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4th
annual Digital Ship London conference
Improving safety, security and efficiency in ship operations
Inmarsat conference centre
London, November 4-6 2003
99 City Road, London, EC1Y 1AX- Near Old Street Underground station
Software, internet, databases, communications, navigation and
security electronics, training, best practise case studies
In association with AMMITEC, the Association of Maritime Managers
of Information Technology and Communications
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EXHIBITORS INCLUDE
DELEGATES FROM Boeing - Chevron Texaco - CLS Argos - Rydex - Satpool -
Heidenreich Marine - Inchcape - Amber - MUSC - Spanish Maritime Safety Agency
- UK Hydrographic Office - Meridian Surveys - Empros Lines Shipping - Costamare
- Clipper Group - Naftomar - Raytheon Marine - Xantic - Electronic Chart Centre
- Smart Security Group - Radio Holland - Stratos Global - Weathernews Aberdeen
- Videotel Marine - McMurdo - Warsash Maritime Centre - CASS
SPEAKERS FROM Wartsila - Lyras Shipping - Equasis - RightShip - MariNet
/ DNV Software - Xantic - UK P+I Club - Gilmour Research - Transas - C-MAP -
WNI - Newslink Services - Drum Cussac Maritime - Liberian Ship Registy - Maritime
and Underwater Security Consultants - Simrad - Vistar - Secure Marine - Inmarsat
- Pole Star Space Applications - Ulysses Systems - Seagull - Telaurus - 2 Trac
- ShipNet - Laycan - Maritime Bridge - Wartsila - AMMITEC
- Xantic - Thrane and Thrane - Stratos - Globe Wireless
JOURNALISTS FROM Lloyds List - Seatrade - NUMAST Telegraph - Seatrade
- Baltic Magazine - Deutsche Verkehrszeitung DVZ - Maritime
Supplier -
Digital Ship
CONFERENCE PROGRAM OUTLINE AT A GLANCE
November 4: IMPROVING SHIP SAFETY AND QUALITY Data indices which demonstrate
the quality of a shipmanagement - putting ship-related documents on the web
- getting safety advice to seafarers - web services for safety related data
- ship alert data incorporated into fleet management - navigation technologies
November 5: IMPROVING SHIP SECURITY: ISPS code: what exactly is required
- seafarer identity cards - what exactly is required - technology for ship alert
systems - night vision and CCTV cameras - electric fences - software to manage
new seafarer security tasks - software to train seafarers security requirements
- ship shore communications associated with security - fingerprint remote identification
of seafarers
Novemer 6: IMPROVING SHIP OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY - discussions with brokers,
agents, shipowners, vessel, charterer, on a single screen - co-ordinating vessel
business - communications with agents - support for shipboard computers - broadband
ship shore communications - experiences with Inmarsat Fleet - Digital Ship award
for the new technology which has done the most to improve safety, security or
operating efficiency
HIGHLIGHTS
- P&O Nedlloyd's experiences installing and using Inmarsat Fleet
- Using software tools to gather information and measure the safety of a shipping
company, to enable continuous improvement
- Reducing communications costs, software costs, communications costs, training
costs, security costs, fuel costs, insurance costs
- Discussion - helping seafarers navigate more safely and efficiency using technology
tools
- Assessing security threats and minimising them - how technology can help
- Emerging markets for technology suppliers: long range tracking equipment,
web services tools
- Cost benefit analysis of VSAT onboard vessels - when is it viable
- Providing improved data to charterers to help them make a charter decision
- Benefits of higher resolution weather data
- Closed circuit television cameras, electric fences and nightvision as tools
against piracy -
Digital Ship magazine is running a three day conference in London on November
4-6 to look at the most innovative maritime information technology to help improve
safety, security and operational efficiency.
The conference will begin by looking at the tricky area of how shipowners convince
charterers, insurers and banks that they run safe and quality operations.
Currently, seafarers are required to undertake up to 20 vetting inspections
a year, with a person physically inspecting the ship and interrogating seafarers
during port calls, at a time when seafarers have things they would much rather
be doing.
Maritime experts Andrew Craig Bennett and Dimitris Lyras will talk about how
modern software tools can be used to ease the pain of vetting.
Data about the seafarers' certificates, safety processes, decision making processes,
along with the ship's casualty records, class certificates, detention records,
safety procedures and costs, can easily be posted online for authorised parties
to see.
A whole day will be devoted to ship security, trying to reach sensible conclusions
about what shipping companies actually have to do in order to obtain a ship
security certificate, beyond fitting some electronics, making a security plan
and forcing seafarers to read it.
There will be presentations from companies producing hardware to improve ship
security in many different ways, including electric fences, short range radar,
night vision cameras and seafarer identity cards.
There will be presentations from the software companies with products to help
manage the pain of the ISPS code, including seafarer training and task monitoring.
Other interesting issues to be covered include allowing seafarers to buy personal
items from the ship and have them delivered when it arrives at port; developments
in electronic navigation and training; improving the efficiency of port calls
through better port-vessel communication.
An award will be presented to the technology released this year which has done
the most to improve maritime efficiency, security and safety, judged by a panel
of shipping company IT managers.
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exhibition and sponsorship information - information
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DAY ONE PROGRAM NOVEMBER 4 : IMPROVING SHIP SAFETY AND QUALITY
Moderator: Dr
Andy Norris, chairman IEC Technical Committee 80 and Special Professor of Navigation
Technology, Nottingham University (ex managing director, ChartCo)
MORNING: IMPROVING SAFETY BY HAVING BETTER INFORMATION ABOUT SHIP SAFETY
9.30 Keynote presentation:
How the shipping
industry can use technology to improve quality
Dimitris Lyras, director of Lyras Shipping and advisor to Ulysses Systems
- How shipowners can demonstrate their own safety, rather than be continously
inspected, to reduce the number of vetting inspections
- Which data provides a useful indicator of the quality of a maritime operation?
10.00 Developments with Equasis - providing information about the history of
a ship online
George Barclay, secretariat, Equasis
Equasis is an online service which insurers, charterers, managers and others
can use to find out about a vessel's ISM audit, P+I insurers, port state control
deficiencies and flag state information from flag states. How Equasis can help
improve the quality of service the maritime industry can provide, and how it
could do more if more information was made available.
10.30 Providing safety data about shipping companies to charterers
Warwick Norman, CEO, RightShip
What is the best way to provide charterers about information about the safety
and quality of a maritime operation?
10.55 BREAK
11.25 Class
data as a web service
Bjørn Berger, MariNet project manager, DNV Software -
How DNV is making information about ships available as a web service
- The different between data available online and as a web service
- Can the implementation of web service in shipping offer business potential
to charterers, banks, insurers, vetting agenices and others?
11.50 Gathering data about the safety of a shipping company -
Giampiero Soncini, head of Far East software sales, Xantic
- How shipping companies can use IT to spot areas where they can improve safety
- Which data indices about a maritime operation should be made available outside
the company
12.15 DISCUSSION:
Which data gives the best indication of the safety of a shipping company? Is
it the casualty record, detention record, predictability of costs, records of
decision making processes, vetting inspection results, past experience with
a specific vessel / management, choice of class society, choice of flag, shipping
company brand recognition? DIMITRIS LYRAS, ANDREW CRAIG BENNETT, GIAMPERO
SONCINI, WARWICK NORMAN, MARK HOLFORD, GEORGE BARCLAY, BJORN BERGER
1.00
LUNCH
1.30 to 2pm: During lunch Warwick Norman, CEO of RightShip, will be demonstrating
the RightShip software/ online tool in the main conference room]
AFTERNOON: IMPROVING SHIP NAVIGATION
2.15 Introduction: human factors in ship navigation - how can ships be easier
to navigate?
Carl Bennett, Gilmour Research
2.45 How the maritime industry can do more for seafarers
George Hoyt, CEO, Newslink Services
Introduction to the Lloyds Register / Nautical Institute human awareness
in shipping project
Getting safety information out to seafarers - Newslink Services
3.15 Having updated shipboard
navigation data
John Muldowney, commercial sales manager, C-MAP UK
Real time updating of shipboard navigation information, including electronic
charts and weather
Improving safety and efficiency of ship operations
Why SENC distribution is the best solution for updating charts by internet and
e-mail
3.45 BREAK
4.05 The web as the ship's filing system
Andrew Craig Bennett, maritime commentator
Why the web is the ultimate filing system for all documents relating to a ship
Charter party description, information about crews qualifications, crew photographs,
crew biometric information, Equasis data, charterers comments, class records,
continuous synopsis review (CSR)
The end of fake seafarer
certificates
Why this leads to improved safety, transparency, simplification of procedures
and reduced data entry
Which data is public and which should be private - who should be allowed to
create the data
Who should operate the scheme
4.15 Using ship alert systems connected with weather information as a fleet
management tool
Richard Brown, vice president of Marine Services Development at Weathernews
(formerly Oceanroutes)
- how shipping companies can use the regular tracking data sent by ship alert
systems to help manage their fleets
- benefits of integrating ship tracking data, from a ship alert system, into
a weather routing system, to continually optimise the ship's route as the weather
changes
- meeting US requirements to provide information about last 3 ports visited
4.45 DISCUSSION: Human factors for seafarers: What is the best way to help seafarers
navigate vessels more safely, and provide new safety information to them? Is
it safety information embedded in news and entertainment tools? Special software
where they have to read alerts when they log on? Software which makes sure the
right information is immediately available when seafarers come looking at it?
Computer based refresher training courses (software or video)? "Official"
company memos? Notices from the insurance organisation? Safety notices sent
by ship by broadcast? Print publications delivered to the ships? Participants
include: Dimitris Lyras, Lyras Shipping; George Hoyt, Newslink Services, Carl
Bennett
5.30 BEVERAGES, DINNER
7pm Evening dinner for all delegates and speakers at L'abat Jour, City Road,
London
(walking distance
from Inmarsat conference centre)
(no charge for attendance - everybody is welcome)
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DAY TWO PROGRAM NOVEMBER 5 SESSION: IMPROVING SECURITY
MODERATOR: Paul Ashton, managing director, Vector Informatics
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: INTRODUCTION TO THE ISPS CODE
9.20 What are the real security threats to shipping and what practical means
can be taken to minimise them?
Bob Haddow, Drum Cussac Maritime Division
9.50 Introduction to ship security - how can technology help shipping companies
improve?
Commodore Chris Ellison, Maritime and Underwater Security Consultants
10.20 Identity cards
for seafarers: what data is stored on them, the ILO standard and the LISCR initiative
Scott Bergeron, chief operating officer, Liberian and International Ship Registry
10.50 BREAK
.
11.25 Closed circuit television cameras onboard ships
Will Attfield, commericial manager, systems and projects group, Kongsberg Simrad
Practical experience gained from fitting the system onboard a capeszie bulk
carrier
Usefulness in combatting piracy
Getting data from a camera onto shore
Visible or invisible cameras?
11.50 Benefits and cost of night vision cameras
Tony Ewer, Vistar
Practical applications of night vision cameras
Cost benefit analysis
When are they useful?
12.15 Electric fences
around ships - good precaution against piracy and stowaways?
Raphael Kahn, managing director, Secure Marine
Electric fences are suitable for use on vessels carrying non-flammable cargoes,
including container vessels, ferries, general cargo vessels
Also - electric fences around ports and temporary cruise ship terminals
12,40 pm LUNCH
1.40 AFTERNOON: SOFTWARE AND SATCOMS FOR SHIP SECURITY
1.40 Expected requirements for long range tracking
and shipboard alert systems
Brian Mullan, general manager of maritime and aeronautical safety services,
Inmarsat
- Overview to ship security alert systems requirements
- Likely dates for enforced long range tracking of ships
- How a long range tracking system is likely to work
- Suitability of AIS as a tool for Long Range Tracking
- Demands on satellite equipment manufacturers
2.05 Using a dedicated ship security alert system
such as Purplefinder DSAS
Julian Longson, VP Business Development, Pole Star Space Applications Limited
Guidance on use, including testing, activation, deactivation / resetting, and
defining an appropriate alert verification process
Choosing a technology for shipboard alert systems-
Inmarsat C, Inmarsat D+, Orbcomm, HF radio
2.30 Using software to help manage the seafarers new tasks under the ISPS code
Tim Ward, strategic account executive, Ulysses Systems
2.55 Software to help train seafarers in the ISPS code
Roger Ringstad, managing director, Seagull -
comparisons between using software and classroom training for shipboard security
officers -
kind of skills seafarers need to have as shipboard security officers -
return on investment for seafarer training software
3.20 BREAK
3.50 Ship-shore information exchange under the ISPS code
Trevor Whitworth, senior VP sales and marketing, Telaurus
A requirement of the ISPS Code is "to ensure early and efficient collation and
exchange of security related information".
The code further refers to the need for "continuous ef fective communications".
What is the nature of this information exchange, how much, in what format, and
how often?
Will existing communication systems provide cost effective and workable solutions?
4.15 Communicating maritime cargo tracking and security data by radio and satellite
Jimmy Millard, chief operating officer, 2-Track
How cargo tracking data can help with US Customs C-TPAT audits
Expediting approval by US customs inspectors outside the US under CSI initiative
Combining radio and low earth orbitting satellite for vessel and container fleet
management, and ship security alarms data
4.40 ANALYSIS OF TODAY'S PAPERS
Commodore Chris Ellison,
Maritime and Underwater Security Consultants
Bob Haddow, Drum Cussac Maritime
Of the technology presented today, which can do the most as a practical step
to improving shipboard security and ensuring that the ISPS Code is complied
with?
5.00 PRESENTATION
OF DIGITAL SHIP AWARD
New technology which has done the most to improve safety, security and efficiency
in maritime operations
See list of nominations, below
5.15 Alcoholic beverages, dinner
7pm Evening dinner
for all delegates and speakers at The Fox Pub, Paul Street
(walking distance from Inmarsat conference centre)
(no charge for attendance - everybody is welcome)
DAY THREE PROGRAM NOVEMBER 6 SESSION: IMPROVING EFFICIENCY
Moderator: Panagiotis Nomikos, IT consultant to Stelmar Tankers
MORNING - COMMUNICATIONS AND DATA EXCHANGE BETWEEN CHARTERER, SHIPPING COMPANY,
SHIPPING AGENT AND SHIP
9.30 Improved
co-ordination between different parties in the maritime supply chain
Neil Tomlinn, director, ShipNet
9.55 How IT can be used to make things better for charterers
and their business partners
Tor Svelland, managing director, Laycan
Using IT to help
improve the relationships between shipping companies and charterers
Using IT to improve connectivity between offices around the world
10.20 Ship agent communications
Mickey Watzak,
CEO, Maritime Bridge (Houston)
How shipping companies can use IT to keep track of port activities affecting
their vessels
How this information is useful to charterers and how it can be passed onto them
using web services
10.35 BREAK
11.00 SESSION: REMOTE ENGINE MONITORING
11.00 Condition based monitoring or shipboard engines
Johan Pellas, Condition Based Monitoring team, Wartsila
Wartsila's achievements providing remote monitoring of ship engines to date
Wartsila expects to be monitoring 55 shipboard engines on 12 vessels by the
end of this year
Ship - shore data transfer - what you can put in one 30kb e-mail attachment
per day
How Wartsila's staff can contribute to improving the shipboard engine tuning
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Does this service reduce the amount of engineering skill actually required onboard?
11.25 SESSION: SHIPBOARD SOFTWARE
Introduction
to the Assocation of Maritime Managers of Technology, Information and Communications
(AMMITEC)
Dr Panagiotis Nomikos, founder, AMMITEC
11.50 DISCUSSION: How can web tools and communications do the most
to improve efficiency of vessel operations - SPEAKERS
12.20 Lunch
1.30 AFTERNOON - SHIP SHORE COMMUNICATIONS
1.30 Inmarsat
Fleet on P&O Nedlloyd
Iwan Banens, director of airtime, Xantic
Experiences with implementing Inmarsat Fleet with P&O Nedlloyd
Approaches to installation
Combining equipment leasing deal with airtime
What P&O Nedlloyd is using Inmarsat Fleet for, ISDN or MPDS?
1.55 Experiences with Inmarsat Fleet installations to date
Christian Kock, maritime technical pre-sales manager, Thrane and Thrane
Comparisons between Fleet 33, Fleet 55 and Fleet 77 installations
Issues with installations and how they were resolved
2.20 Reducing shipping operational costs through remote IT management over Fleet
MPDS
Adrian MacAllister, head of product development, Stratos
Speaker from Marconi Selenia (joint presentation)
Improving IT equipment selection, installation and maintenance Remote IT management
and support via Inmarsat Fleet MPDS
2.55
Integrated maritime communications solutions - maximising the benefit
Alan Leach, general manager Europe, Globe Wireless
3.20 BREAK
3.50 Broadband communication
Overview of VSAT technologies, cost benefit analysis, how they can
be used to extend the company's bottom line
Pål Jensen, vice president of Telenor Satellite Services
4.15 Wireless area networks and wi-fi - how is it working in shipping?
Steve Harding, 3G Marine
- Experiments using wireless area networks: BC Ferries, Panama Canal
wi-fi networks in ports: is it feasible?
4.40 Discussion: How can ship-shore communications
be best improved?
SPEAKERS
5.20 CLOSE - Evening beverages at the Angel Pub, come out of front door and
turn left
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DIGITAL SHIP AWARDS -
New technology
which has done the most to improve safety and quality, security and efficiency
in maritime operations
NOMINATIONS
- Management Systems Consulting, offering a
support system for shipboard computers and disaster response
- Broadband Maritime and Danaos have partnered to combine an affordable
VSAT broadband communications system with a ship management software suite for
effective and secure vessel to office networks.
- Xantic's AMOS F-MIS which gives shipmanagers an overview of Fleet Key
Performance Indicators: costs, consumptions, time before breakdown/repair, budgets.
- Ulysses Systems software to help seafarers comply with ISPS code
- Heidenreich Innovations - Q88 tool to allow shipowners to automatically
fill out oil company and terminal questionairres
- RightShip - providing information about vessel safety and quality to
charterers
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Nowcasting International - delivering and displaying short-term weather
data onboard ships, time resolution one hour rather than 6 hours, space resolution
1 mile rather than 30 miles, tidal height accurary 0.1m rather than 0.5m
ShipServ, allowing shipping companies, suppliers and logistics providers
to purchase and manage ship supplies electronically
allowing shipping companies, suppliers and logistics providers to purchase and
manage ship supplies electronically
- Equasis - an online tool to provide access to maritime safety information
about specific vessels provided by Port State Control, Class Societies and others
Globe Wireless, one stop shop for supply, installation and support of shipboard
computers, and all ship-shore data communications and shipboard security alert
systems
- Teledata a web hosted system which can be accessed by seafarers onboard
ship, for managing purchasing, maintenance personnel, accounting, document management,
ISM, repair, with no software on the ship at all apart from Internet Explorer
- Transas Marine: ISPS system for ports and port vicinity, using a combination
of VTS, AIS, radar and CCTV
- Vector, maritime management software which sends alerts to staff members
by e-mail with links which automatically open the relevant software module,
rather than requiring them to search through the software menus to find out
what they have to do
- Telaurus, communications over Inm-B, mini-M, charged by the amount
of data rather than the time taken to send it
- Danaos,
an integrated shipmanagement system applied throughout the company and the fleet
without any software running on board
- C-MAP, software to gather all navigation information,
including charts and weather and routing information onto a single screen
The award will be judged by a panel of 5 shipping company IT managers, including
Panagiotis Nomikos, IT consultant to Stelmar Tankers; Patrick Slesinger, chief
information officer, Wallem Shipmanagement; Adonis Violaris, ICT manager, Hanseatic
Shipping, and Pradeep Chawla, quality manager, Anglo Eastern Shipmanagement,
Dr Andy Norris, Technical
Committee 80.
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EXHIBITORS
INCLUDE
REPORTS FROM DIGITAL SHIP 2002
Companies which participated in Digital Ship 2002, November 2002, include:
3g marine, All Set Tracking, Alphatrust, Ashton Andrews, Augustea, AXS Marine,
Baltic Exchange, BASS, Bergesen, Cathor Liquified Gas Company, CCMC, Cetena,
ChartCo, Danish Hydrographic Office, Denbridge Digital, Dial Ltd, DNV Innovation,
Doehle, Doll Shipping Consultancy, Drew Marine Division, Drewry Technical Services,
Easylink Services, EMS Satcom, Eutelsat S.A., Fidelio Cruise, France Telecom
Germany, Germanischer Lloyd, G-O Technologies, Holman Ltd, ID Scandinavia, Inmarsat,
International SOS, Intl Business Services, Invsat Ltd, Iridium, ISM Consult,
Kongsberg Marimite, Kongsberg Simrad, Lagumar Marine, Lloyds List, Logimatic
Software AS, Manpower Software, Marine Computing, Marine Equipment News, Marine
Exchange of Alaska, Marine Provider, Maritime Consultancy Network, Maritime
Development Center of Europe, Maritime Systems Inc, Marlink, Monition, Navarik
Corp, Nera Satellite Services Ltd, Norcontrol UK, Odfjell, Pole Star Space Applications,
Qinetiq, Saab TransponderTech, Safety at Sea, Satelcom, Savi, Schlumberger,
Schlumbergersema, Seagull, Seawave, Stier & Co. Canary Islands, Stratos, Stratos
Broadband Networks, Sun Cruises, Teekay Shipping (Canada Ltd), Telaurus, Telemedic
Systems, Teleporto Adriatico, Telia Mobile, The Needham Report, Thenamaris,
Thrane and Thrane, Trenstar, Ulysses Systems, Vector Informatic Systems, VideoTel,
Wilh Wilhelmsen, Wood & Douglas Ltd, Xantic
To download presentations from Digital Ship 2002, click here
http://www.thedigitalship.com/presentations.htm#ds2002
To download the report from the security day, Digital Ship 2002, click
here
http://www.thedigitalship.com/articles/ds2002securityday.pdf
To download the report from the comms and software day, Digital Ship
2002, click here
http://www.thedigitalship.com/articles/ds2002commsandsoftwareday.pdf
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FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT DIGITAL SHIP AWARD NOMINEES
Telaurus - SeaComm.
"se@COMM manages all a ship's communication needs. It minimizes costs by charging
for the amount of compressed data sent across a satellite link rather than for
the time it takes to send it.
"The price of sending each message is displayed prior to transmission making
it easier for the Captain to budget and control expenditure. Real-time information
transfer, no charges for satellite handshakes or dropped connections, one monthly
bill for end-to-end communication services, simple system configuration, automatic
recognition of satellite systems, encrypted secure transmission, and efficient
transfer of commonly required information through se@FORMS, combine to cut costs
by as much as 90% while reducing management overhead."
Vector Informatics Systems
Vector Management Workflow System: workflow management for ship management companies,
covering technical, operations and finance, with alerts sent to staff members
by e-mail with hyperlinks which open up the relevant software module on the
right stage with all the data pre-entered. The system is configured specially
for each company, with tools to handle workflow when one staff member is travelling
or on vacation, with reminders if tasks are not completed and alerts escalated
to management if necessary. Advantages are that tasks cannot be forgotten, it
cuts down on training needs, there is a full audit trail. www.vectorinformatics.com
Nowcasting International
Nowcasting International provides the state of the art, accurate, PC based marine
weather forecasting system that delivers weather forecasts on board vessels
using standard marine communications. Its Patented Technology gives unrivalled
simplicity ensuring weather critical decisions can be made in confidence. The
highly innovative technology and revolutionary approach to marine weather forecasting
system has been proven to offer improved levels of safety, as well as increased
efficiency, and reduced costs for customers, in Europe and the US. http://www.nowcasting.ie
RightShip
RightShip provides an online Ship Information Vetting System (or SVIS) to shippers
and charterers worldwide. The system is unique in its combination of: 1. Comprehensive
data from sources worldwide 2. Rigorous and sophisticated evaluation of the
data, and 3. Easy-to-use interface, that provides users with guidance rather
than just information. The key unique feature of the RightShip SVIS© is that
when a user searches for information about a vessel, they do not just see a
summary of the data. The developers of the system know that decisions are often
made by people with commercial expertise but not necessarily the experience
to evaluate complex marine risk data.RightShip subscribers are given a star
rating for each ship - from one to five stars, five being the highest rating.
Danaos and Broadband
Danaos and Broadband Maritime have partnered to offer a revolutionary solution
for vessel management: permanent broadband access for vessel to office networks.
Affordable, efficient and secure, Broadband Maritime’s global maritime VSAT
communications solution includes both equipment and unlimited data transmissions,
at a minimum guaranteed speed of 64 Kbps, for a fixed monthly rate. Danaos has
fine tuned its’ world-renowned vessel management software modules for the client
to fully benefit from BBM’s technology; allowing vessels to become a node of
the corporate network. On-line notifications, alerts to the vessel, immediate
access to corporate information, validation of vessel input at the source and
easy maintenance for the office IT personnel and no need to visit the vessels
for software upgrades. This is "Real-time fleet management" at its’ best! Voice
calls between vessel and office are $0.10 per minute. Crew calling cards provide
seafarers with personal voice rates much lower than any other communication
system. Above all, this unmatched solution provides peace of mind with a low
monthly fee that is well below the current operational expenses for communication.
Digital Ship Ltd, 213 Marsh Wall, London E14 9FJ, UK, tel (+44 207) 510 4935, fax (+44 207) 510 2344, http://www.thedigitalship.com, jeffery@thedigitalship.com