Right now the US coast off the Mexican Gulf is right is threatened by oil pollution. Everyday since the oil rig exploded, more than 800 000 liters are leaking off the coast of Louisiana. Currently, Ro-Clean Desmi, one of the worlds leading manufacturers of oil skimmer systems, is using our radio remote controls. This makes skimming of large areas possible, efficient and safe.
Working closely with Ro-Clean Desmi, Cavotec Danmark andCavotec MC in Abensberg ensured that the necessary remote control (a special MC 3-5 made to withstand ultra harsh offshore-environments) was made available within a very short period of time.
Watch a short video clip about oil response equipment here and keep your eyes peeled for a Cavotec RRC in use at around 2:50.
The Turanor, the world's largest solar-powered yacht. Photo credit: PlanetSolar
We like to follow environmentally friendly innovations on this blog and now two of our favorites (Plastiki, the boat made of plastic bottles that is sailing around the world, and Solar Impulse, a solar-powered airplane) have seemingly merged into a new project we picked up the other day on CNN. PlanetSolar is behind the Turanor – the world’s largest solar-powered yacht that plans to sail around the world.
As CNN describes, the Turanor is as heavy as a whale, 30 meters long, and adorned with 536 square-meters of photovoltaic panels – enough to cover over two tennis courts – which will be used to power the 50,000 kilometre journey with nothing but energy from the sun. Departing from the Mediterranean Sea, Turanor will travel across the Atlantic and through the Panama Canal, before crossing the Pacific and Indian oceans and sailing down the Suez Canal.
“This is not just an adventure story,” skipper Raphael Domjan told CNN. “We want to show the world that we have the technology right now to change how we do things.”
In further success for our automated mooring system, MoorMaster™, we will install eight vacuum-mooring units for Hammersley Iron Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Anglo-Australian mining group Rio Tinto, at the Dampier Fuel Wharf, located on the eastern end of the Parker Point ore wharf, in the Port of Dampier, Western Australia. Located some 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) north of Perth, Dampier Port consists of the Parker Point facility and the East Intercourse Island facility.
We will manufacture and install eight MoorMaster™ MM200D units at Hammersley Iron’s Dampier Fuel Wharf at the Parker Point facility, in the Port of Dampier. The units will be rail-mounted and integrated into the face of the berth. Each unit will have a capacity of 20 tonnes, and will be able to complete vessel mooring in less than 30 seconds and disengage in less than 10 seconds.
The Dampier fuelling wharf project will be our second major MoorMaster™ installation in Western Australia. In April 2009, Cavotec won a contract to supply 14 MM200B (Bulk) units to the nearby Port Hedland Port Authority’s iron ore facility.
Watch the clip below for a look at the MoorMaster™ (in this case at the St. Lawrence Seaway) in action:
One of our favorite new sites is http://www.ops.wpci.nl/index.php. The site was established by the World Ports Climate Initiative’s (WPCI) Onshore Power Supply (OPS) working group in order to provide a wealth of practical information about OPS for seagoing vessels. By replacing onboard-generated power from diesel auxiliary engines with electricity generated onshore, air quality in ports and port cities will improve, due to reduced air pollutants, noise and carbon dioxide.
