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ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Navies want to use Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs). They promise to keep boat crews out of high risk environments and extend the outreach of surface vessels. There are already forty prototype USVs…

18th June 2014

Vestdavit perfects USV launching

18th June 2014

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The huge, 9,500 tonne seismic survey vessel Ramform Viking has worked in climates as diverse as West and South Africa, India, the Middle East and the Gulf of Mexico as well as…

17th June 2014

Out of the glare

17th June 2014

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Germany based ECDIS training specialist Safebridge, has extended its portfolio by a new type-specific familiarisation course for the CHARTPILOT 1100/93x0 series made by fellow hamburg firm, SAM Electronics.

17th June 2014

Online Navcomms training

17th June 2014

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Buzz Connect, the UK Company that played a lead role in the recent push to bring affordable broadband to private boats and superyachts, has launched its new HubbaX4 duo, a marine broadband…

16th June 2014

New 3g/4g hi-speed broadband

16th June 2014

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Plans for the worlds biggest crane vessel, a 214m long by 97.5m behemoth, include installing the worlds largest cranes.

16th June 2014

Largest crane vessel, largest cranes

16th June 2014

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Following a two-year development programme, UK based company Teledyne TSS is previewing a new family of AHRS and INS (Inertial Navigation and Attitude and Heading Reference Systems) named Saturn at the Oceanology…

16th June 2014

Teledyne TSS’s new Saturn

16th June 2014

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has published a new Nautical Publication to support the transition to Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS).

13th June 2014

UKHO publishes ECDIS guide

13th June 2014

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

A new solution called FlatFee by US company Jeppesen, promises to help maritime professionals accurately predict charting costs and to streamline the process of purchasing official electronic navigational charts (ENCs).

13th June 2014

ENC management simplified

13th June 2014

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Launch and recovery units have to be considered when the submersibles they serve get an upgrade, especially as the weight always seems to go up, never down.

13th June 2014

Thirty years of weight issues

13th June 2014

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Ferry trade association, Interferry, has commented on the recent ferry disaster in South Korea pointing out that although fatal ferry accidents are rare in developed countries it doesn’t diminish the industry’s ongoing…

13th June 2014

Interferry speaks out about South Korea ferry incident

13th June 2014

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Co-operation – and improvisation – were the keys to getting a dredger off a ship where there was little infrastructure in place the other end.

12th June 2014

Offloading the hard way

12th June 2014

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

UK based marine training provider Maritas have announced at Seawork 2014 that they have received MCA (Maritime and Coastguard Agency) approval to offer the three day course in Human Element Leadership and…

12th June 2014

Maritas to offer HELM (O)

12th June 2014

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Huisman, the Netherlands’ specialist in lifting, drilling, and subsea solutions, has introduced a new rope luffing knuckle boom crane to better provide for subsea installation in increasingly deeper water and in severe…

12th June 2014

Rope luffing knuckle boom crane

12th June 2014

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

SWL Rope Lifting and Testing Ltd has been approved as an Independent Service Provider for the Annual Servicing and Testing of lifeboats and davits with approval from Lloyds Register.

12th June 2014

Lifeboats and davits testing

12th June 2014

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Top Side Offshore Technology has launched a new offshore communication system based on GSM technology, designed to bridge the gaps in communication offshore.

12th June 2014

ComPro bridges the gaps

12th June 2014

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

In 1974 Wim van Wijngaarden founded Van Wijngaarden Marine Services and his company works worldwide. He has worked closely with Double D since 2007 when he ordered a boat at Damen Shipyards…

11th June 2014

Double D and Van Wijngaarden

11th June 2014

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Leading UK wind energy safety training provider, Safety Technology Ltd, has entered into a joint venture with German safety specialist, Offtec to share safety training facilities.

10th June 2014

Joint safety training venture

10th June 2014

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Exhibiting at Seawork International on stand B 133, Standard Horizon announces the arrival of the new GX1200E Eclipse DSC+.

10th June 2014

The affordable DSC VHF

10th June 2014

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Royal Boskalis Westminster has just announced that it has started investigating the potential for a new ultra large V-Class Heavy Transport Vessel (HTV).

10th June 2014

Even bigger for Boskalis?

10th June 2014

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The newly announced £200m British polar research vessel announced by Chancellor George Osborne in April will have state of the art deck equipment, including launch and recovery equipment able to deploy subs…

10th June 2014

New polar ship equipment

10th June 2014