Damen Marine Components, a division of Damen Shipyards Group, offers several maneuvering systems with heavy-duty Van der Velden steering gear and long-life rudders. Damen designs and manufactures rudders, steering gear,… Read More
Products
Innovative companies are constantly coming out with new products and services to help the inland barge industry operate more safely and economically. You’ll find our coverage here.
PPG announced February 25 that its protective and marine coatings business, PPG-PMC, has introduced the PPG Asset Integrity Management (PPG AIM) system in the United States and Canada. This software-based… Read More
MobileOps Inc. recently announced a major upgrade to its robust operations platform known as Form Builder. With Form Builder, customers can easily create unique form-based processes all within MobileOps. The… Read More
This month, Carlisle & Finch will begin shipping 10-, 12-, 15- and 19-inch LED searchlights to the inland river industry. The searchlight uses an in-house electronic modular design, combined with… Read More
Working on a ship, barge, platform or marine terminal is hazardous enough without contending with poor lighting. Hella Marine’s new RokLUME 280 and 380 LED floodlights are designed to provide… Read More
Caterpillar Marine has introduced the Advanced Variable Drive (AVD), a fully-integrated hydro-mechanical propulsion system that can be customized for any engine application, large or small, including dredges, auxiliary vessels and… Read More
For mariners tired of wearing stiff foam-style personal flotation devices (PFDs) that are hot and uncomfortable, Datrex, the Kinder, La.-based manufacturer of marine and emergency equipment, has a new option… Read More
Hydraulic steering systems and heavy seas can place enormous loads on a vessel’s rudder linkage, especially tiller arms and jockey bars. A bearing failure here means a loss of steerage,… Read More
Continuing its pursuit of making “no boots on the barge” a reality, the marine division of CIS (Contractors & Industrial Supply Company Inc.) has announced a new product, called DraftEye… Read More
For more than 70 years, Furuno has been manufacturing marine electronics that improve life on the water, from navigation and fishing aids to radars and radios. Over the past year,… Read More
