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NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

Colombia’s National Maritime Authority, DIMAR, has renewed the maritime beaconing in Barranquilla (Colombia), furthering the extent of its business with Spanish Aids to Navigation (AToN specialist Almarin.

23rd February 2015

Columbian renewal

23rd February 2015

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

UK- headquartered Global Navigation Solutions (‘GNS’) has announced that Briese Schiffahrt, operators of Germany’s newest research vessel, ‘RV Sonne’, have chosen to install Voyager navigation software on the new German research vessel.…

23rd February 2015

Software for ‘Sonne’

23rd February 2015

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Norway’s Servogear AS is set for a busy future after securing six new contracts for a range of offshore vessels for a total value of around NOK 55m (US$7.4m).

20th February 2015

Servogear wins offshore contracts

20th February 2015

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

Seawork 2015 exhibitor Sola-Cure, the UK-based anti-glare window blind supplier, has recently installed blinds on the 16.50m survey vessel ‘Porth Dinllaen’. The ‘Porth Dinllaen’ is owned by Holyhead-Based company, Turbine Transfers Ltd…

20th February 2015

Combating glare

20th February 2015

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

Sealite has introduced a new 5 degree LED Sectored Port Entry Light, which provides an overall 5 degree beam width and over 500,000cd of lighting power at only 30watts electrical consumption.

20th February 2015

Port entry light

20th February 2015

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The first in a series of seminars covering the challenges of ECDIS Implementation, Procedures & Solutions was successfully held in the Yacht Club Greece, Athens. The hosts of this event, ChartWorld International…

20th February 2015

ECDIS seminar report

20th February 2015

SEAWORK NEWS

SEAWORK NEWS

If several people end up in the water after an accident at sea, it can take many stressful hours to recover them.

20th February 2015

New mass casualty recovery cradle

20th February 2015

SECURITY

SECURITY

With the now almost universal use of GPS for navigation and timing, the potential for jamming of the GPS signal is causing increasing concern. Originally developed for military use, systems were produced…

20th February 2015

GPS anti-jamming

20th February 2015

INSURANCE, LEGAL & FINANCE

INSURANCE, LEGAL & FINANCE

The new sulphur emission regulations for ships have been a hotly contended issue from the start but now debate has moved to their implementation, or more accurately, enforcing compliance. The enforcement of…

20th February 2015

Enforcing the regs

20th February 2015

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Piet Brouwer Electrotechnology is to supply the diesel-electric propulsion system and electrical system for a new 108m windfarm support vessel (WSV).

20th February 2015

Piet Brouwer wins WSV order

20th February 2015