December 23, 2002
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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.
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December 20, 2002
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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. |
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| August 5, 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. |
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| June 17, 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. |
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| May 13, 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. |
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May 1, 2002
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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).
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