Accessories & Equipment

A programme of two one day events for the sub IMO / sub 24 metre professional sector is being held ‘back to back’ in Southampton UK on 25 & 26 April 2017.

The City of Amsterdam Fire Department has taken delivery of its new firefighting vessel: the ‘Jan van der Heyde IV’. C-Job Naval Architects provided the concept design for the 17.6-metre vessel. Damen…

UK maritime training provider ECDIS Limited has introduced an offline version of its ACAT courses for clients with little or no internet access onboard.

International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) participated in the 13th session of the EU Offshore Authorities Group (EUOAG) to work on promoting collaboration between international and regional regulators.

Zenitel has delivered safety communications and entertainment equipment for new ferries in Norway.

The second of a planned six sophisticated new 28m Class cruisers has gone into service with Germany’s sea rescue service DGzRS - and will soon be joined by a third.

A new course to assess marine scour risk will take place in June at HR Wallingford to address the pressing need to better understand the processes of scour and erosion, particularly as…

UK independent Lifeboat station, Solent Rescue based in Lymington, Hampshire has recently ordered a 9-metre-long Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) with an enclosed cabin from South African inflatable boatbuilder Gemini Marine.

The world’s first realistic fast small ship simulator, a prototype of which will be delivered next month to the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN), could revolutionise the training of fast-boat crews and influence…

There is an answer to the shocking spate of accidents during lifeboat drills: “A full audit, with an experienced auditor from the line who’s familiar with the up-to-date regulations and who understands…

For those who are wondering what AIS (Automatic Identification System) is, where it is used, and how the different classes of AIS differ, UK-headquartered vessel tracking provider BigOceanData has put together a…

There’s a neat trick that helps spot troubled hydraulic deck equipment.

Romica Engineering, based in Beverley, UK has recently been called on to deliver a containerised deep-ocean mooring winch system for the National Oceanography Centre (NOC).

A compact transfer device with a minimal footprint has been developed by Baltec Offshore that might help CTVs move beyond ‘bump and jump’ manoeuvres – while keeping their speed.

One of the big issues affecting the wind industry is that needs to future-proof itself, but the investment pipeline still lacks clarity, leaving contractors in a difficult situation and trying to minimise…

ACR Electronics, a Drew Marine Company, launched its first Automatic Identification System (AIS) Man Overboard (MOB) device for both the commercial and recreational marine markets at the METSTRADE exhibition in Amsterdam.