Maritime satellite communications

Keep your maritime satcom expertise updated with our concise one day conference - at Norshipping, Oslo, June 14th.

The latest in: end user experience with VSAT, end user experience with shipboard software updates by satellite, Inmarsat's FleetBroadband, GSM services for seafarers, quasi-global Ku band VSAT services, internet via TV

SPEAKERS INCLUDE
- Henrik Lindroos, project manager, Finnlines Ship Management
- Audun Melhus, IT engineer, Solvang ASA
- Lars Brodje, managing director, Telemar Scandinavia
- Floris Slikker, managing director, Radio Holland Connect
- Piers Cunningham, head of maritime business, Inmarsat
- Pal Jensen vice president sales maritime division, CapRock
- Robert Johnson, CEO, Blue Ocean Wireless
- Victor Barendse, director, Wired Ocean

AGENDA

Chair: Paul Ashton, CIO, SpecTec

Paul Ashton is CIO of SpecTec, the world's largest maritime software company, primarily involved in deep sea shipping but with a growing business in oil and gas. Mr Ashton takes an unbiased, but very well informed, view on the international maritime satellite communications market. www.spectec.net

9.30 Integrated IP communication and VSAT.
Henrik Lindroos, project manager, Finnlines Ship Management. Using VSAT systems onboard vessels integrated with an onboard IP communications system

Finnlines Ship Management manages vessels for Finnlines, which operates 23 ro-ro vessels and 17 ro-ro / passenger vessels, on routes between Finland and Germany, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, NOrway, UK, BeNeLux, Bay of Biscay and Russia (St Petersburg). www.finnlines.com

9.55 Experience with VSAT implementations with Scandinavian shipping comanies Speaker from ShipEquip

10.20 Global Ku band VSAT.
Lars Brodje, managing director, Telemar Scandinavia.
Connexion by Boeing revisited - projects to put together a map of Ku-band coverage to make a quasi-global coverage.

Captain Lars Brodje is managing director and part owner of Telemar Scandinavia, a company in the international Telemar Group. He was previously the maritime adviser at Inmarsat, leaving to establish Satpool Sweden in 1996, a maritime satellite communications company. He is an independent expert to the European Commission (DG INFSO) and Board member at the Swedish Institute of Maritime Education. www.telemar.se

10.45 International Ku band VSAT service. Floris Slikker, managing director, Radio Holland Connect.Costs, coverage area, comparison with Connexion by Boeing, testing, reliability, availability

Radio Holland Connect is the satcom competence centre of the Radio Holland Group, the world's largest group for supply and repair of shipboard electronic equipment. Radio Holland Connect has just announced a groundbreaking service to provide quasi-worldwide satcom service to ships in Ku band VSAT antennas, which is similar to the service Connexion by Boeing was planning to provide. www.radiohollandgroup.com

11.10 BREAK

11.35 Plans for FleetBroadband.
Piers Cunningham, head of maritime business, Inmarsat - plans for FleetBroadband - costs, launch date, coverage, equipment requirements, opportunities for vendors.

Inmarsat operates the satellite communications system used by most of the world's merchant shipping fleet which also forms the backbone of global GMDSS provision. FleetBroadband is the new service from Inmarsat that will be launched in the later half of this year. FleetBroadband will provide simultaneous voice and data at speeds of up to 432 kbs. www.inmarsat.com

12.00 Experience with VSAT implementations in Norway
Pal Jensen vice president sales maritime division, CapRock
Experience with maritime VSAT in Norway 2000-2007
Examples of new fleets moving to VSAT
CapRock’s newly established maritime service; SeaAccess

Pal Jensen is vice president sales maritime division, CapRock, a VSAT company based in several global locations including Houston and Oslo. CapRock has been well established in the worldwide oil and gas industry, and is now making inroads into deep sea maritime VSAT with the SeaAccess services. Mr Jensen was previously vice president of Telenor Satellite Services. www.caprock.com

12.25 Panel discussion - how does VSAT compare with FleetBroadband?

1.00 Lunch

2.00 GSM for seafarers Via Inmarsat.
Robert Johnson, CEO, Blue Ocean Wireless Plans to provide shipping companies with shipboard GSM services at $1.25 per minute and $0.75 per text, over Inmarsat Fleet / mini-M.

Robert Johnson was recently appointed as CEO of Blue Ocean Wireless, a joint venture between shipboard GSM equipment manufacturer Altobridge and Claret Capital, to provide shipboard GSM services. He is well known in the industry as director of aviation and maritime with Inmarsat for the past 9 years. www.blueoceanwireless.com

2.25 Strategies for remotely updating and maintaining shipboard PCs Audun Melhus, IT manager, Solvang ASA
- Shore management of distribution and installation of software updates on shipboard computers
- Automatic repair of shipboard software and installation of additional computers onboard.

Solvang ASA, based in Stavanger, Norway, operates 12 gas carriers. It has a further 9 LPG newbuildings

2.50 Providing one-way broadband to ships via ship television antennas
Victor Barendse, director, Wired Ocean A fast growing market - one way satcom
What equipment you need to make it work
Costs, benefits, problems
An attractive solution for deep sea maritime?

Victor Barendse is managing director of Wired Ocean, who operate a maritime broadband communications system which enables ships to receive high speed data via a satellite television antenna and to send data via narrowband communications equipment such as Inmarsat, Globalstar or GPRS. He was previously a senior executive with both Inmarsat and ICO. www.wiredocean.com

3.15 Panel discussion chaired by Paul Ashton - what are the biggest untapped value that shipping companies can get from their satcom? Is it making life more attractive for seafarers, monitoring engines from shore or providing supported shipboard computer based training?

3.40 Close