Accessories & Equipment

Eastbourne RNLI Lifeboat Station’s new £2.7m Tamar lifeboat, which will be named Diamond Jubilee in honour of RNLI Patron, Her Majesty The Queen took to the water for the very first time…

In recent years there have been a number of accidents caused by the failure of on-load release hooks during lifeboat drills, which have resulted in seafarers being seriously injured and even killed.

Although the Eurozone may be facing its difficulties, the cross-Europe marine ‘conveyorbelt’ of components for the A380 Airbus is still going strong despite a clash between the ancient and modern worlds at…

A new mooring package especially manufactured for the severest of conditions is about to be fitted to a barge working in Arctic waters.

Wind farms and drilling platforms are becoming more widespread, with construction costs playing an integral role in their development. In previous years, the lack of convincing crane technology has proven to be…

The latest tug simulator at Transas is realistic enough to make a trainee seasick if they miscalculate their turn in a heavy sea state, even if that sea is a virtual one.

Sealite’s BargeSafe Solar has been selected by ASMAR (Astillerros y Maestranzas de la Armada) as the preferred navigation lighting system for use on the bulk transportation barges they are building under contract…

Greater numbers of differing chemicals as well as greater volumes of them are now being transported both by short sea operations as well as by inland waterways since it is proving a…

Coastguard rescue operations, harbour pilots, local police and fire crews all have a number of plans to deal with port emergencies, but whether or not they come together to be effective is…

On board entertainment systems to serve the welfare of crew and/or passengers onboard ships are becoming standard equipment on vessels servicing , for example, the offshore wind farm industry.

Harwich Haven Authority, which operates the Harwich Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) controlling the movements of vessels in and out of the cluster of Suffolk and Essex ports, has upgraded its VTS hardware…

Millions of workers in Europe are exposed to mechanical vibration transmitted to the hands from powered hand tools or to the whole body through industrial seating.

Navis dynamic positioning (DP1) systems are going to be put aboard the innovative ‘Sea Axe Fast Crew Suppliers craft, currently under construction at Damen Shipyards in Gorinchem.

A Norwegian high speed ferry operator is bringing onboard electronic updating of charts and navigation hardware, but the special demands of the ferries’ crew have also had to be met.

Both Dutch and Belgian marine pilots are to be supplied with Portable Pilot Units (PPU), following an order for 25 high precision systems that not just survived but surpassed rigorous testing.

Decisions relating to wind farm construction aren’t all about the geography or wind resource.

“One plus one plus one doesn’t always equal three,” Captain John Wright of WrightWay Training told Maritime Journal.

The programme to bring the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s (RNLI) new Shannon class all weather lifeboat into service reached a key milestone this summer.

Milford Haven Port Authority in Wales has begun a trial of advanced C-Vu 3-dimensional VTS display software from GeoVS.

Swedish commuter ferry operator Stirsöbolage has become the first Scandinavian company to benefit from the new Zodiac MES ESS automatic escape slide.