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NAPA has announced that Siemens' innovative system platform, Siship EcoMain, now offers integration of software from leading maritime software house NAPA. On the heel of a series of high-level partnerships between NAPA and leaders in the global maritime industry, this agreement marks the first step of a developing partnership around software between NAPA and Siemens. NAPA Logbook, which provides 'real time' awareness of vessel operations to those on shore, will run on Siship EcoMain's standardised interface which allows data exchange between all onboard electronic systems. Integrating NAPA Logbook into Siship EcoMain will maximize information sharing between stakeholders on board and ashore. This integration into Siship EcoMain will also help owners minimize installation costs by allowing the customer to install several applications alongside NAPA Logbook through the flexible data platform. Siship EcoMain is a common platform into which all operational data from the numerous sophisticated installations and systems onboard a ship is gathered and processed in a standard format, including some third-party software like this integration from NAPA. Until now, such systems have managed individual processes successfully but Siship EcoMain is the first system to pool data from all modules to help ship operators optimise their use of energy and resources ...

The ClassNK informed that the structural calculation software for the IACS Common Structural Rules (CSR) have been revised and newly released as Ver. 8.0.0. This software allows ship designers to quickly calculate the requirements for structural members in accordance with the IACS CSR and help to make ship design work easier. In these new versions, the software has been updated in order to make the system more convenient and user-friendly in response to requests received from users. The new versions released at this time are as follows: PrimeShip-HULL(Rules)/CSR Bulk Carrier "Rule calculation software for CSR Bulk Carriers" Ver. 8.0.0 PrimeShip-HULL(Rules)/CSR Tanker "Rule calculation software for CSR Tankers" Ver. 8.0.0 PrimeShip-HULL(DSA)/CSR "Direct calculation software for CSR" Ver. 8.0.0 For further details, please refer to the CSR Software Homepage. CSR Software Homepage        In the start, I was forthright with you propecia before and after has changed my life. It has become much more fun, and now I have to run. Just as it is incredible to sit.

LNG America Bunker Barge prototype with a capacity of 3,000 cubic meters LNG America has selected Taylor-Wharton to commence the front-end engineering and design work for the cryogenic topside of the company's 3,000 cubic meter Gemini Class LNG bunker barge scheduled for delivery at the end of 2015. "Taylor-Wharton has been actively engaged in the development process and instrumental in helping to develop the critical path time line for a late 2015 in-service date," said Keith Meyer, CEO of LNG America. The LNG bunker vessels will provide a critical building block in the bridge between the natural gas industry and the global marine industry, and will allow the ship owners and charter parties to receive LNG as a bunker fuel in the same way they receive oil today. With the selection of Taylor-Wharton, LNG America has assembled a top-tier team to support its LNG bunker barge program; previously LNG America announced Jensen Maritime as the naval architect for the project and ABS as its class society. "We are looking forward to working with LNG America on North America's first LNG bunker barges. Taylor-Wharton is uniquely suited to provide LNG America the cryogenic expertise for this first LNG bunker barge. Our ...

An enhanced Fatigue Design Assessment (FDA) Level 2 solution is now available in LR's ShipRight software. It provides a robust tool which can help owners to reduce their risks. This first release covers oil tankers and membrane type LNG carriers. Lloyd's Register has given designers, ship owners and operators an updated tool to help assess new or existing designs and to help further reduce the risk of fatigue damage in ship's hull structures. Cracks and fractures at connections between longitudinal stiffeners and transverse frames of ship's structures, particularly in large oil tankers with higher tensile steel constructions, were a serious concern in the 1980's and the early 1990's. To address these concerns in the early 1990's, Lloyd's Register introduced ShipRight FDA procedures to promote structural detail design and fatigue performance assessment. Over the last 20 years, Lloyd's Register has continuously invested in the development of ShipRight FDA procedures. A new FDA Level 2 module has been incorporated within the ShipRight software which further improves on current technology and makes the assessment tool more robust and versatile. The ShipRight FDA Level 2 module includes the following features: ShipRight FDA Level 2 module included features: New interface for the modelling and fatigue ...

Probabilistic tidal window determination application - PROTIDE (Image Credit: Charta Software) BMT ARGOSS (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd and Charta Software have announced a partnership to develop a robust, multi-functional software package, called METRIS, (Modelsysteem voor Evaluatie Tijpoortregeling en RIsico'S bodemberoering), meaning ‘Model system to evaluate tidal admission policy and risk of seabed touchdown', for the Dutch Directorate-General. The partnership aims to meet the client's needs by combining BMT's expertise in heading analysis, vessel response behaviour, weather forecasting and shallow water metocean conditions, with Charta's ability to deliver high quality software. METRIS will provide a comprehensive hindcast assessment tool to test the performance of admission and dredging policy based on the probability of seabed touch down of vessels in anchorage areas and access channels to ports. Ernst Bolt, Sr. Advisor from the Dutch Directorate-General comments: "The main factor restricting admission of deep-draught ships to ports is the risk of bottom contact. We want to ensure that we are making best use of our approach channels. For ships restricted to our access channels, the Dutch Directorate maintains a guaranteed nautical depth for a total distance of over 100 km to accommodate deep draught vessels sailing to the three large ...

As a result of the merger, DNV GL is now strengthening its design and engineering software by expanding its Sesam portfolio with the product Sesam CAESES. Sesam CAESES supports upfront design optimization in the maritime, offshore and mechanical industries. With Sesam CAESES (Computer Aided Engineering System Empowering Simulation) users can improve hydro- or aerodynamic performance of designs, for example to achieve lower resistance and reduce pressure drop. This leads to higher energy efficiency of ship hulls, propellers, engines and turbo-machinery, improving environmental and business performance. Sesam CAESES was previously marketed as FRIENDSHIP-Framework, part of Germanischer Lloyd's software portfolio. "FRIENDSHIP-Framework has long been recognized as leading software within its field," says DNV GL - Software Managing Director Are Føllesdal Tjønn. "We are proud to include it now as Sesam CAESES in the Sesam family of products for design and engineering," he says. Model, solve and optimize designs upfront With Sesam CAESES engineers can carry out numerous simulations to optimize designs. It integrates with most of the leading commercial CFD (computational fluid dynamics) codes as well as in-house codes. It can be integrated with other Sesam modules in the design optimization process. Multiple modules can be involved allowing for complex simulation scenarios. ...

The American Littoral Society has unveiled a new smart phone app that empowers citizens to report pollution, algae blooms and biological events such as fish kills in coastal waters. The "Marine Defenders" project was first released in July 2012 and was originally conceived and developed for reporting oil spills.The American Littoral Society expanded the app to allow reporting on a broader variety of pressing issues of concern along the coast, including: algal blooms, jellyfish occurrences; fish kills and endangered injured wildlife; and marine debris. Helen Henderson, Atlantic Coast Program Manager for the Society said, "Our bays and coastal waters are facing a multitude of threats. We are putting this tool into the hands of thousands of people who will be eyes on the water, helping to protect and restore our bays and coast. Oil spills, algae blooms and fish kills need to be identified quickly and responded to. This tool will empower the public to both identify the problems and be part of seeking a solution." The Marine Defenders app is an efficient easy-to-use tool for mariners, both professional and casual, to document and report marine oil spills, marine debris and significant biological impacts. The marine defenders project includes a ...

ShipConstructor 2014 R2.1, released from SSI, has been specifically designed to rapidly respond to emerging trends in ship design and engineering as identified by SSI's innovative new Client Council program. "Both technology and industry requirements are evolving quickly so our clients continually need to adapt," explained SSI CTO Denis Morais. "SSI's Client Council program has been designed to address this by having focus groups of similar clients propose new features that SSI can quickly incorporate into our software. ShipConstructor 2014 R2.1 is the first of our Client Council releases and I'm pleased with how quickly things came together. Within just a few months, we hammered out an agreement, developed and tested the new functionalities requested, and have now released new features that can immediately address clients' pain points and enhance their competitiveness." CEO Darren Larkins also weighed in, "These Client Councils are the logical next step for SSI. We have always intended our ship designing & ship building products to be industry specific, reflecting the requirements ship builders ask for. As SSI has grown into a global company, those requirements sometimes differ from region to region and these Client Councils provide a level of consensus for those requirements." The group ...

AVEVA and AMEC have announced their signing of a new five-year global agreement for the supply of AVEVA software for engineering, design and information management. This latest agreement extends a single global contract that provides access for all of AMEC's worldwide offices to the full portfolio of AVEVA software and services, including the AVEVA Enterprise Resource ManagementTM suite, and the new market-leading AVEVA Everything3DTM (AVEVA E3DTM) design software. 'AMEC has developed industry leading engineering and information management systems which, in combination with AVEVA technology, represent a powerful project delivery offering to AMEC's customers,' said Colin Fairweather, Applied Technology Director for AMEC's Europe business. 'Using our combined systems and technology we can deliver more predictable project outcomes, which is what all of our customers are requesting of AMEC.' AMEC uses AVEVA software to manage operations on the Dunlin A platform. / Image Credit: AMEC 'Our strong relationship with AMEC has brought considerable business value to both parties,' said Dave Wheeldon, Chief Technology Officer, AVEVA. 'Over the last decades AMEC has provided invaluable feedback, advice and inspiration for our technology development roadmap and we continue to work closely with their team to apply the latest proven technologies to advance their capabilities. The scale of ...

One of DNV GL's most widely used software products; ECO Assistant has improved the profitability and sustainability of over 500 vessels across all ship types, with verified fuel savings. Over only half a decade in operation, ECO Assistant has already saved in excess of 150 million dollars in fuel costs, with a resulting reduction in CO2 emissions of 700,000 metric tonnes - the amount of carbon removed from the atmosphere by over 100,000 acres of forest over the same period. Of all the "quick fixes" to optimise energy efficiency on existing vessels, or newbuildings, trim optimisation tools can make the most immediate impact to the bottom line profit of an existing vessel. An easy refit, and payback times of, in most cases, only a few months, can lead to significant savings over the life of a vessel. "When we first presented the potential gains from using ECO Assistant, the initial response was sceptical. Not many believed that the savings we predicted could be true," says Heike Hansen, Team Leader Fluid Engineering at DNV GL. "Within the first year, however, we saw that as we demonstrated the system, its ease of implementation and the demonstrable results we could produce grabbed customer ...