•      After SMM, roll on MARITIMA

If you want to visit us to maritima show,

click here www.salonmaritima.com
The Admission for the show is free if you register in advance

First of all, a big thank you to everyone who came to visit us on the Interprofession du Port de Concarneau stand at the SMM trade fair in Hamburg. Some very worthwhile contacts were made during the trade fair and have now been passed on to the companies in the network. IPC is very satisfied with the outcome of its first participation in a foreign trade faire. Let's hope that some of the opportunities brought back from Hamburg will soon be in evidence in Concarneau!

Now, the next meeting is

Maritima trade fair, the French maritime professional trade fair

that will take place from 10 to 13 December 2008

in Paris at the Parc des Expositions, Porte de Versailles.

15 companies will on the IPC stand: Barillec, Bopp, Bretagne Hydraulique, Chantiers Piriou, Cotten, Le Gall Electricité, Marinelec Technologies, Mécaconcepts, Ouest Sécurité Marine, Paumier, Piriou Naval Services, Saen Peinture, Semim, Siecmi, Yannick Le Maguer & Associés.

Its latest exercise was an ORSEC contingency plan in La Rochelle on 16 October 2008, which involved several hundred people. This demonstration exercise took place with the participation of the Charente-maritime local authority, the CROSS (Sea rescue coordination), the Affaires Maritimes (French Department of maritime affairs), the French Navy, the Sécurité Civile (French emergency services), the SNSM (lifeboat service), the SAMU (emergency ambulance service) and the INTER-ILES passenger ferries.

OUEST SECURITE MARINE was recently formed by the merger of several Atlantic coast Safety Centres, from Finistère to Vendée.

This business is specialised in the maintenance and sale of Bombard, Zodiac and RFD liferafts (for up to 150 persons), distress beacons, ocean-survival suits and lifejackets, pyrotechnics, navigation compasses, inflatables and other nautical equipment.
OUEST SECURITE MARINE is also approved for installing and inspecting emergency evacuation systems for persons on board ships.

Heavily involved in the improvement of safety equipment, Ouest Sécurité Marine regularly takes part in demonstrations of equipment or safety exercises with Administrations and shipowners.

Ouest Sécurité Marine has several workshops located in Pont l'Abbé, La Turballe, St Gilles Croix de Vie and Les Sables d'Olonne. It works for the fishing industry, merchant and military navies, shipyards, passenger ships and ferries, research vessels and Government bodies

Email : p.gonichon@ouestsecuritemarine.com

After the launch of Sun Tenareze in 2003, this will be the second composite catamaran built by JFA. - Delivery planned during 2010.

In the last newsletter, we spoke about a new contract that had been won by JFA to build a motor yacht 43 metres in length.

This time, we are pleased to announce of latest project: the construction of a giant catamaran.

Why giant? Because it is 110 feet long, (33.50 metres), which makes it the 3rd biggest cruising catamaran in construction in the world.
Van Peteghem Lauriot Prévost (VPLP), the world leader in multihull architecture, designed this 110’ craft. Built in epoxy carbon, this yacht will offer comfort and high performance under sail, thanks to its spacious layout and a sail plan inspired by racing trimarans. This luxurious cruise catamaran is designed to accommodate 8 guests and 6 crew members.

Thanks to this new project, the JFA shipyard has once again shown its versatility in both sail and motor propelled vessels.

www.jfa-yachts.com

The ALTOR 8 combined with the DVES flood detector has successfully passed all the mechanical environment and EMC tests in laboratories approved by the classification companies and has obtained approval from BUREAU VERITAS on behalf of the French Merchant Navy.
More than 80 vessels already have this equipment.

Specialised in watch control, MARINELEC has already fitted several hundred ships with its LYNX V2 and is currently developing a product that meets the new regulation. This product will be shown at the Maritima trade faire in December.

Section 361 "Flood detection devices and alarms" in the French Department of Maritime Affairs regulations: warning, only 8 months left to comply with the law

The Marinelec Technologies ALTOR 8 alarm unit and DVES detectors meet this new flood detection regulation.
Since January 2007, a flood detection device and alarm is mandatory on board new fishing vessels less than 24 metres in length in France. This regulation will apply to all fishing vessels from 1st June 2009.
Design, construction and installation of this device must satisfy IEC standards 90092-201, 90092-504 and particularly IEC standards 60945 and 60529. The device must also have MMF type approval.

Section 212 "Bridge and engine room watch" in the French Department of Maritime Affairs regulations: warning, only 11 months to go until you have to fit a bridge watch system

The MARINELEC Technologies LYNX V2 watch control system meets this new regulation which, from October 2009, makes a bridge watch system mandatory on new fishing vessels in France that will be at sea for a duration greater than or equal to 24 hours. (more details…)
In the past few years, accidents due to fatigue and watchkeeping problems have increased amongst our professional fishermen. This new regulation will apply to fishing vessels exceeding 24 metres in length. This watch control system must comply with resolution MSC.128(75) concerning the BNWAS (Bridge Navigation Watch Alarm System) and must have obtained MMF approval (granted by BUREAU VERITAS)

www.marinelec.com

PIRIOU group has a very lively schedule this November. The shipyard will soon be launching the 7th and 8th harbour tugs build for the Spanish Boluda group: the VB Crau and the VB Esterel, last in the series of eight sisterships.

November is also the month when PIRIOU receives the hull for the 90m tuna purse seiner it is building for the Reunion island shipowner SAPMER. This hull will arrive from Poland in a few days. Altogether PIRIOU will be building 3 tuna purse seiners of this type. The other 2 vessels will be built at SEAS, the PIRIOU group subsidiary located in Vietnam.

Concerning ship repairs, the ATALANTE, IFREMER's 84 m oceanographical ship, will arrive in Concarneau on 16/11/08 for modernisation work halfway through its service life (contract won by PIRIOU NAVAL SERVICES, the group's ship repair subsidiary). Its stay in dry dock is scheduled from the start of December 2008 until mid February 2009.

www.piriou.com