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Vuyk Engineering Rotterdam orders OCTOPUS
including Seaway for Windows 5.1. The shallow-water option, the
user-friendliness and the modular design of the software were important
criteria for Vuyk's Marine Operations department. |
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November 24, 2003
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The Belgian company Jan de Nul N.V awards Amarcon the contract to develop a
new Cutter Dredger Simulator. Jan de Nul’s fleet includes two of the world’s
biggest cutter suction dredgers. Soon also the world’s biggest rock cutter
dredger “J.F.J. de Nul” will be ready for operation. Amarcon will carry out
the project in close co-operation with the client and the University of
Gent. |
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October 10, 2003
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Meteo Consult and Amarcon co-operate in the development of the new
generation SPOS weather routing package. As part of that development,
components of the OCTOPUS-Decision Support System (DSS) are seamlessly
integrated in SPOS. Learn more about OCTOPUS-DSS, SPOS and our joint
services at the Meteo Consult boot on the
Marine Weather Conference 14th and
15th October 2003 (Inmarsat Conference Building, London). |
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October 7, 2003
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OCTOPUS has been extended with a new functionality:
Polar Diagrams. The
results of seakeeping analyses carried out in OCTOPUS (this includes Seaway
for WINDOWS) can now be presented in various illustrative formats, such as
lines, smooth areas and above/below areas. Operability areas can be
presented considering different criteria at the same time.
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September 12, 2003
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GL’s SRA-system which is build around AMARCON’s OCTOPUS software, has been
installed onboard C/V New York Express, a panamax container carrier, owned
and operated by Costamare Shipping Company and chartered by Hapag Lloyd. The contract was made between Germanischer Lloyd
and the owner; Amarcon delivers to Germanischer Lloyd. The system features
interfaces with the onboard loading computer, GPS, gyro-compass, a wave
radar and the SPOS weather forecast system. |
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May 20, 2003
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Release of Seaway for Windows as a module in OCTOPUS. The new release was
sent out to the old Seaway users and two new users in Spain and Romania.
Info: see our Seaway web page.
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April 24, 2003
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Presentation of GL’s Shipboard Routing Assistance system (SRA) at the RINA
conference for Container Ship Design and Operation. Amarcon’s OCTOPUS
software is the heart and front-end view of this system. |
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