Our radio remote controls (RRC) are used in some of the harshest environments in the world. Now, one of our RRC units is headed to the Antartic, where it will be used with to operate a specialised crane that launches and recovers a survey vessel.
Cavotec's radio remote control (RRC) experts - Cavotec Micro-control - recently took part in a highly successful ONS2012, one of the offshore energy industry's largest exhibitions. Held in Stravanger, Norway, between August 28 and 30, the event attracted some 50,000 attendees. Here's a brief overview of Cavotec's presence at the show.
Interislander, operator of one of the world's most beautiful ferry routes - between North and South Island in New Zealand - is currently celebrating its 50th year of operation. The service was also the very first in the world to introduce Cavotec's automated mooring system MoorMaster™.
Cavotec's uniquely innovative technology for mooring for ships, MoorMaster™, is becoming increasingly widely adopted. This press release provides details of the most recent application for the technology: a container handling application on the Mediterranean Sea; the second of its kind there. MoorMaster™ now serves ferry, bulk handling, Ro-Ro, container and lock applications worldwide.
Following yesterday's release of our interim report, today we have news of an important order on the US market for our advanced, explosion proof radio remote control units for a niche onshore energy application.
The decisive role one of Cavotec's benchmark technologies, Alternative Maritime Power, plays in improving air quality in ports and surrounding communities was highlighted recently as the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach announced their Clean Air Action Awards.
Following news in May that the US ports of Oakland and Long Beach ordered a large number of our innovative shore power systems, here is a press release detailing the most recent official opening of Cavotec AMP systems at two Stena Line ferry berths in Hoek van Holland in The Netherlands.
Alternative Maritime Power, one of our signature technologies, looks set to be an integral element of one of several measures included by the Port of Los Angeles in the latest round of the Port's container handling "Pier 300" expansion programme.
The Port of Long Beach and the Port of Oakland have selected Cavotec's innovative Alternative Maritime Power systems for installation at multiple berths ensuring safe, easy and quick connection to grid-generated electrical power. This enables ships to switch of their engines while docked thus making a substantial improvement to air quality in and around these ports.
Cavotec has completed the delivery of a number of industrial radio remote control (RRC) systems that will be sued on the world’s largest deep water drilling ship, the Dalian Developer.
Luciano Corbetta, Cavotec Group Market Unit Manager Port & Maritime, is a guest speaker at this year’s Shoreside Power Conference, hosted and organised by Venezia Terminal Passeggeri and Ashcroft & Associates, to be held on April 26 at Marittima Terminal 103 in Venice.
The first award of its kind from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acknowledges ‘businesses and organizations that have shown outstanding leadership in response to climate change’.
Global engineering group and airport systems integrator Cavotec has won an order to supply advanced ground support equipment for the "Gateway to West Africa", Ghana's Kotoka International Airport (KIA).
Global engineering group Cavotec published its 4Q11 report this morning with total revenues up 50.8 per cent compared to 2010, coming in at EUR 60.2 million.
Cavotec has won three orders for cable reel systems by industrial equipment manufacturer ZPMC for port operators DP World and Patrick Terminals that will power ship-to-shore cranes at applications in Australia, Brazil and the UK.
The Port Equipment Manufacturers Association (PEMA) has announced that six new companies have joined the organisation, taking its total membership to 60. The new members are APM Terminals Crane & Engineering Services, TMEIC Corporation, Banner Engineering Europe, Gaussin, Phoenix Products and Moffatt & Nichol.
Cavotec's automated mooring system, MoorMaster, recently won the International Bulk Journal's award for safety in bulk handling, the latest in a series of awards for the innovative technology.
Cavotec has completed work on the development of a unique marine propulsion system that, in conjunction with an innovative ship design, promises to improve fuel consumption by up to 25 per cent.
Cavotec is delighted to hear that the Port of Gothenburg, one of the Group's long-term partners on shore power technologies for ships, has won the prestigious Energy Globe Awards 2011 for its shore power initiatives and their contribution to improving air quality in and around the Port. Cavotec and the Port of Gothenburg have worked together closely on shore power since the 1980s.
The Port of Los Angeles has developed a Carbon Calculator for ports to estimate greenhouse gas levels from their operations and explore reduction strategies. The neighbouring Port of Long Beach, meanwhile, has unveiled its latest shore power installation in its continued bid to reduce port-wide emissions.
