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KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

Europort returns to Rotterdam next week, with a run from 3 to 6 November which will see professionals from across the commercial marine spectrum flocking to the maritime capital of Europe.

9th October 2009

Rotterdam ready for Europort 2009

9th October 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

Germany’ s &euro

9th October 2009

JWP takes shape as logistics tenders invited

9th October 2009

PORTS & HARBOURS

PORTS & HARBOURS

s growing Lower Weser port of Brake is expected to start before the end of the year and be completed by the end of 2010.

9th October 2009

Brake expansion continues with second new berth

9th October 2009

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

Tideland Signal has supplied a package of navigational warning systems for the Ekofisk complex in the North Sea to replace redundant older systems and to interface with earlier Tideland equipment which has…

9th October 2009

GPS synchronises upgraded navaids

9th October 2009

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

Beluga Shipping’ s transport ship MV Beluga Formation has transported the world’ s largest buoy from Indonesia to the Gulf of Mexico.

9th October 2009

Long ride for worlds biggest buoy

9th October 2009

NAVAIDS

NAVAIDS

The first solar powered marine lantern with a built in ‘ intelligent deployment’ feature aims to make life easy. Because it automatically tunes itself to its location, it protects itself against improper…

9th October 2009

Solar marine lantern survives extreme testing

9th October 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Hamburg based SAM Electronics introduced a range of new generation vessel control systems at the Europort exhibition in Rotterdam earlier this month.

9th October 2009

SAM goes Platinum in Rotterdam

9th October 2009

KEY DEALS

KEY DEALS

The German Bundestag has approved an € 11m order for a new and bigger fisheries research ship to be built at the specialist Fassmer Shipyard for delivery in  2011.

9th October 2009

Germans order new fisheries research ship

9th October 2009

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

A newly developed GSM based ship to shore monitoring and alarm system from Essex UK based P& S Automation Ltd is intended for use on board tugs and other workboats.

8th October 2009

HarbourWatch keeps an eye on the tugs

8th October 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

A new scanner that provides easily read underwater images will prove useful at the smaller   end of the commercial workboat market.

8th October 2009

Underwater images move out of the shadows

8th October 2009

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Orkney Islands Council ratified plans on Tuesday for the £ 3million redevelopments of the ‘ Golden Wharf’ at Lyness to be included in the Council’ s major works for 2010/2011.

8th October 2009

Orkney Islands Council green lights marine renewables

8th October 2009

MONITORING & CONTROL

MONITORING & CONTROL

Intelligent predictive maintenance solutions supplier Artesis has recently partnered with marine specialists James Fisher Mimic to integrate its Motor Condition Monitor (MCM) solution with the marine company’ s Mimic condition monitoring system.

7th October 2009

Partnering for powerful condition monitoring system

7th October 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

Norway’ s Jeppesen Marine is contributing to the training of the next generation of seafarers in electronic navigational charts and ECDIS by supplying systems and data to a leading maritime training institution,…

6th October 2009

Maritime school charts course for ECDIS training

6th October 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

There are a plethora of wire ropes used on offshore construction vessels. The wires can be very long (several kilometres) and quite inaccessible. They are performing in a harsh environment in terms…

6th October 2009

Magnetic rope testing guidance published

6th October 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

The quality of the hydraulic oil used in marine cranes, hoists and winches is rarely monitored effectively, with occasional oil changes being seen as the easiest, but not necessarily cheapest, solution, says…

6th October 2009

Cleaner hydraulics work more effectively

6th October 2009

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

ACCESSORIES & EQUIPMENT

In order to expand capacity, Malta Freeport has needed to undertake some heavy lifting. On this occasion it is what not about lifting containers but rather, the container cranes themselves.

6th October 2009

Maltese cranes take it on truss

6th October 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Fugro Survey, which has bases in Aberdeen and Great Yarmouth UK, has completed a further upgrade of its 70m all purpose seabed survey vessel, Fugro Discovery.

6th October 2009

Fugro upgrades survey vessel

6th October 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), the University of Oslo and the Russian Geological Institute (GIN) have begun collaborative mapping of undiscovered natural resources in the Barents Sea and around the Norwegian Arctic…

6th October 2009

Joint Norwegian-Russian surveys

6th October 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Equipment sales and rental specialists Seatronics of Aberdeen, which earlier this year invested £ 500,000 in IXSEA subsea navigation and positioning equipment, has concluded an agreement with BlueView Technologies of Seattle.

6th October 2009

Seatronics to market mini-multibeam units

6th October 2009

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Hydrographic surveys, seabed asset inspections and pre and post-dredge assessments are among applications cited by Tritech International for its new Horizon multibeam echosounder, featuring extremely fast ping rates of up to 100Hz…

6th October 2009

New Tritech systems

6th October 2009