Digital Ship newsletter subscriber version July 7, 2002 Inside this issue SOFTWARE COMMUNICATIONS AND E-BUSINESS * Carnival Cruise Line purchases Manpower Software * Anders Utkilens Rederi tanker company uses SIS software * New Suppliers for ShipServ * Dial sees 10 per cent growth sending telex to ships * Tribon.com upgrades to Release 4.0 * AXS Marine tie up with UMS messaging system * Israeli Inmarsat LESO starts operations MARITIME OPERATIONS * STN Atlas to design VTS facilities for Kuwait refinery * Transas demonstrates search and rescue technology to NATO * KMSS launches Windows versions of its engine and cargo simulators * CORETEC president wins entrepreneur award * Comrod launches AIS antenna * Swedish Club licenses Wallem bridge training centre in Karachi MARITIME SUPPLY CHAINS * 500 Hamburg shippers and forwarders use INTTRA via DAKOSY * Savi makes container security suggestions * Dole Food Company uses Tideworks container terminal management software __________ ****** Software, communications and e-business ****** Carnival Cruise Line purchases Manpower Software http://www.manpowersoftware.com Carnival Cruise Line, parent of Cunard and Seabourn, has purchased crew manning software from UK maritime software company Manpower Software, in a deal worth $0.6m. Cunard Line and The Yachts of Seabourn will use the Manpower MAPS crew manning software to plan allocation, travel and certification of crew. It will replace manual planning systems. It was selected in trials over four rival planning packages. The software will be used onboard Cunard's Queen Mary 2, which will be launched in 2003, described as the "longest, widest, tallest and most expensive ocean liner ever built." Cunard will use the software to manage the process of expanding its crew so it can staff the new vessel to a high standard without compromising staff skill levels on other vessels. The Yachts of Seaborn, which operates smaller luxury 204 berth yachts, will be using the software to manage its service personnel. __________ Anders Utkilens Rederi tanker company uses SIS software http://www.sisys.com Norwegian chemical tanker operator Anders Utkilens Rederi (AUR) will be implementing the Star Information Systems (SIS) software Star Event and Star Document onboard 16 of its ships. The Star Event software can be used for reporting events such as incidents, near misses, guarantees and non-conformities. The Star Document software handles onboard documents and reports including ISM procedures, drawings, pictures, checklists, crew, accounting and operations. Both systems run over Microsoft Excel. "SE and SD are cost-efficient and offer immediate use by our officers who are already accustomed to Windows and Excel. They don't have to learn another system," says AUR. __________ New Suppliers for ShipServ http://www.shipserv.com Maritime ship supply management company ShipServ has signed up suppliers Kelvin Hughes (charts and navigation systems), Hamworthy KSE (waste treatment, pumps and compressors) and Aalborg Industries (boilers). ShipServ is currently about three starter packs to suppliers every week. __________ Dial sees 10 per cent growth sending telex to ships http://www.dial.ltd.uk Dial Ltd, based in London, UK, is currently seeing 10 per cent growth in its business carrying telex traffic to ships generated from e-mails. The company currently has over 1000 customers, including ship owners, managers, agents, suppliers, chandlers, radar services, accounting authorities, shipbrokers and weather stations. Virtually all ships still have telex machines onboard, but very few land offices do now, and if they do have telex machines they are normally for the sole purpose of communicating with ships. Dial provides a service to enable telexes to ships to be generated by normal e-mails from e-mail software everybody already has. An e-mail is sent from Outlook, or other e-mail software, to a special e-mail address at Dial, from where it is immediately telexed to the ship. The users require no special software. The sender receives a bill for all telexes at the end of the month. Dial bases a part of its unique business proposition on its low price telex, charging just GBP 1.89 a minute ($2.69), no matter whether the telex is sent by Inmarsat -A, -B, or -C. Most of the traffic is in fact carried over Inmarsat -C at data rates, Dial says, of about 70 words a minute. This includes all set-up and installation costs, with no minimum data send; the billing is in 6-second increments. There are possibilities for rate reduction for higher volume customers. The service is still viable for larger volume customers; the UK Meteorological Office, for example, uses Dial to send its telexed weather reports to ships. The company employs only 10 staff, and so its overhead is very low. __________ Tribon.com upgrades to Release 4.0 http://www.tribon.com Tribon.com, the online parts database for shipbuilding, has upgraded to version 4.0. The new release has improved technical enquiry functions, a comprehensive supplier directory and better market exposure for system suppliers. It is now easier for suppliers to present all their parts to shipyards so they are easy to search and find. __________ AXS Marine tie up with UMS messaging system http://www.axsmarine.com AXS Marine, which operates an online communications tool for shipbrokers, has tied up with UMS (Unified Messaging System); a company based in Norway and develops communications software. The two companies, working together, have software to help characterise and prioritise incoming messages. Users of the system can also quote positions and tonnage to each other without actually sending e-mail. __________ Israeli LESO starts operations http://www.bezeq.com Station Seven Eleven, the Israeli Inmarsat land earth station, has started operating in full global coverage, with all Inmarsat services. __________ **** MARITIME OPERATIONS **** STN Atlas to design VTS facilities for Kuwait refinery http://www.stn-atlas.de Bremen maritime electronics company STN Atlas has been awarded a contract for design and installation of VTS facilities in Mina Al Ahmadi oil refinery, Kuwait National Petroleum Company. The VTS system is part of an integrated ship approach system with berthing, mooring, environmental monitoring and communications, as part of a major civil engineering project carried out by Hyundai Engineering and Construction of South Korea. The approach system will ensure safe transit and berthing of oil tankers at the refinery, with tankers coming in from 15 nautical miles. Onboard pilots have laptop computers displaying the ship's position, VTS images and graphic displays of the docking approach with speeds relative to bow and stern. The laptops are connected by radio to a main port control centre. __________ Transas demonstrates search and rescue technology to NATO http://www.transas.com Maritime software company Transas reports that it demonstrated its search and rescue technology to a delegation of NATO officers during a recent seminar in St Petersburg. Transas demonstrated its search and rescue route planning capabilities, which allow routes to be created in accordance with schemes presented by the international search and rescue convention, with expanding square, parallel track and sector search systems, integrating tide and weather forecast data and expected drift due to water currents. These are all incorporated into the Transas Navi Sailor electronic chart display system. The Transas simulators can also be used for training ship handling on fast craft and specialist rescue ships, with training under rain, snow and fog. __________ KMSS launches Windows versions of its engine and cargo simulators http://www.kmss.no Kongsberg Maritime Ship Systems has launched Windows versions of its engine and cargo simulators. The Windows environment makes it easier to connect simulators together, since most training schools have people competent in Windows. This means that it is easier to set up interaction between student and teacher, and chat sessions between students. In a separate deal, KMSS won a contract to supply Fire Detection Systems for four ships run by Royal Caribbean Cruises. Each ship will be fitted with 4500 detectors and 1000 control and indication interface units. Each ship cabin will have a buzzer fitted. __________ CORETEC president wins entrepreneur award http://www.coretec.nf.net Mona El-Tahan, president of Newfoundland maritime software company CORETEC, has been awarded "Canada's leading woman high tech entrepreneur" in an award scheme organised by the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance. CORETEC creates marine navigational aids to improve the safety and cost-effectiveness of marine transportation. Products include the Advanced Ship Autopilot System, which uses artificial intelligence together with ship manoeuvring theory to combine inputs including ship heading, wind speed and runner angle. __________ Comrod launches AIS antenna http://www.comrod.com Comrod of Norway has launched an antenna for automatic identification systems (AIS). It combines a VHF transmitting antenna with a GPS receiving antenna. __________ Swedish Club licenses Wallem bridge training centre in Karachi www.swedishclub.com Maritime insurance organisation Swedish Club has licensed the Wallem maritime training centre in Karachi, Pakistan, for Bridge Resource Management (BRM) training. Wallem now operates three bridge resource management facilities licensed by the club, with the others in Moscow and Mumbai. The course covers inter personal communication skills and promoting behaviour which contributes to safety at sea. The Karachi courses will be managed by Captain Syed Mahmud Raza Rizvi, who recently trained as a Workshop Leader at the SAS Flight Academy, Stockholm? __________ ***** MARITIME SUPPLY CHAINS ***** 500 Hamburg shippers and forwarders use INTTRA via DAKOSY http://www.inttra.com DAKOSY, a portal for the port of Hamburg, will be using booking management services through the INTTRA portal. DAKOSY is used by 400 freight forwarders, 100 shippers and 36 port service providers and authorities; INTTRA is used by shipping lines Alianca, ANL, CMA CGM, Columbus Line, Crowley American, DAL, Hamburg Süd, Hapag-Lloyd, Kühne and Nagel, Maersk Sealand, MSC, NYK, P&O Nedlloyd, Safmarine Container Lines and UASC. By linking the two system together, DAKOSY can offer its members functionality to make bookings with shipping lines and confirm them; it can also provide them with container status and tracking information. __________ Savi makes container security suggestions http://www.savi.com US company Savi, which develops computer systems to improve the security of container transportation, made the following suggestions to the US Senate for how container shipping security can be improved. * developing auditable security standards for maintaining secure loading docks and ports * outfit containers with mechanical and/or electronic seals * establishing integrated communication systems to track containers throughout the global supply chain * transmit of tracking data in accessible formats to appropriate Federal agencies * Develop secure trading lanes that ensure maritime and container security from point of origin to point of destination * establishment of new requirements that pertain to all supply chain participants to allow Federal agencies sufficient information on the contents of each containers and its expected journey. __________ Dole Food Company uses Tideworks container terminal management software http://www.tideworks.com Dole Food Company, which operates 11 container terminals in North and South America and claims to be world's largest producer and marketer of high-quality fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and fresh-cut flowers, will use Tideworks Technology terminal management systems. Deployment will be completed by the fourth quarter this year. __________ DIGITAL SHIP LTD 213 Marsh Wall London E14 9FJ, UK http://www.thedigitalship.com