Guardian Deployed to Protect Vessels at Geraldton Port, Australia

Feb 23, 2021 | News

GUARDIAN REDUCES COSTS AND ENHANCES PROTECTION AT GERALTDON PORT The Mid West Port Authority is responsible for facilitating trade through, and the safe and efficient operation of the Port of Geraldton in West Australia.  There are 25 anchorage zones that ships are...

Guardian Solution Installed in the Straits of Mackinac, Michigan

Feb 23, 2021 | News

GUARDIAN SOLUTION INSTALLED IN THE STRAITS OF MACKINAC, MICHIGAN Vesper Marine, a leading manufacturer of innovative marine safety products, announced today it has provided its Guardian Asset Protection solution to Enbridge Inc. to protect Line 5 in Northern Michigan....

Enbridge – Pipeline Protection

Feb 15, 2021 | Customer Stories, Oil & Gas

PREVENTING ANCHOR DAMAGE TO LINE 5 Virtual Aids to Navigation (VAtoNs) and proactive messages prevent accidental damage to subsea pipeline.  Challenge Enbridge’s Line 5 travels for a distance of 4.5 miles under the Straits of Mackinac, where Lakes Michigan and Huron...

Three Groundings in Three Days!

Dec 15, 2020 | Incident

MAJOR SHIPPING CHANNEL BLOCKED Dec 2020: The Volga River entrance was repeatedly blocked in the first week of December 2020. Three times in three days a vessel ran aground as reported by Fleetmon: PORT OLYA2 was exiting the Volga, en route to Iran.  Amazingly, this...

Ship collides with platform – USD225m damage

Oct 25, 2020 | Incident

Ship collides with platform – USD225m damage Oct 2020: In the early hours of October 17, the crude oil tanker Atina was either anchored or in the process of anchoring when it drifted towards the Cox Oil Platform 58-B.  Despite being clearly lit, the tanker...