Stril Poseidon -

Stril Poseidon -

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 The Stril Poseidon was built by Aker Langsten for owner Simon Møkster Shipping in Stavanger. It is a third-generation rapid response rescue vessel, which will be used on Statoil's Haltenbank fields. The vessel was designed as a co-operation between Vik-Sandvik, Aker and Møkster Shipping.

The Stril Poseidon has an overall length of 91.4m, a length of 78.25m between perpendiculars and a draft of 6.5m. Its beam is 18.2m. The depth to the first deck is 7.5m and 4.5m to the second deck. It registers a deadweight of 2,500t. The funnel is offset and lowered, ensuring an almost 360° view from anywhere

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Fugro Symphony Offshore Construction Vessel, Bahamas

Fugro Symphony Offshore Construction Vessel, Bahamas

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Fugro Symphony is an offshore construction vessel (OCV) built to perform ROV intervention, light construction and survey operations in deep sea waters. The Bahamas-flagged vessel was delivered in May 2011 to her operator Fugro Subsea Services, a subsidiary of Fugro Group.

Norwegian ship-builder Bergen Group was contracted for construction of the ship in December 2007. Construction started with a keel-laying ceremony in November 2009. The ship's steel hull, manufactured by Gdansk Shipyard

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Wärtsilä power, ship design selected to PSV for harsh conditions

Wärtsilä power, ship design selected to PSV for harsh conditions

04/03/2014
 

Offshore staff

HELSINKI, Finland – A new platform supply vessel (PSV) to be built for operations in arctic conditions is to be designed and powered by Wärtsilä. This is the first confirmed contract for Wärtsilä Ship Design's new series of arctic PSVs.

Wärtsilä will also supply an integrated package that includes machinery, and the electrical and automation systems, including the patented Wärtsilä Low Loss Concept (LLC). The company says this highly redundant diesel-electric system provides additional reliability for continuous operation in various failure modes.

The contracts with Kleven Verft AS were signed in January. The ship will be built at the Kleven yard in Norway on behalf of REM Offshore AS. The vessel is

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Ship Navigation Simulator Helps Propel Plans for Unmanned Ships of the Future (2)

 

Published on April 2, 2014 at 8:47 AM

Ships of the future will soon be steered across the Seven Seas – unmanned. A new simulator is helping propel these plans forward. Partners from five different countries engineered the design of the autonomous freighter.

 Hans-Christoph Burmeister scans over the onboard instrumentation: an electronic maritime chart; a display of water depths; the adjacent monitor that displays the radar image. Burmeister then reaches for the wheel and steers his 220 m mass-goods freighter into a new direction. “We are now sailing on a course of 290 degrees, speed twelve knots.” Even if this scenario is quite realistic, Burmeister is no captain on the bridge, but is standing instead in a room at the Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and

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Integrated bridge system (IBS)

          

 

IMO

An integrated bridge system (IBS) is defined as a combination of systems which are interconnected in order to allow centralized access to sensor information or command/control from workstations, with the aim of increasing safe and efficient ship's management by suitably qualified personnel.

Performance stadards for integrated bridge systems were adopted by IMO in 1996 (Resolution MSC.64(67))

The revised SOLAS chapter V adopted in December 2000 and entering into force in July 2002 says in Regulation 19 Carriage requirements for shipborne navigational systems and equipment paragraph 6: Integrated bridge systems shall be so arranged that failure of one sub-system is brought to immediate attention of the officer in charge of the navigational watch by audible and visual alarms, and does not cause failure to any other sub-system. In case of failure in one part of an integrated navigational system, it shall be possible to operate each other individual item of equipment or part of the system separately.