Navaids

Rothesay Harbour on the Isle of Bute has two equally important demands on its facilities, the car ferry and recreational boats are an equally important part of the island' s trade. When…

Light was thrown on the sterling job of Scottish lighthouses last week when recognition of Princess Anne' s tours raised the profile of the Northern Lighthouse Board.  

Elastic won the day for two customised data buoys that are being deployed in the English Channel off Plymouth last month. The pair of bright yellow, seven metre buoys, bristling with sensitive…

Rolling down the motorways from Nottinghamshire UK, XJF Plastics, which manufactures the environmentally friendly and lightweight Eason marine navigation buoys, will again be displaying its products at Seawork 2008.

The General Lighthouse Authorities of the United Kingdom and Ireland (GLAs) welcomed the recent release of the European eLoran Forum’ s report, ' eLoran: Securing Positioning, Navigation and Timing for Europe’ s…

The harbourmaster on Denmark' s Læsø Island has replaced the incandescent bulbs and lampchanger in a conventional warning lantern with Tideland Signal' s new MaxiHALO-60 LED flasher assembly in order to achieve…

Hampshire UK based Hydrosphere makes another short journey to Seawork 2008, where it will be exhibiting a selection of key products from its range of navigation buoys and lights on Stand 24.

Cookson & Zinn (CZ), the specialist tank and vessel manufacturers, have supplied 24 new buoys for a range of locations around the English and Welsh coast for Trinity House.

Tideland Signal Ltd has won the public tender to supply its Informer V03 AIS to Barcelona Port Authority for installation on four of the port' s most important buoys in order to…

Middlesex UK based Pharos Marine report further orders for the marking of offshore wind generators.

An innovative scheme funded by the European Union' s Interreg IIIA programme to increase safety on the seas was launched last month in Larne, Northern Ireland. The Automatic Identification System will improve…

Sealite Pty Ltd in Australia, have completed the Phase 2 expansion of their new manufacturing facility with an expanded rotational moulding division now in full production.

The growth of the marine leisure market, the increase in numbers of high speed, large craft and changes in traffic patterns coupled with emerging technologies are placing new demands on, and finding…

FenderCare subsidiary Hippo Marine has been selected by Milford Haven Port Authority (MHPA) to supply  five navigational buoys, including moorings, for the new South Hook LNG Terminal development.

Tideland Signal' s AB-560 fog signals have been chosen to warn shipping in the vicinity of what will be the UK' s largest wind farm at Lynn and Inner Dowsing in the…

Following a competitive tender process, Drogheda Port Company has awarded Hydrosphere UK Ltd the contract for the upgrade to solar power of all of its seaward and estuarial navigational aids.

SAM Electronics has introduced SAM 4683, a new IMO and DNV compliant dual-axis doppler log for provision of onboard docking information by calculating a vessel’ s transversal speeds at bow and stern.…

Sheffield UK based Hodge Clemco has completed theinstallation of a new £ 600,000 turn-key preparation and finishing facility in anew buoy maintenance unit at Trinity House in Harwich, Essex.