Accessories & Equipment

Limited places are still available for Brevini and NFPC’s “Stage 2 Winch Hydraulic Systems” training course at the UK’s National Fluid Power Centre, 7-9th November 2016.

Spinlock, a UK-headquartered designer and manufacturer of commercial and leisure lifejackets, recently announced that it has been leading an exciting research and development project with the European Space Agency (ESA).

The Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy (NVNA) in Varna, Bulgaria, has acquired VSTEP equipment for its new simulation centre.

Clyde Training Solutions (CTS) has opened a dedicated marine and offshore international training centre in central Scotland.

Personal Locator Beacons are a major contribution to safety at sea, and UK-based Global Telesat Communications (GTC) has made it easy to rent one for less than £5 a day (including VAT).

Following the 2014 Marine Accident Investigation Branch report into two amphibious DUKW accidents in the UK, the business model of using these 1940s military vehicles for city tours has taken a further…

German wind energy service company SeaRenergy/ SMC recently successfully ran a charity game on their stand at WindEnergy Hamburg, raising 3,500 EUR for the DGzRS (German Maritime Search and Rescue Association).

With the growing concern over the vulnerability of GPS and other satellite positioning fixing systems to jamming and spoofing there is a demand for alternative systems as a back-up.

The German navigation system manufacturer Raytheon Anschütz has supplied an advanced gyro compass system for two 25,000 dwt polar class heavy transport vessels.

Seldom can a sight-seeing vessel have turned so many heads in commercial shipping as the carbon fibre ‘Vision of the Fjords’, reported in last month’s ‘Maritime Journal’. According to Simrad though, it…

UK-headquartered maritime training company ECDIS Limited claims that its new ECDIS ACAT service helps bridge the gaps between ECDIS qualifications and Officers’ actual real-world competencies to safely operate their vessels’ specific systems.

US-based Hyndsight Vision Systems has designed a new lightweight, waterproof wire free camera and monitor unit.

Marine electronics expert, JRC, and integrated bridge solution expert, Alphatron Marine, have delivered an AlphaBridge system to a new double ended passenger ferry being built at La Naval Shipyard in Bilbao, Spain.