Tag: Dynamic Positioning

Kongsberg Maritime, Bureau Veritas and offshore service provider Bourbon have announced the successful testing of a new solution for DP (Dynamic Positioning) system performance and redundancy audits, which is a first in the maritime industry. The 'DP Digital Survey' application acquires information directly from the DP system and delivers it to auditors through a secure cloud infrastructure.

Kongsberg Maritime conducted a a tailored DP (dynamic positioning) emergency scenario training course for SAIPEM's employees at the Kongsberg Maritime training centre in Kongsberg, Norway. SAIPEM decided to put all their pertinent crews through the course. Overall the series consists of ten courses.

Two members from the International Marine Contractors Association Secretariat will provide their contributions regarding eCMID Accredited Vessel Inspectors. Namely, MCA’s Technical Manager, Mark Ford, will update on the eCMID system, and Captain Andy Goldsmith will highlight reactivation of DP vessels.

The ability to assess and compare the position-keeping capability of a ship equipped with dynamic positioning technology is vital during the planning and design phases, and provides valuable operational decision support. Therefore, DNV GL presented its new standard for assessing the station keeping capability of DP vessels at the European Dynamic Positioning Conference that held in London, on 07 February.

  The Navis Engineering dynamic positioning control system and autopilot onboard the icebreaking rescue and emergency vessel Baltika have been approved as meeting performance expectations, following a searching set of Arctic ice trials in the Kara Sea. Developed by Finnish company Aker Arctic Technology, Baltika is the first ship ever built with an asymmetric hull that allows her to break ice not only ahead and astern, but also at an oblique angle. In this way, the icebreaker can open a channel in ice whose width is disproportionate to the vessel’s relatively small size. The innovative, multifunctional vessel is equipped with the Navis Nav DP4000 (DP System) and the Navis AP4000 Heading control system (autopilot). Navis Engineering and Aker Arctic have a scientific and technical cooperation agreement covering the joint development of technology for dynamic positioning systems for icebreakers and ice-class vessels. Ice trials were conducted around the northern tip of Novaya Zemlya and across the Kara Sea to the Gulf of Ob, close to the Sabetta terminal area. The trials involved performance tests in two distinct ice thicknesses in ahead and astern directions as well as in the oblique mode. Various operational tests were also carried out in order to determine the maneuverability and ...

BigRoll Shipping is building four state-of-the-art MC-Class Module Carriers

IMCA has published an updated edition of International Guidelines for the Safe Operation of DP Offshore Supply Vessels'

  The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has agreed to use the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) proposals as the basis for the review of the IMO Guidelines for vessels with dynamic positioning (DP) systems (MSC/Circ.645). The review will be taken forward by  an IMO intersessional correspondence group that will further develop the draft, with a view to finalising it at the next meeting of the IMO Ship Systems and Equipment (SSE) sub-committee, in 2016. “IMO’s circular 645 is the established international standard for DP systems. The guidelines have successfully provided the framework on which national regulations and classification society rules are based, and which are supplemented by a growing body of more detailed industry guidance,” explains IMCA’s Technical Director, Jane Bugler. “Over the decades since MSC/circ.645 was first published in 1994, DP has evolved from being a tool primarily for mobile offshore drilling units (MODUs) maintaining position over offshore wells, to being employed for a wide range of position keeping operations, with systems being fitted on much larger numbers of new vessels and on an increasingly diverse set of vessels, from offshore units to shuttle tankers and passenger vessels. “645 has been working well but needs amending slightly to reflect ...

USCG and the BSEE issued a joint safety alert addressing a dynamic positioning incident

L-3 MSI announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide its NACOS Platinum navigation system, including an integrated dynamic positioning system