Port of Salalah, Oman

Our engineers have successfully installed 12 MoorMaster™units at the Omani Port of Salalah ahead of the Khareef monsoon season.

With commissioning scheduled for completion this week, initial trial moorings are planned for early June.  According to Paddy Rosenwald, Managing Director, Cavotec Specimas, one of the units has however already performed a smooth mooring operation – a great achievement!

Read on for further details on the Salalah project.

We are thrilled to report that the New Zealand Parliament has commended Cavotec for our agreement with the Port Hedland Port Authority in Australia to supply 14 MoorMaster™ units – the largest ever order for our vacuum-based automated mooring technology.

Ross Robertson MP filed a Notice of Motion that appeared in the daily Parliamentary Order Paper – a way of bringing our achievements to the attention of the House.

This is indeed encouraging, and we look forward to continuing to develop and improve MoorMaster™ for applications in ports and lock systems around the world.

photo credit: China Daily

According to Air Transport World, the first A320 aircraft assembled at the Airbus final assembly facility in the Chinese port city of Tianjin, southwest of Beijing, has made its inaugural flight. This is the first A320 assembled at Tianjin and indeed the first assembled outside Europe. Cavotec supplied 18 pop-up pit systems and related materiel to service aircraft at the Tianjin plant.

Radio remote control unit

For a good overview of the modern remote control market, including input from our Microcontrol sales manager Morten Bjerkholt, take a look at this Cranes Today piece – Action at a distance.

Radio remote controls have a wide range of applications, from steering heavy industrial vehicles to controlling oil rigs from afar.

Some selected news items that follow our announcement of recent Airports orders in Turkey:

Defense File, May 12, 2009

Tech Expo World, May 12, 2009

Ground Support Worldwide, May 15, 2009

Cavotec’s Alternative Maritime Power™ (AMP™) – that allows ships to turn off their engines when in port and plug into shore-side electricity – is an example of an innovative technology that substantially reduces carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions in port areas and surrounding communities. The benefits of AMP™ are easily measurable: every vessel using AMP™ saves around one tonne of pollutants per day.

But what about out at sea? We have discovered another great example of a technological innovation that could help the shipping industry reduce its environmental impact. Singapore-based firm, Ecospec has developed and patented a system that removes carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide, and soot from vessel exhausts. The magic ingredient? Seawater. It’s a breakthrough that is attracting growing attention.