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Broadband for applications at sea is a rapid growth area Broadband for applications at sea is an area that is experiencing rapid growth and one that demands increasingly fast data transfer speeds.Levels of use are blossoming as communication, control and monitoring are increasingly being carried via onshore operative nodes. Inmarsat and Iridium, the two transmission systems currently in use, have reached their saturation point, and the next generation of satellite communication for the maritime industry is now starting to take shape.Several satellite operators are on the verge of launching global capacity to cover the world's seas. In order to obtain higher bandwidths, frequency has to be increased. This places more stringent demands on the communications equipment on board ships.Gothenburg-based Satcube AB is in the process of developing terminals to handle the next generation of satellite capacity. "These satellite terminals need to be more accurate and demonstrate greater efficiency than the old L-band system terminals they replace," says Jakob Kallmér, Satcube's CEO. "Availability and robustness requirements continue to be extensive. However, customers aren't prepared to pay much more for the hardware. That's why you need to take a new approach when developing this type of terminal," he continues.Satcube has developed a ...

Linea Messina is the first ever vessel to operate commercially with a scrubber system Hamworthy Krystallon, the world leading marine scrubbing technology manufacturer, announced that the first of four vessels installed with the company's seawater scrubbers for leading Italian ship owner Ignazio Messina & Co has come on line.Linea Messina is the first ever vessel to operate commercially with a scrubber system, enabling Ignazio Messina to meet 0.1% sulphur emissions regulations in EU ports, as well as "future-proofing" the vessel for the impending 2015 0.1% Emission Control Area (ECA)."This is a landmark moment, not just for Hamworthy Krystallon, but the entire shipping industry," said Sigurd Jenssen, Managing Director, Hamworthy Krystallon. "Bringing Linea Messina on line highlights the validity of scrubbing technology as a viable and cost-effective solution to meet the stringent sulphur emissions regulations, that are serving to transform the shipping industry.By 2015, ship owners and operators operating in ECAs will have a simple choice - either pay the $300 to $400 price differential for costly distillate fuel or install a scrubber, which typically has a payback of less than 2 years. Messina has shown what the smart choice is." continued Jenssen.Ignazio Messina placed the world's first commercial order for ...

Scrubber technology and fuel efficiency is the key to lower emissions Pressure on the shipping industry to reduce the air emissions from vessels grows day by day. Regulations to more strictly limit the sulphur content in marine fuel are in place and set to tighten over the coming year. Exhaust gas scrubbers are one solution for vessels to meet such limits over the coming years and to discuss the use of this technology Germanischer Lloyd (GL) recently held an exchange forum at their Head Office in HamburgMore than 50 representatives from the maritime industry, shipping companies, ship management agencies, shipyards, maritime journalists and stakeholders met to consider the emissions limits, hear presentations from GL and industry experts, and discuss the drivers, implementation and commercial implications of scrubber technology for the industry.Mr Ralf Plump, Head of GL's Department Environmental Research, set the background for the presentations at the forum, providing attendees with an examination of the international regulations in place and upcoming, the drivers pushing their introduction, and the advantages provided by scrubber technology. Mr Plump also looked at the estimated costs for retrofitting scrubber to existing vessels, in comparison with the installation of LNG (liquefied natural gas) fuel systems. Not ...

Using the Maritime Information Systems of Norway voyage decision support system Tolani Shipping's Singapore division is to use the Maritime Information Systems (Maris) of Norway voyage decision support system as part of an initiative to adapt green technology to its owned and operated vessels.Tolani Shipping owns a fleet of bulk carriers ranging in size from 50,000dwt to 84,000dwt with an average age of five years. With its origins in India, Tolani Shipping established a presence in Singapore in 2003 and operates vessels under both the Indian and Singaporean flags.The Maris VDS System is an electronic tool based on the Maris ECDIS, designed to plan and execute voyages in a safe manner with optimal fuel and time consumption and also document and analyse the results.The system comprises a separate VDS computer which is also a fully functional ECDIS. It operates in a LAN with the two regular ECDIS installations required for approved ECDIS navigation. The reason for choosing a total of three is that the VDS will have a second important function as a spare ECDIS. Approved ECDIS navigation will require two functional ECDIS installations at any time, meaning, for instance, that vessels may be refused clearance for leaving port if ...