News AtoN and Mooring/Berthing
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Automated mooring: a safer solution for dynamic environments
Mooring vessels using ropes is a time-tested tradition going back thousands of years. But, as the saying goes, if it ain’t broke, why fix it? “Ropes have a tendency to snap. They need to be man-handled; there’s no good way of automating the attachment of ropes for ships,” says Patrick Rosenwald, MD of Cavotec’s MoorMaster automated mooring Centre of Excellence.
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Fendercare Marine equips Serco with 36 mooring buoys
Fendercare Marine has recently completed the delivery of 36 mooring buoys to Serco under their Marine Services contract awarded to Serco by the UK Ministry of Defence. Signed in 2008, FenderCare has a 5-year LTA in place with international services provider Serco. The contract is to supply class mooring systems within the context of the Marine Services contract awarded to Serco by the UK Ministry of Defence.
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Mediterranean container port orders 24 automated mooring units in multi-million Euro deal
A major container port in the Mediterranean has placed an order for 24 MoorMaster™ MM200C automated mooring units from Cavotec, in a multi-million Euro deal.
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Tideland upgrades Bulgarian aids to navigation
Tideland Signal has supplied a range of high-performance LED-based warning lights for a major repair and maintenance project on aids to navigation along the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. The project was carried out by a local company Alfori Ltd. on behalf of the Bulgarian State, which involved the refurbishment of a number of lighthouses and shore beacons at Burgas, Nesebar, Primorsko, Rossenets, Tsarevo, Ahtopol, Kavarna and Balchik.
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TTS announce Golding and Stena Line contracts
A major Australian contract will see TTS supply a specialised linkspan serving a liquefied natural gas plant off the country’s east coast. The order for the linkspan is with civil contractor Golding for the development of a construction dock on Curtis Island outside Gladstone, north of Brisbane. Leading international ferry operator Stena Line UK, has placed an order with TTS Port Equipment AB for the manufacture and installation of a passenger gangway and semi-automatic mooring system for its Belfast terminal.
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Atlas Elektronik deliver surveillance system for Bulgarian coastline
Atlas Elektronik has completed the delivery of the coastal surveillance system, which has been ordered by the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance regarding the completion of the Bulgarian obligations towards the Schengen agreement of the European Union. The System, operated by the Border Police (Ministry of Interior), covers the entire Bulgarian coastline of more than 350 km.
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Tideland high perfomance LED lantern marks Whitehaven’s north pier
Whitehaven harbour, Cumbria, UK has installed a MaxLED 400 high-performance medium range LED-based warning light, supplied by Tideland Signal, to mark the harbour's north pier. Mounted on a former lighthouse structure dating back to 1841, the new LED lantern replaces a conventional incandescent beacon. It shows a red light with a five-second flash and has a night time visual range of 9NM.
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Minister opens Peterhead’s new £30 million berth
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond officially opened a new, £30 million deepwater berth at Peterhead Port this week. The Smith Embankment took 18 months to construct and was built in order to allow Peterhead Port Authority (PPA), which is responsible for managing and developing the port, to attract new business and target previously untapped markets.
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Trelleborg install fenders for Qatargas fast-track project
Trelleborg Marine Systems, the world’s leading supplier of fendering, mooring and berthing systems, has supplied Qatargas with three of its parallel motion fender systems for a fast-track project. The installation of the fenders was completed in just four days. Carried out with specialist oil and gas contractor, Qatar Engineering and Construction Company WLL (Q-Con), the installation included two sets of dual SCN1000 cones behind each Parallel Motion Fender Structure.
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Karara Mining orders specialised automated mooring system for Port Geraldton bulk terminal
Australian mining company Karara Mining Ltd. will implement Cavotec’s MoorMaster™ automated mooring system at their iron ore handling facility at the Port of Geraldton, Western Australia.
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OSIL launches new wireless comms system for all marine instruments
A new point-to-point wireless communications system has been launched by OSIL, developed to overcome the issues associated with traditional GSM modems and VHF/UHF radio communications.
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VisSim AS to provide Marine Coordination System for UK’s largest offshore windfarm
London Array has selected VisSim AS of Horten, Norway to provide a Marine Co-ordination System for the first 630MW phase of London Array.
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