Accessories & Equipment

Of particular interest to many visitors to the Transas Marine UK stand at Seawork 2005 was the companys recent installation of a port monitoring system at Portland Harbour inDorset UK.

One of the lifting equipment highlights of Seawork 2005 , on display in the Innovations Showcase and also represented on the Wave Seven Marine stand, was the new marina lifting crane manufactured…

With Berth 1 of the Eurogate Container Terminal nearing completion after 18 months of modernisation works, five giant container cranes arrived in the Port of Hamburg last month following an eight week…

A new system for mooring boats without risking the unsightly and expensive scuffing of hulls has been invented by Richard Meredith of Silverpin Ltd who, describing his invention as the opposite of…

Wave Seven Marine returns to Seawork with representations from the seven non-UK companies it represents on this side of the Channel. Joining Wave 7 ontheir stand will be one of those companies,…

Icom UK has taken pole position as the official radio communication supplier to the Honda Formula 4-Stroke race series championship that kicked off last month at Largs in Scotland and continues later…

Kalmar has received an order from Steveco Oy of Kotka in Finland for nine TRX-252 tractors to be used to move 95 ton Stora Enso cargo units (SECUs) in the port. The…

Thamesport (London) Ltd hastaken delivery of a further eight new Terburg terminal tractors, following on from seven machines which arrived last October.

The Port of Felixstowe hasplaced an order for 12 new Rubber Tyred Gantry Cranes (RTGCs) from Zhenhua Port Machinery Company (ZMPC) of Shanghai for delivery in May of 2006. This is in…

Following 12 months of successful daily operations with the Navtech N100-AC Quay Crane Anti-Collision System , the Port of Bristol UK is planning to install it onto its second quay crane.

Aberdeen UK based lifeboat manufacturers and safety equipment maintenance specialists Survival Craft Inspectorate is taking the rare step of repatriating its production facilities from low wage China to a new 10,000ft 2factory…

A section of the Spanish fishing industry has been convinced that Vynagrip safety matting, traditionally used in the rugged environment of heavy industrial plants, makes an ideal safety covering on the open…

Plymouth UK based SM Group (Europe) Ltd have added to their range of equipment from Australian marine equipment manufacturer GME with the launch of a full specification 406MHz EPIRB.

Norwegian hydraulic solutions specialist ODIM has launched its Safe Anchor Handling System (SAHS) which it believes will revolutionise the safety dimension of anchor handling operations on board the global fleet of offshore…

Visualisation specialist Barco advanced into the VTS market last month, winning a home market contract from the Shipping Assistance Division of the Ministry of the Flemish Community to install a VTS system…