Multi-award-winning specialist marine electronics company, Actisense, has confirmed a sponsorship deal with Olympic hopeful Sam Whaley in his bid for sailing gold in 2020. Actisense, the specialist marine electronics company based in Poole, have just announced their sponsorship of young Olympic sailing hopeful, Sam Whaley. Sam, aged 21, approached the multiaward- winning company to support him in his bid for Olympic sailing gold in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Sam is from Swan

Damen Shipyards Group is celebrating the success of Multraship and its innovation arm Novatug in winning the Maritime KVNR Shipping award 2018. Working with a number of industry partners they developed the ground-breaking Carrousel RAVE Tug (CRT) design that is safer, stronger and more manoeuvrable for its size than any equivalent vessel operating today. Two vessels were built at Damen Maaskant Shipyards Stellendam using hulls fabricated in Germany, and were delivered in Febr

mTrack is an AHC controller with integrated MRU and all the tools you need to make it work with your winch or crane. mTrack makes it possible to design affordable AHC solutions for all winches and cranes that are used for subsea operations. SHORT TIME TO MARKET mTrack is an Active Heave Compensation controller that can be used with both new and existing winches. The flexibility of the controller makes it fast and easy to integrate with any winch or crane control system, and i

Thuraya Telecommunications Company, a subsidiary of the Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat), today announced that the world’s first satellite smartphone, the Thuraya X5-Touch would be available for commercial distribution in less than a month. An industry first, the Thuraya X5-Touch runs on the Android Operating System and has a 5.2” full HD touchscreen. It targets users who frequently move in and out of terrestrial coverage across a range of market sectors inclu

A 20t capacity load cell, manufactured by Straightpoint (SP) in 1994, has been returned to Holyhead Marine Services, of North Wales, UK having completed its latest inspection and calibration. The Load Link is the latest in a series of historical force measurement devices to pass through SP’s inhouse testing facility recently. In order to maintain the accuracy and function of a lifting load / force measurement product, be it SP-branded or otherwise, scheduled calibration and m