Accessories & Equipment

The UK shipping minister Mike Penning MP presented the 2010 British Shipping Safety Awareness Awards at a ceremony held at the Chamber of Shipping in London.

The first commercially installed example of a new model inflatable slide and raft system has successfully completed trials on board the small ferry L’Estuaire on the river Gironde in France.

Phoenicia, the replica 600BC wooden ship, has arrived triumphantly back in Syria having completed a 20,000 mile circumnavigation of Africa.

America’s Iridium Communications Inc is collaborating with the Danish Maritime Safety Administration (DaMSA) in EfficienSea, a pilot e-Navigation project for Maritime Safety Information (MSI) broadcasts to ships in waters outside the coverage…

Germany’s Raytheon Anschütz announced a recently awarded contract to supply their latest generation of Integrated Bridge System (IBS) to a new polar supply and research vessel at the SMM exhibition in Hamburg.

The Furuno INS Training Centre in Copenhagen has become the first in the world to have the course IMO Model Course 1.32 Operational use and understanding of Integrated Bridge Systems (IBS), including…

A VTMS contract between Libya’s Ports and maritime Transport Authority (PMTA) and Transas to supply and install the national scale Coastal Surveillance System was signed last month in Tripoli.

Electronics manufacturer Standard Horizon has launched the GX2100E and GX2000E, two new Class D VHF DSC transceivers which can display comprehensive AIS data on their large LCD back-lit panels.

Marine satellite communications experts Global Telesat Communications has launched what it claims is the most cost effective global broadband voice and data service through a single antenna, Inmarsat FleetBroadband Sailor 150 (FB150).

Netherlands based heavy construction equipment expert Huisman Equipment BV has signed an agreement with Heerema Offshore Services to deliver all equipment onboard Heerema’s new Deep Water Construction Vessel.