Palfinger Equipment for Ocean Infinity's Robotic Vessel Fleet
Palfinger, an Austrian manufacturer of hydraulic lifting, loading, and handling systems for marine applications, has won a contract to deliver equipment for Ocean Infinity's fleet of robotic vessels to be built by VARD.Ocean Infinity, a U.S.-based marine survey, and robotics company in February 2020 said it would build the world's largest fleet of unmanned surface vessels - the Armada, "to serve a wide range of industries by being fully equipped to perform a multiplicity of offshore data acquisition and intervention operations down to a depth of 6,000 meters." It then in November
OSV Powers Up for Deepwater Efficiency the Island Offshore Way
;Marine TechnologyRadios SailorAIS FurunoGPS FurunoGMDSS SailorSatCom MarlinkMooring equipment Konsgberg winchesFire extinguishing systems Danfoss SemcoFire detection system ConsiliumHeat exchangers Alfa Laval NordicLifeboats Harding Safety/Palfinger MarineLiferafts Viking Safety EquipmentCoatings Akzo NobelBWMS OptimarinClass DNV+1A1, Offshore Service Vessel+ AHTS, SPS, NAUTT-OSV (A), ICE 1A*, EO, DYNPOS AUTR, CLEAN DESIGN, DEICE, COMF-V(3), T-MON, BIS, DK(+), HL (p) OILREC, LFL*, COMF-C(3)Cargo deck area1,200 sq. m
Palfinger Wins Deck Equipment Package
Palfinger Marine signed a contract with Turkish shipyard Cemre to supply a deck equipment package to a Havyard 832 MPV vessel being built for Esvagt. The package from Palfinger consists of cranes, winches and offshore equipment. The MPV will measure 81.9 x 17.16 m, with a deck area of 620 sq. m., a speed of 15 knots and a bollard pull of 100 tons. The complete winches and offshore equipment package includes: • two windlass winches with chain stoppers • two mooring winches • two 10 t tugger winches • three 30 t tugger winches • three 10 t capstans
Palfinger Cranes Ordered for Unmanned Platform
PALFINGER MARINE has been awarded a contract from Heerema Fabrication Group in Zwijndrecht for delivery of two cranes for an unmanned platform. The platform will be operated by Statoil at Oseberg Vestflanken 2, and is an unmanned and remote-controlled wellhead platform with ten well slots. A jack-up drilling rig, Cat-J, will be employed to perform the drilling activity. This project is expected to mark a new phase in the North Sea field developments where traditional subsea infrastructure can be replaced by unmanned wellhead platforms (UWP). This new crane design is developed for projects
Maritime Consolidation: Palfinger Aims to Acquire Harding
As maritime markets continue to struggle, merger and acquisition activity should heat up. Today, Austria's Palfinger Group announced that it intends to acquire 100% of the shares in Herkules Harding Holding AS and thus, the globally operating Harding Group. The seller is the Norwegian private equity fund Herkules. Harding is a leading suppliers of lifesaving equipment and lifecycle services for maritime installations and ships. Through this acquisition, PALFINGER will add new products and an international service network to its marine business. Subject to the positive outcome of the due diligence
PALFINGER Unites All Products into One Brand
PALFINGER NED-DECK, PALFINGER-DREGGEN and Norwegian Deck Machinery (NDM) are now fully integrated into PALFINGER MARINE. In the past years, PALFINGER MARINE has been increasing its footprint in the maritime industry through organic growth and acquisitions – fulfilling the strategy to become a complete supplier of deck equipment and handling solutions. The extensive product portfolio now includes Marine Cranes, Offshore Cranes (PALFINGER DREGGEN), Davit Systems (PALFINGER NED–DECK), Boats, Winches and Offshore Equipment (NDM) and Wind Cranes. Full integration of the
New Launches, Demonstrations Set for Seawork
delivered from the likes of Cygnus Instruments and Tritex. Returning again to Seawork this year is the three-day conference program. Sponsored by Peters & May, the Seawork Conference is hosted by Rolls Royce, MOD, Harken, SOREC, UK Marine & Coastguard Agency (MCA), Tuco Group, Palfinger, the National Workboat Association, National Oceanography Centre (NOC), CTruk, Southampton University and The Carbon Trust. The conference will include a range of topical seminars which will be held on-site at Seawork International for the duration of the exhibition. Topics include
d’ROP Bibby’ Hydromap’s Custom-built ROV
.m./day Fuel Consumption, DP 1.8 cu.m./day Generators 2 x Scania DI13-074M Tank capacity, gas oil 24 cu. m. Tank capacity, fresh water 8 cu. m. Tank capacity, water maker 2 cu. m./day Crane Palfinger Max. lift 5450kg @ 4.2m Moonpool 2.05 x 2.3m A-Frame Hydrualic 8000kg SWL with 6.5m deck clearance Sonar winch MacArtney Cormac 4 Radar, AID, Echosounder, Navtex, Satcom Furuno Autopilot
Wind Farm Vessel Named
; enhanced bow fendering system supplied by Manuplas, intelligent Fender System; a vessel impact and thrust load sensing and verification system developed by James Fisher group company Strainstall; VMMS system that reports on actual motions experienced by vessel and crew in real time; and a Palfinger Deck Crane to be used for ROV work and offshore equipment load/offload. After taking delivery of the first of type SMV 24 vessel from Supacat on April 14, 2014, Dart Fisher entered service on charter two days later. (As published in the March 2015 edition of Marine Technology Reporter - http://www
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