Navaids

The growing use of GNSS in recent years has stimulated marine navigation and AtoN capability, with many of those involved in the field predicting the replacement of racons with such systems.

Barcelona based aids to navigation manufacturer and distributor Almarin has supplied six new buoys for Port Authority of Marín and Ría de Pontevedra as part of a program to improve the AtoN…

Technology to automatically counter the threat of GPS jamming has been successfully demonstrated for the first time, it was announced last week.

Australia based navaids manufacturer Sealite Pty Ltd has introduced its new Trident-2600 Ocean Buoy, the first Sealite buoy to be built in the United Kingdom.

Following reports that our satellite navigation systems are vulnerable to attack from both solar flares in space and the nefarious activities of hackers on the ground comes the news that counter-technology is…

The multipurpose Fujairah Port in the United Arab Emirates lies only 70 nautical miles from the Straits of Hormuz, so its services play an important part in the country’s oil transhipment.

With an increasing number of companies needing lights and buoys for short term projects or suffering budgetary constraints, a new rental service has just been launched which is already proving popular with…

Hydrosphere UK Ltds contract for the rental of six cardinal buoys to mark Britains largest wind farm, Greater Gabbard, has been extended by Fluor Limited.

Australia based navaids manufacturer Sealite has release the next generation of its popular GSM web portal.

New Zealand based marine safety products manufacturer Vesper Marine has been awarded an IHS Safety at Sea Award 2012 in the ‘Equipment’ category for its Virtual AIS Beacon, a system that creates,…

South Wales based Corilla Marine, which has been producing rotationally moulded parts for over 35 years, has become an Industrial Member of IALA.

Aibel AS of Norway has chosen Tideland Signal to supply a comprehensive package of Syncrolan LED light stations for the new Gudrun development in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

John Simpson, Echomax’s inimitable MD, has just gone to the expense of putting an inflatable passive radar reflector through its paces at his own expense.

Work to secure the future of a vital aid to navigation in the UK’s Solent is set to start this summer.

Loop Head Lighthouse in County Clare is among hundreds of lighthouses and lightships worldwide participating in an event this weekend aimed at promoting public awareness of lighthouses and lightships.

Under its framework agreement with the General Lighthouse Authorities of the UK and Ireland (GLAs), Tideland Signal has won a further order from Trinity House for seven of its -50dBm SeaBeacon 2…

Sealite has recently launched the next generation SL15 and SLC310 Solar LED Marine Lantern, and the new SLC410 with larger power supply.