Navaids

Visitors to Seawork will be able to see the Vega VSL-73 LED Sector Light, on show for the first time on Hydrosphere’s Stand A77.

The India Directorate General of Lighthouses and Lightships (DGLL) has decided to deploy a coastal surveillance system covering the entire Indian mainland coast, and has looked to a European company to put…

In only 90 days, Tideland Signal Limited has manufactured and supplied a total of 84 polyethylene buoys to guide navigation in a newly dredged 63.5km channel.

Zeework Ltd, the Trimble Marine dealer for UK and Ireland, has been awarded the contract to supply GNSS receivers to the General Lighthouse Authorities of the UK and Ireland.

UK based navaids specialist Tideland Signal has supplied SB-2200 and SB-138 polyethylene buoys along with mooring equipment to the new LNG port at Soyo, Angola to mark the newly dredged access channel…

Australia based navaid manufacturers Sealite Pty Ltd recently supplied 28 of its ‘big buoys’ fitted with GPS lanterns to mark the channel entrance to the brand new Dighi Port in Maharashtra, Dighi,…

UK aid to navigation supplier Hydrosphere has launched the new T1200, a medium buoyancy tail tube buoy and secured a bevy of new orders, including an important contract with Newhaven Port Authority.

The Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB), in cooperation with the Norwegian Coastal Administration (Kystverket) and the offshore oil and gas industry, has been at the forefront of developing new techniques for the marking…

The unequivocal message from UK Government Minister Mike Penning was that the subsidy for navigation lights in Ireland ‘is an anomaly which has to stop’.

The General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) of the UK and Ireland have welcomed an official response of the Minister to the report from Atkins consultants entitled ‘Assessment of the provision of marine aids…

A UK lighthouse has been saved for the nation after being handed over to English Heritage by previous owners Trinity House.

At the beginning of 2009, Seawork 2010 exhibitor Sealite undertook a research and development program into the next generation of long range LED lanterns. This year sees the culmination of these efforts…

Lancashire based painting and decorating contractor T Harrison Limited has recently completed work on the refurbishment of two historic ‘bell-boat’ buoys that once marked the safe approach to Preston Docks.

The General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) of the United Kingdom and Ireland are Trinity House, the Northern Lighthouse Board and the Commissioners of Irish Lights.

Tideland Signal has supplied Norway’s Statoil ASA with a comprehensive package of aids to navigation to warn shipping in the vicinity of its revolutionary Hywind floating wind turbine.

Although the UK Government has softened its April Light Dues hike to 2%, according to Maritime UK this could still cause significant harm to UK trade.

This month sees the start of the installation phase for MT Hojgaard of the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm but, as John Caskey of Hydrosphere told MJ, ‘Nothing much can happen until…

The UK Government has launched a fresh review of the Light Dues charging regime which will attempt to deal with how navigational aids are funded and managed. They have drafted in the…

Raymarine has just introduced its new line of E-Series Widescreen Multifunction Displays (MFD) with HybridTouch to the US market. The HybridTouch user interface gives operators the simplicity and ease of touch screen…

A new IMO Trust Fund has been launched to help improve navigational safety in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore. To kickstart the fund Greece, a key user of the Straits, have…