Tag: communication onboard

The UK MAIB issued last year Safety Digest including lessons learnt from maritime accidents.

MTN Communications announced that Carnival Corporation has signed a new agreement for the provision of Internet services to its guests and crew.

KVH Industries, Inc., is doubling the capacity for two of the three global C-band beams of its mini-VSAT Broadband network, further enhancing the world's most extensive C/Ku-band maritime VSAT network.

Do we know what our crew really wants? InterManager has launched a new survey on crew communication to draw a picture of what crew really wants. There is a lot of talk about communication especially Internet (broad band) for crew, however it is interesting to find out if we actually know our crew needs.The data from this survey will benefit seafarers and the wider industry by giving a full picture of the communications facilities provided at sea, allowing companies and their staff to benchmark provision by sector and across the industry.InterManager invites maritime community to paricipate anonymously on its new survey hereQuestions include seafarer IT skill levels, the provision, type and location of communications on board and what effects seafarers perceive the availability of onboard communications facilities to have on crew members.InterManager Secretary General, Captain Kuba Szymanski, said: "Please help us to grasp the situation and get a clearer picture of what communications facilities are available or needed within the shipping industry."Completed pdf survey answers can be either:1. Scanned and emailed [email protected] or;2. Posted to FUTURENAUTICS (in bulk) at: Futurenautics Ltd, c/o 77 Salisbury Road, Dover, Kent, CT16 1EY, United Kingdom. Futurenautics will reimburse the cost of postage.

Crisis Communications; Experience from recent incidents

Guidance on the Validity of Radio communications Equipment Installed and Used on Ships

Norsat Introduce VSAT Communications Package

Inmarsat Appoints First Land Terminal Manufacturing Partners for Global Xpress

Two new comms products from Gentay

IMO Sub-Committee on Radiocommunications and Search and Rescue United Nations' International Maritime Organization (IMO) held a meeting in the Sub-Committee on Radiocommunications and Search and Rescue (COMSAR 16). The meeting was held at the IMO headquarters in London on 12-16 March 2012.The meeting focused especially on the work revising and modernizing the GMDSS system, which stipulates regulations and standards for maritime distress and safety communication. The GMDSS system has been operative for about 20 years, and technological developments have meant that, at the COMSAR session held in 2010, it was decided to start pre-investigating the need for modernizations. During the pre-investigations, a revision and modernization of the system was considered necessary, which there was also general agreement about at the COMSAR session just held.Consequently, a work plan for a revision and modernization of the GMDSS system was agreed upon, and this work is planned to be finalized in 2017. Furthermore, it was decided to re-establish a correspondence group, which is to continue the ongoing work until the next COMSAR session that will be held in 2013.A joint working group at the IMO and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will, in addition, consider the revision of the GMDSS system at a ...