Navaids – Page 7
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NewsNavaids-driven boost for Irish manufacturing
Irish company JFC Manufacturing has announced details of a new range of polyethylene buoys, at the ‘Innovating the future of Marine Navigation Safety’ conference in Galway in October. The buoys are being produced by the company’s new division, JFC Marine.
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NewsBarcelona refurbishment
Almarin, a Spanish manufacturer of Marine Aids to Navigation, has carried out the design, supply and installation of three lantern rooms with their respective domes for the Port of Barcelona, Spain.
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NewsMilestone reached in engineering project
New engineering methods are being used to cut costs and provide safer navigation. The developments have come about through collaboration between aids to navigation supplier Hydrosphere and ABP Southampton which manages and maintains the navigation lights and buoys in Southampton Water, UK and its approaches.
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Tideland acquisition
US-headquartered navaids specialist Tideland Signal Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the IMT B.V. Group of Companies.
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NewsLED Range Light
Australia-headquartered AtoN specialist Sealite has introduced a new high intensity LED Range Light, which provides over 420,000cd and, the company claims, has a visible range of over 23NM.
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NewsCalshot Spit Light Float receives a new lease of life
One of the UK’s most iconic navigational aids has been given a new lease of life thanks to ABP Southampton.
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NewsHydrosphere wins order to supply 32 lights to Belfast Harbour
Aids to Navigation specialist Hydrosphere, has won an open tender to supply 32 self-contained lights to Belfast Harbour.
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NewsEOLOS buoy validated
Floating LIDAR systems offer a much cheaper alternative to evaluating wind farm sites than establishing a fixed measuring station. German renewables developer RWE Innogy, in partnership with the operator of the Eneco Luchterduinen offshore wind farm, has successfully completed the trial of such a buoy by mooring it in close ...
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NewsKeeping a lonely vigil
There can be few Aids to Navigation (AtoN) as remotely located as the three Rigwatcher units marking the decommissioned Frigg Field on the UK/Norwegian median in the North Sea.
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NewsSending a message to the world
Ham radio operators operating out of Loop Head Lighthouse in Ireland made 923 contacts with counterparts in 49 other countries as part of the International Lighthouse & Lightship Weekend (ILLW) over the weekend of the 15th to 16th August.
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NewsMooring buoy launch
Spanish navaids specialist Almarin has launched a new range of mooring buoys. These are designed for mooring vessels, as well as for containment booms and supporting floating cages used in aquaculture.
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Remote navaid monitoring
AtoN specialist Sabik Ltd, in conjunction with Carmanah are launching at Seawork 2015 the new ‘LightGuard Monitor‘, a remote monitoring system for navaids.
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NewsOlympic met buoys
Canadian remote monitoring buoy specialist AXYS Technologies has announced that four WatchKeeper metocean buoys were selected by the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG) to be used by the Autoridade Publica Olimpica (APO) in support of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
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News3 mile lantern
Seawork exhibitor Tideland Signal Corporation has introduced the latest addition to its self-contained LED lantern product line. The SolaMAX-3 lantern contains some features that have been designed to meet industry standards and deliver a 3NM range with an improved duty cycle, offering, it says, greater flexibility.
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NewsHigh-tech buoy tender
IRClass (Indian Register of Shipping), a Classification society and member of IACS, has just completed the new construction survey of a high value, technologically sophisticated Buoy Tender cum multi-purpose vessel built by Cochin Shipyard Ltd (India) under single class.
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NewsVisitor centre opened
Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal has officially opened the UK’s Portland Bill Lighthouse and Visitor Centre in her capacity as Master of the Corporation of Trinity House.
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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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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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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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NewsNew data buoy from Mobilis
The French National Centre for Scientific Research, the CNRS, has worked with specialist buoy manufacturer Mobilis to develop an advanced automatic data buoy. This has been located in Villefranche Bay and its aim is to measure the coastal marine environment and the impact of human activity on the littoral.
