Navaids 13-18 – Page 12
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NewsWarning fund for Arctic waters
New meteorological and navigational warning services in the Arctic will provide enhanced accessibility to weather data and navigational shipping information.
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NewsNavigation buoys for Abu Dhabi’s channel
In only 90 days, Tideland Signal Limited has manufactured and supplied a total of 84 polyethylene buoys to guide navigation in a newly dredged 63.5km channel.
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NewsGLA Coastal Beacon monitoring
Zeework Ltd, the Trimble Marine dealer for UK and Ireland, has been awarded the contract to supply GNSS receivers to the General Lighthouse Authorities of the UK and Ireland.
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NewsNew buoys mark Angola's LNG terminal
UK based navaids specialist Tideland Signal has supplied SB-2200 and SB-138 polyethylene buoys along with mooring equipment to the new LNG port at Soyo, Angola to mark the newly dredged access channel and turning circle.
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NewsBig buoys mark the way at Dighi Port
Australia based navaid manufacturers Sealite Pty Ltd recently supplied 28 of its ‘big buoys’ fitted with GPS lanterns to mark the channel entrance to the brand new Dighi Port in Maharashtra, Dighi, India.
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NewsNew marine beacon lights entrance to Newhaven
UK aid to navigation supplier Hydrosphere has launched the new T1200, a medium buoyancy tail tube buoy and secured a bevy of new orders, including an important contract with Newhaven Port Authority.
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News‘Rigwatcher’ developed for decommissioned rigs
The Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB), in cooperation with the Norwegian Coastal Administration (Kystverket) and the offshore oil and gas industry, has been at the forefront of developing new techniques for the marking of offshore facilities during the decommissioning process and post-decommissioning.
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NewsSubsidy for Irish Lights will cease
The unequivocal message from UK Government Minister Mike Penning was that the subsidy for navigation lights in Ireland ‘is an anomaly which has to stop’.
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NewsMinister responds to Navaid report
The General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) of the UK and Ireland have welcomed an official response of the Minister to the report from Atkins consultants entitled ‘Assessment of the provision of marine aids to navigation around the United Kingdom and Ireland’.
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NewsUK lighthouse saved for the nation
A UK lighthouse has been saved for the nation after being handed over to English Heritage by previous owners Trinity House.
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NewsSee Sealite’s latest lantern at Seawork
At the beginning of 2009, Seawork 2010 exhibitor Sealite undertook a research and development program into the next generation of long range LED lanterns. This year sees the culmination of these efforts with the release of the Apollo-155 lantern series, an engineering accomplishment encompassing the latest in LED and optical ...
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NewsNew life for historic buoys
Lancashire based painting and decorating contractor T Harrison Limited has recently completed work on the refurbishment of two historic ‘bell-boat’ buoys that once marked the safe approach to Preston Docks.
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NewsGLAs complete five year AtoN review
The General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) of the United Kingdom and Ireland are Trinity House, the Northern Lighthouse Board and the Commissioners of Irish Lights.
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NewsNavaids light first floating wind turbine
Tideland Signal has supplied Norway’s Statoil ASA with a comprehensive package of aids to navigation to warn shipping in the vicinity of its revolutionary Hywind floating wind turbine.
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NewsLight Dues will still rise
Although the UK Government has softened its April Light Dues hike to 2%, according to Maritime UK this could still cause significant harm to UK trade.
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NewsTruckloads of buoys for Sheringham Shoal
This month sees the start of the installation phase for MT Hojgaard of the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm but, as John Caskey of Hydrosphere told MJ, ‘Nothing much can happen until the site marking buoys are placed in position’.
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NewsUK Government to review Light Dues charging
The UK Government has launched a fresh review of the Light Dues charging regime which will attempt to deal with how navigational aids are funded and managed. They have drafted in the consultancy firm Atkins, which will report to ministers in spring 2010.
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NewsHybridTouch aids workboat navigation
Raymarine has just introduced its new line of E-Series Widescreen Multifunction Displays (MFD) with HybridTouch to the US market. The HybridTouch user interface gives operators the simplicity and ease of touch screen operation, and also the confidence of complete keypad control in rough seas or inclement weather.
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NewsNew fund to improve navigational safety in Straits
A new IMO Trust Fund has been launched to help improve navigational safety in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore. To kickstart the fund Greece, a key user of the Straits, have contributed an initial $1m.
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NewsLanterns replace rotating beacon in Irish lighthouse
The Commissioners of Irish Lights have chosen two MaxLED-600 lanterns from Tideland Signal to replace a PRB rotating beacon with incandescent lamps in its Straw Island lighthouse because of the MaxLED' s compact, low consumption design, which makes it ideally suited to the limited solar power supply available given the ...
