Navaids

One marine association is moving from an NGO to an IGO to have more clout at government level.

One UK supplier of marine aids to navigation has recently demonstrated how important strategic navaid deployment is for ships being able to navigate into ports safely.

Wärtsilä Voyage has successfully completed its first commercial installation of its WebVTS 5.0 software application with a system to monitor the Wintershall Noordzee wind farm writes Dag Pike.

In a recent blog post, John Caskey of Hydrosphere has suggested that the recently accelerated move towards zero carbon shipping could also herald significant investment in Aids to Navigation.

Australian navaids supplier Sealite, has announced that it will soon launch a new protocol convertor called Universal Gateway.

Southbay Civil Engineering Limited together with its specialist delivery partner Red7Marine have been undertaking critical works to three Aids to Navigation structures in New Brighton, UK, on behalf of Wirral Borough Council.

There are over 5,000 Aids to Navigation in the waters around Finland, so AtoN manufacturer Meritaito had the bright idea these could work smarter. One issue, however, is onboard power.

A new a high intensity, two-tier marine lantern has been launched with a range of 7-11NM.