Navaids

Australia-headquartered Sealite, which claims to be the worlds fastest growing manufacturer of marine aids to navigation, has announced the appointment of Mr. Malcolm Nicholson to the role of Global Engineering Manager.

Acciona Infrastructures in Spain, along with Huntsman Advanced Technology have been awarded recognition at the composites show JEC World for the first ever all composite lighthouse in Valencia.

Irish company JFC Manufacturing has announced details of a new range of polyethylene buoys, at the ‘Innovating the future of Marine Navigation Safety’ conference in Galway in October. The buoys are being…

Almarin, a Spanish manufacturer of Marine Aids to Navigation, has carried out the design, supply and installation of three lantern rooms with their respective domes for the Port of Barcelona, Spain.

New engineering methods are being used to cut costs and provide safer navigation. The developments have come about through collaboration between aids to navigation supplier Hydrosphere and ABP Southampton which manages and…

Australia-headquartered AtoN specialist Sealite has introduced a new high intensity LED Range Light, which provides over 420,000cd and, the company claims, has a visible range of over 23NM.

One of the UK’s most iconic navigational aids has been given a new lease of life thanks to ABP Southampton.

Floating LIDAR systems offer a much cheaper alternative to evaluating wind farm sites than establishing a fixed measuring station. German renewables developer RWE Innogy, in partnership with the operator of the Eneco…

There can be few Aids to Navigation (AtoN) as remotely located as the three Rigwatcher units marking the decommissioned Frigg Field on the UK/Norwegian median in the North Sea.

Ham radio operators operating out of Loop Head Lighthouse in Ireland made 923 contacts with counterparts in 49 other countries as part of the International Lighthouse & Lightship Weekend (ILLW) over the…

Spanish navaids specialist Almarin has launched a new range of mooring buoys. These are designed for mooring vessels, as well as for containment booms and supporting floating cages used in aquaculture.

Canadian remote monitoring buoy specialist AXYS Technologies has announced that four WatchKeeper metocean buoys were selected by the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG) to be used by the Autoridade Publica Olimpica…

Seawork exhibitor Tideland Signal Corporation has introduced the latest addition to its self-contained LED lantern product line. The SolaMAX-3 lantern contains some features that have been designed to meet industry standards and…

IRClass (Indian Register of Shipping), a Classification society and member of IACS, has just completed the new construction survey of a high value, technologically sophisticated Buoy Tender cum multi-purpose vessel built by…