All News articles – Page 910
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NewsFirst automated mooring system for Scandinavia
Cavotec MSL has successfully completed commissioning of Scandinavia’ s first fully automated vacuum-based mooring system, MoorMaster, with Danish ferry operator Nordic Ferry Services (NFS).
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News'Fighting spirit' brings record numbers to METS 2009
Exhibitor confidence runs high for the Marine Equipment Trade Show, METS 2009, which runs from 17 to 19 November in Halls 1 to 5 plus 9, 10 and 11 of the Amsterdam RAI and extending to the stunning new Elicium building, where the DAME presentation and Media Plaza are situated.
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NewsGPS synchronises upgraded navaids
Tideland Signal has supplied a package of navigational warning systems for the Ekofisk complex in the North Sea to replace redundant older systems and to interface with earlier Tideland equipment which has been in service for some 25 years.
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NewsSAM goes Platinum in Rotterdam
Hamburg based SAM Electronics introduced a range of new generation vessel control systems at the Europort exhibition in Rotterdam earlier this month.
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NewsGermans order new fisheries research ship
The German Bundestag has approved an € 11m order for a new and bigger fisheries research ship to be built at the specialist Fassmer Shipyard for delivery in 2011.
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NewsSolar marine lantern survives 'extreme testing'
The first solar powered marine lantern with a built in ‘ intelligent deployment’ feature aims to make life easy. Because it automatically tunes itself to its location, it protects itself against improper configuration (while also adjusting for a Schmidt-Clausen effect).
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NewsLong ride for world's biggest buoy
Beluga Shipping’ s transport ship MV Beluga Formation has transported the world’ s largest buoy from Indonesia to the Gulf of Mexico.
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NewsBrake expansion continues with second new berth
s growing Lower Weser port of Brake is expected to start before the end of the year and be completed by the end of 2010.
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NewsRotterdam ready for Europort 2009
Europort returns to Rotterdam next week, with a run from 3 to 6 November which will see professionals from across the commercial marine spectrum flocking to the maritime capital of Europe.
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NewsUnderwater images move out of the shadows
A new scanner that provides easily read underwater images will prove useful at the smaller end of the commercial workboat market.
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NewsHarbourWatch keeps an eye on the tugs
A newly developed GSM based ship to shore monitoring and alarm system from Essex UK based P& S Automation Ltd is intended for use on board tugs and other workboats.
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NewsOrkney Islands Council green lights marine renewables
Orkney Islands Council ratified plans on Tuesday for the £ 3million redevelopments of the ‘ Golden Wharf’ at Lyness to be included in the Council’ s major works for 2010/2011.
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NewsPartnering for powerful condition monitoring system
Intelligent predictive maintenance solutions supplier Artesis has recently partnered with marine specialists James Fisher Mimic to integrate its Motor Condition Monitor (MCM) solution with the marine company’ s Mimic condition monitoring system.
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NewsMaritime school charts course for ECDIS training
Norway’ s Jeppesen Marine is contributing to the training of the next generation of seafarers in electronic navigational charts and ECDIS by supplying systems and data to a leading maritime training institution, Bergen Maritime Technical School.
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New Tritech systems
Hydrographic surveys, seabed asset inspections and pre and post-dredge assessments are among applications cited by Tritech International for its new Horizon multibeam echosounder, featuring extremely fast ping rates of up to 100Hz for high speed operations without compromising long track resolution.
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Seatronics to market mini-multibeam units
Equipment sales and rental specialists Seatronics of Aberdeen, which earlier this year invested £ 500,000 in IXSEA subsea navigation and positioning equipment, has concluded an agreement with BlueView Technologies of Seattle.
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Joint Norwegian-Russian surveys
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), the University of Oslo and the Russian Geological Institute (GIN) have begun collaborative mapping of undiscovered natural resources in the Barents Sea and around the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
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NewsMagnetic rope testing guidance published
There are a plethora of wire ropes used on offshore construction vessels. The wires can be very long (several kilometres) and quite inaccessible. They are performing in a harsh environment in terms of being underwater or in corrosive weathers and atmospheres. They often have dynamic and widely fluctuating loading. Yet ...
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NewsFugro upgrades survey vessel
Fugro Survey, which has bases in Aberdeen and Great Yarmouth UK, has completed a further upgrade of its 70m all purpose seabed survey vessel, Fugro Discovery.
