Seaway as an AMARCON-product (December 2002)
AMARCON has made an agreement with Johan Journée covering sales, development, maintenance and support of Seaway as an AMARCON-product. Seaway will be upgraded to a Windows program and will be integrated in our own OCTOPUS toolbox. We will do this in close co-operation with Johan Journée and the Delft University of Technology. More details about the agreement and future Seaway releases are given on our dedicated Seaway web page.
Costamare Shipping Company S.A. uses Octopus (December 2002)
The greek shipowner Costamare Shipping Company S.A. started to use the OCTOPUS Decision Support System in the main office as a training tool for the crew. The software was delivered by Amarcon to Germanischer Lloyd, who has the contract with the ship owner. Costamare Shipping Company S.A. is one of the major Greek ship owners operating container line services for Maersk Sealand, MSC and APL amongst others.
Installation of OCTOPUS Decision Support System for Germanischer Lloyd (August 2002)
In June 2002, Germanischer Lloyd ordered an OCTOPUS Decision Support System to be the heart and frond-end view of an intelligent Hull Response Monitoring System. Only five weeks later, the OCTOPUS-system was installed on board a Post-Panamax container carrier. The system converts wave information obtained from a WAVEX wave radar and the SPOS weather forecast and routing system into ship responses. This first installation is an important step in the implementation of a new generation intelligent monitoring and routing tools for ships in operation.
AMARCON joins the Moss Maritime/ENI-Saipem project (June 2002)
AMARCON joins the Moss Maritime/ENI-Saipem project team responsible for a feasibility study of a LNG FSU system for the Mediterranean Sea. For this purpose a side-by-side analysis of the FSU and a shuttle tanker is performed by AMARCON, using the DNV SESAM software package (WADAM/WAMIT n-body) combined with the NTNU SIMO software package. The project is carried out in the Moss Maritime offices at Lysaker.
AMARCON joins the Moss Maritime project team (May 2002)
AMARCON joins the Moss Maritime project team responsible for a feasibility study of a new LNG vessel design. For this purpose a wave load analysis of the LNG carrier design will be performed by AMARCON using the DNV 3D-forward speed seakeeping code WASIM. The project is carried out in the Moss Maritime offices at Lysaker.
Imtech Marine & Offshore selects AMARCON?s OCTOPUS software (May 2002)
Imtech Marine & Offshore selects AMARCON?s OCTOPUS software package for integration in the UniMACS 3000 integrated bridge, Imtech?s state-of-the-art Digital Integrated Ship Management Concept. The main system design objectives are increased safety and reduction of personnel. At the same time, optimum use can be made of sensor information, during normal operation and in case of incident investigation. Simulation capabilities offer efficient route planning and on-board training.
Imtech?s UniMACS 3000 comprises the following modular components:
- RADAR 3500 (PC-based ARPA Radar)
- ECDIS 3500 (Electronic Chart Display & Information System)
- CONNING 3500 (Integrated Navigation Information)
- NAVPILOT3500 (Autopilot)
- RICOM 3500 (Alarm, Monitoring & Control)
- DPT3500 (Dynamic Positioning & Dynamic Tracking System)
- VDR3500 (Voyage Data Recorder and Data Logging Systems)
- VHF/UHF/SATCOM/GMDSS Communication Systems
- NETCAM 3500 (Integrated CCTV System)
With this agreement between Imtech Marine & Offshore and AMARCON, the functionality of Imtech?s UniMACS 3000 will be further extended (ship response monitoring and on-board operational decision support using weather and wave information, ship-specific seakeeping characteristics and operational conditions and limitations).
