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Northern Lights to Show DECS at Miami Boatshow

Feb 06, 2013

Northern Lights to feature its Diesel Exhaust Cleaning System (DECS) at the 2013 Progressive® Insurance Miami International Boat Show.Based on DCL International’s MARINE-X™ system, DECS removes soot and particulate matter as it is emitted from the diesel engine…

Stern Tube Sealing: Hydrex Use 'Mobdocks'

Feb 06, 2013

Hydrex flexible Mobdocks (mobile mini-drydock) enables underwater repairs that keep vessels out of drydock.Hydrex has carried out repairs and replacements on all types of seals on site, and in most cases underwater, for a number of years now…

Call for Entries: Safe Affordable Ferry Competition

Feb 06, 2013

Call for Entries: Safe Affordable Ferry Competition, Open to Students WorldwideRegistrations are now being accepted for the Worldwide Ferry Safety Association (WFSA)’s annual student competition for the design of safe affordable ferries to serve developing nations…

Noon Fuel Reports Don't Cut It Says NAPA

Feb 06, 2013

NAPA asserts that traditional noon reports don’t give the quantity or quality of data needed by owners in modern shipping.NAPA, a maritime software house for ship design and operations point out that bunker fuel readings for most international…

Fendercare's New Offshore Pipe-Laying Solution

Feb 05, 2013

Fendercare Marine launch a new range of piggyback saddles to assist pipeline installation in the offshore industry.Piggyback saddles - alongside clamps and spacers - can act as a shaped interface between a pipeline and a cylindrical buoyancy tank…

Keeping Track of Cruise Ship Passengers

Feb 05, 2013

SISCO's A-PASS® 6 Wireless Mobile Life Safety & Security Access Control System to be installed on 'Royal Princess'.The Royal Princess is the first of two 1082 ft, 141,000-ton prototypes joining the next generation of the Princess fleet in June 2013…

Haydn Jones Tapped to lead AWT International Ops

Feb 05, 2013

Experienced Marine Industry Executive to Lead Worldwide Management of Sales, Marketing, Strategic Business Development and Channel Partnerships. Applied Weather Technology, Inc. (AWT), is pleased to announce the appointment of Haydn Jones as the company's Director of International Operations…

SMD Integrate SeeByte Software in ROV System

Feb 04, 2013

Soil Machine Dynamics & Seebyte announce successful integration of SeeTrack CoPilot to SMD's work-class ROV system.The integration and trials, which took place in Fort William, Scotland, in mid-January, saw SeeByte’s SeeTrack CoPilot Software…

Ultra-Deepwater Drilling: Technology Design Alliance

Feb 04, 2013

BP signs agreement with Maersk Drilling to develop designs for a new breed of advanced technology offshore drilling rigs.The agreement is part of BP’s Project 20KTM, a multi-year initiative to develop next-generation systems and tools for…

Transas Installs Jordan VTS System

Feb 04, 2013

Transas Middle East instals & commissions standalone AIS solution at the Port of Aqaba, Jordan. Transas standalone AIS solution incorporates the latest VTS technology and meets all international standards. At the core of the system is Transas AIS Base station T214…

ECDIS Type-specific Training on CD

Feb 04, 2013

UK's Lilley and Gillie announce that their Navmaster ECDIS type-specific training CD-Rom is now available.Believed to be the first stand-alone type-specific training CD-Rom available to ship owners, Lilley and Gillie have taken the view that…

Offshore Wind Turbine Design DNV Certified

Feb 04, 2013

Gamesa's 5 MW offshore turbine obtains design certification, a milestone in its offshore wind farm sector progress.Gamesa secures IEC 61400-22 design certification for its G128-5.0 MW offshore wind turbine from independent organisation Det Norske Veritas (DNV)…

Taiwan Training Center ClassNK Certified

Feb 03, 2013

Evergreen Seafarer Training Center (ESTC) earns ClassNK certification for its training courses.Classification society ClassNK announced that it has certified the Bridge Resource Management (BRM), Electronic Chart Display Information Systems…

Maritime & Offshore Technology: Papers Invited

Feb 03, 2013

Europort 2013 issues a call for papers for its Advanced Technology Conferences, November 5-8, 2013 in Rotterdam.Organisers have invited leading national and international players to showcase the global industry’s cutting edge ideas, which…

Engine Piston Surveys Without Opening Up

Feb 03, 2013

German shipping company to implement GL condition monitoring survey arrangement for engine piston performance.German shipping company NSC Schifffahrtsgesellschaft mbH & Cie. KG (NSC) has decided to implement a Condition Monitoring (CM) survey…

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