All News articles – Page 1178
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NewsAll Systems Go for Gas Turbine Rollers
Testing continues at the new purpose-built Rolls Royce facility in Bristol UK of the MT30 gas turbine engine with which the company will enter a marine application marketplace currently dominated by GE.
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News'CGG Mistral' Lost - Soon After MWB Conversion
The French seismic ship CGG Mistral went down in 750m of water in the eastern Caribbean just before Christmas, a few months after her 22m conversion at Germany''s MWB Motorenwerke in Bremerhaven.
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NewsAdvanced Dual-Band Racon Happy in Remote Locations
Tideland Signal has launched an advanced new version of its SeaBeacon 2 dual-band racon, offering improved performance and economical power consumption which make it suitable for remote solar powered installations near marine fairways, on isolated buoys, platforms, lighthouses and bridges.
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NewsIMO Adopts Maritime Security Code
The International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code is set to come into force on 1 July 2004 following its adoption at a week long Diplomatic Conference attended by 108 Contracting Governments to the 1974 SOLAS Convention which was held at the IMO in London last month.
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Trinity House Extends Marine Renewables Activity
Trinity House, the statuary authority for the maintenance of aids to navigation for England and Wales, continues its expansion of commercial work for third parties with the deployment of a meteorological data buoy for the NoordzeeWind consortium at the first Dutch offshore windfarm.
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Autronica Acquisition
Autronica Fire and Security has acquired Kongsberg Maritime''s fire protection business for just under £ 5m. The new business, a division of Kongsberg Maritime Ship Systems, will gain greater access to global marine markets through Autronica and its sister companies.
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Wartsila Acquires JMC Marine
Norway''s Wartsila Corporation has finalised its acquisition of the Danish propulsion system service company JMC Marine A/S. JMC Marine specialises in propulsion system maintenance based on laser measuring technology and has a turnover of ?3.6m. The acquisition consists of laser measuring and alignment, vibration measuring, analysis and servicing of monitoring ...
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Lilley & Gillie Acquires Walker Marine
Tyneside UK based marine navigational instruments specialists John Lilley & Gillie Ltd has acquired the assets and brands of Thomas Walker & Son Ltd of Birmingham UK, which has a complementary product range.
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NewsAccropodes Provide Solution for Scarborough Coast Protection Works
Edmund Nuttall Limited is approaching the mid-point of a £ 25.7m, 22 month coast protection project awarded to it by client Scarborough Borough Council (with DEFRA providing the major part of the funding).
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NewsABP Shares Rise in Bear Market
Associated British Ports continued its remarkable transformation into stock market favourite with an upbeat pre-Christmas trading update predicting underlying pre-tax profit for the year just ended would be slightly ahead of market expectations when the group''s preliminary results are announced on 19 February. Analysts forecast underlying taxable profits in the ...
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NewsCummins Marine Introduces the QSK60 Engine Range
Cummins Marine followed up the European debut of its new QSK60 engine range at Rotterdam Maritime with an American first appearance last month at the Workboat Show in New Orleans.
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Thales Re-brands Products
California-based Thales Navigation has consolidated all its professional GPS products, including the Ashtech series of systems, under its own name by way of streamlining worldwide marketing operations including those in Europe.
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NewsNew Pontoons for Jenkins Marine
To support their recent growth in the marine civil engineering sector, as well as increase the size of their charter fleet, the Jenkins Marine Group, based in Poole, Dorset has recently purchased three 33 x 10m (approx) flat deck pontoons.
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NewsHoward Marine in Thames Site Investigation
Plymouth UK based Howard Marine has recently undertaken a large site investigation on the River Thames. Working on behalf of Norwest Holst, Howard Marine conducted the work close to the Tilbury Power Station and adjacent to the existing pier, which is to be extended to enable larger vessels to berth ...
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NewsHistoric Pilot Schooner is Transported Home to Hamburg
After 70 years in the United States, the Elbe pilot schooner No 5 Elbe has gone back to her home port Hamburg and the River Elbe, where she started her working life 120 years ago in 1883.
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NewsOne-Box Gyrocompass and Motion Sensor from TSS
A new attitude and heading reference system combining gyrocompass and motion sensor in one box has been launched by the recently re-branded VT TSS Ltd of Whitney UK.
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Isn't It Good, Norwegians Would (Use It If They Could)
The success accruing after only three years for the Trinity House Lighthouse Estate Business Plan in the UK recently attracted a visiting party of 17 national and local government officials from Norway who would like to implement similar enlightened strategies in their own country.
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News'Lynn' Gets the Wind Up Off Whitstable
Plymouth UK based Seastructures Limited has installed a meteorological mast at Kentish Flats, in the Thames Estuary some 11 km off Whitstable, Kent. The mast will be used to collect wind data for a year before the likely go-ahead for an offshore windfarm at the Kentish Flats site.
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French Order for Seismic Integrated Positioning System
French seismic survey company CGG has acquired three SIPS 2 seismic integrated positioning systems from Yateley-based Sonardyne International for real-time positioning of streamers in support of high-resolution 3D surveys aboard its vessels Mistral, Fohn and Harmattan.
