions
A number of recent Turkish research vessels have gone for a Sea-Bird – MacArtney oceanographic instrumentation and winch combination: Hans Jorgen Hansen of MacArtney puts it down to reliability “and word getting around”.
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NewsPower for pull
The recently launched icebreaker ‘Murmansk’ is big and extremely powerful, but not all of that energy is simply centred on the propulsion.
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NewsExporting professionalism
“People often sigh when you talk about Health and Safety,” Denis Hogan of LEEA International told MJ, but he argued “it’s one of Europe’s most successful exports”.
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NewsWinches, knuckleboom and a big fin for Tridens I
It was originally budgetary cuts that pushed the Dutch government into thinking about extending the life of the 25 year old MS ‘Tridens I’, but whatever the driver, it certainly gave rise to an interesting refit.
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NewsDon Cockrill: the realities of pilotage
Don Cockrill and his team in the UK Maritime Pilots Association are involved, he says “in trying to remedy, literally, centuries of mistrust”.
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NewsMermaid Marine is appointed Lombardini distributor
Seawork 2015 will be used by Mermaid Marine to announce its appointment as UK distributor for Lombardini Marine engines and generators.
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NewsHydrosphere to launch Jet 1200 buoy at Seawork
Aids to navigation company Hydrosphere will launch the latest in navigational aid technology at Seawork 2015.The new type of buoy, the JET1200, is from Mobilis for which Hydrosphere is the British representative.
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NewsStealth technology from Safehaven
Ireland’s Safehaven Marine has taken a big leap into military and stealth boat technology with its new Barracuda. The vessel is a new high speed Interceptor/ Patrol vessel for military and law enforcement applications designed and built in-house by Safehaven Marine, and can be produced at lengths of between 11 ...
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NewsStrategic marine services agreement
James Fisher Marine Services has been awarded a lucrative marine services agreement with Balfour Beatty to deliver a range of integrated marine services in support of the group’s OFTO portfolio of offshore windfarms around the UK.
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NewsMore Italian dredgers destined for Iraq
Italy’s leading dredger builder, Italdraghe, and its consortium partner CPN Srl are currently building three dredgers for the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources.
