p1-14:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 16:50 Page 1

December 2016 / January 2017

Maritime satcom revenues IN THIS ISSUE continue to climb in difficult market satcoms While the merchant shipping sector continues to struggle in an unforgiving Color Line expands economic climate, the maritime satellite communications market communications agreement – 6 is prospering – with combined annual satellite operator and service provider revenues climbing into the billions UASC adds at-sea TV to 44 vessels – 8

new report from analysts SpeedCast buys A Euroconsult has claimed Harris CapRock Athat the value of the mar- for $425m – 13 itime satellite communications mar- ket has reached almost $1 billion in annual revenue at the satellite opera- tor level, and is closing in on $2 bil- software lion in annual revenue at the service provider level. Port of LA to pilot container data Specifically, the ‘Prospects for sharing portal – 16 Maritime Satellite Communications’ report says that in 2015 the maritime Seafarer support site launched – 18 market of approximately 338,000 ter- minals created $953 million in satel- E.R. Schiffahrt lite operator revenues, and $1.7 bil- lion for service providers. and the Floating With a growth rate of 5 per cent in Lab – 22 terminals and revenue predicted over Combined revenues for satellite operators and service providers should hit the next ten years, that would mean $3 billion from maritime in 2018. Photo: Tony Webster, Creative Commons 2.0 that satellite operator revenues will electronics and surpass $1 billion by the end of 2016, main driver a few years ago. less than 2 Gbps in 2010, according to and service providers will pass $2 bil- Even though crew communica- the report. navigation lion annually before the end of 2018. tions still represents the vast majority Euroconsult notes that the collapse of a ship’s consumption, Euroconsult Future development GC Rieber to roll out in oil prices and the global oversup- says, vessel operators are increasing- “2016 was an important milestone for NAVTOR services ply in the merchant sector have con- ly becoming interested in Big Data maritime satellite communications. It tinued to negatively impact the mar- applications that improve operational marked the entry into service of HTS across its fleet – 24 itime market overall in 2016, and efficiency. As a result, the number of satellites with a major maritime focus, have resulted in a number of vessels VSAT terminals in the market grew with the entry into commercial opera- Carnival Maritime extends Fleet being decommissioned. by 9 per cent in 2015 to reach more tion of Inmarsat Global Xpress and Operations Centre – 26 However, demand for satellite than 16,000 active commercial termi- Telenor’s Thor 7 satellite, in addition communications continued to grow, nals at year-end. to the launch of the first two Epic New unmanned bolstered by increasing operational A total of 8.5 Gbps of C-, Ku- and satellites,” said Capucine Fargier, ship partnerships communications needs, as opposed to Ka-band capacity was used for mar- consultant at Euroconsult and editor crew communications which was the itime VSAT business, compared to of the report. agreed – 29 continued on page 2

The Maritime Communications Experts™

ON BOARD IP TRAFFIC CONTROL | POWERFUL WEB OPTIMISATION | FULLY AUTOMATED ANTI-VIRUS | SEAMLESS BUSINESS E-MAIL | ZERO ADMIN CREW E-MAIL | CENTRALISED CREW INTERNET QUOTA www.dualog.com p1-14:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 16:45 Page 2

SATCOMS

continued from page 1 “A number of additional HTS satellites service of flat-panel antennas in 2017, will them more purchasing power and greater will be launched in the coming years, with drive demand for more bandwidth-hungry economies of scale. This is expected to hap- maritime satellite supply expected to reach applications such as Big Data analytics and pen among both maritime players (as approximately 680 Gbps by 2020.” video streaming applications.” demonstrated by the recent acquisition of Vol 17 No 4 “This will result in a significant decrease The company also expects consolidation Harris CapRock by SpeedCast) and across in capacity prices which, along with innova- in the sector to continue, benefitting the mobility verticals (such as GEE’s acquisi- Digital Ship Limited tions at the antenna level with the entry into remaining service providers by giving tion of EMC). DS 1st Floor, 30 Warner Street London EC1R 5EX Thuraya adds dual mode satellite/GSM phone U.K. www.thedigitalship.com www.thuraya.com Its dual SIM, dual mode capability deliv- PUBLISHER ers unprecedented flexibility, which Stuart Fryer Thuraya has added to its satellite phone opens up new levels of value to end range with the launch of a new dual mode, users. Once again, Thuraya has delivered EDITOR dual SIM phone, the XT-PRO DUAL. a dramatic step forward in satellite com- Rob O'Dwyer: Tel: +44 (0)20 8144 6737 The unit allows users to avail of both munications capability, driven by market email: [email protected] satellite and terrestrial communications, demands.” depending on coverage availability, by Thuraya says that it has 389 GSM CONFERENCE PRODUCER employing a dedicated SIM slot for satel- roaming agreements already in place to Cathy Hodge: Tel +44 (0) 20 7253 2700 lite communications and a second one for support use of its handsets across the email: [email protected] GSM communications. world outside its satellite coverage zone. Users can opt for a Thuraya SIM card The XT-PRO DUAL also offers naviga- ADVERTISING and their GSM card, or select any combi- tion capabilities through GPS, BeiDou, Ria Kontogeorgou: nation of SIM cards that meets their Glonass and Galileo, allowing users to Tel: +44 (0)20 7017 3401 requirements, the company says. share current coordinates, enter way- email: [email protected] The new handset has an ‘Always On’ points to navigate to specific positions capability that lets users alternate between using the electronic compass, and use EXHIBITION SALES calls, ensuring they are reachable on both position logging. Young Suk Park: Tel: +44 (0)20 7017 3409 the satellite and the terrestrial networks so The handset’s tracking capabilities email: [email protected] callers can be contacted on their GSM offer three different options, based on number while on an active satellite call, pre-set time intervals, distance travelled, PRODUCTION and vice versa. and detection of movement outside a pre- Vivian Chee: Tel: +44 (0)20 8995 5540 “The XT-PRO DUAL represents a major set geofence. The geofencing process uses email: [email protected] advance in convergence,” said Bilal any three to seven coordinates of the Hamoui, chief commercial officer at user’s choice, and all tracking functions EVENTS MANAGER The Thuraya XT-PRO DUAL Jo McGhee: Tel: +44 (0)20 7017 3412 Thuraya. are user-activated and cannot be initiated email: [email protected] “This is the world’s best satellite phone. or controlled by external entities.

MARKETING Gabi Weck: Tel: +44 (0)20 7253 2700 email: [email protected] Real Consulting have announced that head of marketing communications for its they have agreed a Global Strategic Maritime business unit, reporting to DIGITAL SHIP SUBSCRIPTIONS Alliance, combining Real Consulting’s Inmarsat chief marketing officer Chris €180 per year for 7 issues technology consulting service with McLaughlin. Mr Warner most recently contact [email protected], SetelHellas’ maritime communications spent seven years with ShipServ, where or phone Stephan Venter on: technology products, particularly with he was director for marketing and business +44 (0)20 7017 3407 regard to integrating SAP HANA and SAP development, and was previously head of Lumira technologies with Setel’s SeeMBox- the digital maritime and professional divi- DIGITAL SHIP V Open Digital Platform. sion at Lloyd’s List. CYBER RESILIENCE FORUM Global Eagle Entertainment has Inmarsat has also appointed Jason Rotterdam appointed Elcome International as Smith to the role of chief operations officer 31 January 2017 sales and service representative in the (COO). Mr Smith joins Inmarsat from Middle East for its EMC service line of Rolls-Royce, where he was most recent- DIGITAL SHIP maritime VSAT. Elcome will employ its ly president of the group’s nuclear busi- MARITIME CIO FORUM network of engineering and service facili- ness, and has previously worked with Cyprus ties across the Middle East and South Asia AWE and British Nuclear Fuels. 14 February 2017 Mark Woodhead, KVH to install, commission, provision and serv- Thuraya has announced a new service ice EMC’s Ku-band VSAT systems, as well partner agreement in Bulgaria with NBS Mark Woodhead has been named to the as providing shipboard service and satel- Maritime. Headquartered in Varna, the Printed by newly created position of KVH senior vice lite airtime plans. largest city and key port on the Bulgarian The Manson Group Ltd president for training and content, effective Inmarsat has hired Mark Warner as Black Sea Coast, NBS Maritime will pro- Reynolds House, 8 Porters' Wood on the first of January 2017. This will vide support for the Black Sea region. Valley Road Industrial Estate St Albans, Hertz AL3 6PZ, U.K. include succeeding Nigel Cleave as head of Jan-Arie Sepers has returned to Radio KVH group company Videotel, following Holland, where his career began 26 No part of this publication may be repro- the planned decision by the Videotel CEO years ago, to take on the role of general duced or stored in any form by any to retire at the end of the year. manager of Radio Holland Netherlands. mechanical, electronic, photocopying, Intellian has appointed Sam McKee as He returns to the company after an extend- recording or other means without the vice president of Americas sales. Mr McKee ed period working at Nokia. prior written consent of the publisher. Whilst the information and articles in had previously worked with Cobham SATCOM. The company has also Digital Ship are published in good faith www.intelliantech.com and every effort is made to check accura- appointed Edward Joannides as general www.setel-group.com cy, readers should verify facts and state- manager of its Americas business unit. www.kvh.com ments direct with official sources before Mr Joannides has previously worked at acting on them as the publisher can CMA CGM, Northern Navigation, www.geemedia.com www.elcome.com accept no responsibility in this respect. Inmarsat and most recently as program www.inmarsat.com Any opinions expressed in this maga- manager for satcom services at Northrup zine should not be construed as those Grumman. www.thuraya.com of the publisher. Mark Warner, Inmarsat www.radioholland.com Greek companies SetelHellas and

Digital Ship December 2016 / January 2017 page 2 p1-14:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 16:40 Page 3 p1-14:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 16:41 Page 4

SATCOMS Panasonic’s new Newtec modem to double bandwidth Maritime VoIP app launched www.panasonic.aero www.newtec.eu www.skybridge-corp.com

Panasonic Global Communications and Maritime mobile network provider, Newtec have unveiled a new high band- Skybridge, has launched VoiSea, a VoIP width satellite modem which will be app that offers access to free voice and HD offered to Panasonic customers with the video calls and messages at sea and other promise of being able to provide twenty remote locations, whilst keeping band- times the bandwidth of Panasonic’s cur- width consumption to a minimum. rent system. The low-bandwidth version of the app Versions of this new modem will be can reduce bandwidth consumption to 8 available across Panasonic’s mobility mar- kbps, and is being targeted at users on board kets in maritime, cruise ships, mega yachts ferries, cruise liners, ships and also aircraft. and river cruises, as well as in its air trans- “We are delighted to be able to intro- port and business aviation business. (l-r) Paul Margis of Panasonic, with Newtec’s Serge Van Herck duce a solution to what has become a real Developed in partnership by the two problem for both passengers and crew,” companies, the new modem is capable of up to 300 per cent more data than legacy China and across Asia. said Constantin Simeonidis, president and exceeding 400 Mbps, and is designed to Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) Under the agreement, CETC54 will use CEO of Skybridge. facilitate the increasing bandwidth coming systems. Newtec technology in its newest VSAT “VoiSea has been developed for mar- on stream over the next two years as High- “As we continue to optimise our second systems in China, while Newtec will be itime users and has taken into considera- Throughput Satellite (HTS) services are generation global communications net- able to lean on CETC54 to source RF and tion the specific challenges that ship own- rolled out and the Extreme-Throughput work, we are constantly looking for new antenna products, enabling the company ers face when dealing with restricted band- Satellite (XTS) system that Panasonic is pieces of critical technology that will to bring new ground segment systems to width on board. This new app completes currently designing is layered over enable our customers to take full advan- the market. our core maritime cellular service offering.” Panasonic’s existing global network. tage of HTS and XTS technology,” said “As a global player, our partnership with Should a user wish to call a number not The company says that this should Paul Margis, chief executive officer of CETC54 is a logical expansion of the success supported by the app, they may purchase expand network capacity from 2,300 MHz Panasonic Avionics Corporation. we have already seen in Asia and will allow credit directly through the Apple App today to 15,000+ MHz by 2017. “Newtec’s broadband modem, which is us to further expand, both in China and Store or Google Play. No activation codes The modem includes automated beam based on the innovative DVB-S2X stan- across Asia,” said Mr Van Herck. for top-ups or prepaid cards or vouchers switching and simultaneous data and dard and customised to our requirements, “The partnership is endorsed by our are required for the system, and if the crew video reception, and is also part of the allows us to access much larger blocks of long-standing partner ESA, as well as the member leaves to work on another vessel Newtec Dialog multiservice platform, frequency and better support high band- Belgian authorities, both of which have a they simply take their account with them. which supports verticals including avia- width platforms across all of our vertical long history of supporting industrial inno- VoiSea also offers photo and location tion and maritime. markets.” vations which lead to the development of sharing, free incoming calls and VoiSea The unit uses the dynamic bandwidth In related news, Newtec has also entered state-of-the-art products.” callback for use when there is almost no allocation system Mx-DMA, which into a strategic partnership with the 54th “We are confident that this partnership internet connection. Panasonic says marries SCPC-style con- Research Institute of China Electronics will do the same and enable us to provide “We are experiencing huge demand for nectivity with the dynamic bandwidth Technology Group Corporation (CETC54), our customers with even better satcom data consumption and this is only going to allocation capabilities of TDMA to deliver with the aim of strengthening its position in solutions, wherever they are in the world.” increase over the next decade with the rise of the mobile device,” said Mr Simeonidis. “With VoiSea, Skybridge has created an Nakilat rolls out Ku-band VSAT across fleet app that not only solves this problem at sea, but can be introduced into aviation www.geemedia.com allows service providers like GEE to tran- and other markets, such as land-based sition between older and new generation regions that are under-served in terms of Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) and part- satellites without requiring a change in cellular connectivity.” ner Radiance Communications have begun hardware or infrastructure, and Intelsat “The advent of High Throughput the deployment of maritime VSAT services says that existing customers that have Satellites will no doubt help these markets across Qatari LNG transport company transitioned from its earlier satellites to to offer increased Wi-Fi speed. However, Nakilat’s fleet of LNG and LPG carriers. operating on the Epic network have expe- given the massive rise in data demand, GEE’s EMC service line and Radiance rienced initial efficiency improvements of we believe that VoiSea will bridge the Communications, an EMC maritime serv- up to 165 per cent. considerable gap that exists in cellular ice partner and reseller, will supply global Using next generation hardware, the coverage today.” Ku-band VSAT connectivity and content company expects that potential efficiency to enable a full range of internet, data and gains of up to 330 per cent will be achievable. voice services for the vessels and crew. Nakilat vessles will be able to take “Our business model is based on help- The deal also includes a voice-over-IP advantage of Epic connectivity following ing our customers deliver an at-home (VoIP) system for the corporate network to GEE's new deal experience to millions of people moving remove the need to make satellite voice around the planet – on planes, cruise ships, calls, as well as VoIP crew calling and an vessel’s voyage, while at the same time superyachts and more. To do this, we need internet café system for the crew, with realise cost savings for the company.” a seamless, global and fully interoperable company access control. In related news, GEE also reports that it infrastructure that can be customised to To date, eight Nakilat ships have been has entered into a new expanded contract meet diverse and totally dynamic user equipped out of the company’s 63 LNG with Intelsat for the provision of global demands,” said Abel Avellan, president vessels. Radiance Communications is satcom connectivity services, including and chief strategy officer, GEE. responsible for installing and commission- significant capacity on Intelsat’s latest “The performance, scalability and glob- ing the systems, and is also providing EpicNG generation of satellites. al reach of Intelsat’s solutions will nicely shipboard service. The multi-year deal will utilise C- and complement our extensive global ecosys- “As an owner of one of the largest LNG Ku-band services on eight satellites from tem of satellite networks, enabling us to fleets in the world, staying connected Intelsat’s existing infrastructure as well as provide ubiquitous, broadband connectiv- while at sea is essential for Nakilat’s glob- two new EpicNG satellites, Intelsat 33e and ity and to shift resources quickly – critical al operations,” said Nakilat administration the yet-to-be-launched Intelsat 35e. in the mobility markets we serve.” director, Rashid Hamad Al-Marri. Overall, GEE now has contracted satel- “Intelsat EpicNG satellites help us “By utilising EMC’s VSAT technology, lite services on three out of the seven ensure our customers – and theirs – have we are able to ensure real-time information planned Intelsat EpicNG satellites, and 17 access to super reliable, high-speed broad- is accessible and that our personnel can Intelsat satellites in total. band whether they’re in the air, on land or The app offers calling via low stay in touch with their families during the Epic’s backward-compatible design at sea.” bandwidth connections

Digital Ship December 2016 / January 2017 page 4 p1-14:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 16:41 Page 5

Price increases Full speed & required ahead to commitments Iridium CertusSM

HOLD FAST, THE TIDE IS TURNING Sailing into high cost services you don’t need or long term contracts you don’t want is not your best course.

Superior capability and reliability, without prohibitive costs and contracts, will soon be within reach. Iridium CertusSM will usher in a new generation of maritime satellite communications, providing unparalleled throughput and FUNCTIONALITYFORALLVESSELS*OINTHEMANYLJEETSMAKING the change to Iridium®.

There’s smooth sailing ahead at www.IridiumCertus.com

Powering the Possibilities

www.IridiumCertus.com p1-14:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 16:41 Page 6

SATCOMS

Color Line expands communications agreement

www.telenormaritime.com lite and land-based mobile broadband from our network of global operators.” Telenor Maritime has expanded its existing The set-up will take advantage of communications systems agreement with Telenor Satellite’s THOR-7 Ka-band high Color Line to supply Wi-Fi and mobile throughput satellite coverage throughout phone services across the cruise and ferry Europe, which will be particularly advan- company’s entire fleet. tageous in the northern European regions “Telenor Maritime is a mobile company where Color Line operates. at sea, placing the mobile in the centre of “The agreement with Telenor Maritime all we do,” said Frode Støldal, CEO of means that we can offer full Wi-Fi cover- Telenor Maritime. age on our vessels with increased capacity “With our connectivity platform, we and bandwidth during Q1 2017,” said take full end-to-end responsibility for con- Marianne Gade Gørbitz, CIO of Color Line. necting the applications; the access layer “This enables further investments in with the onboard mobile and Wi-Fi sys- digital solutions to provide guests with the tems; and the backhaul from Ka/Ku satel- best experience on board.” The entire Color Line fleet will have upgraded connectivity services

Marlink adds 20 Mbps High Speed Zones North West Passage Ku-band service launched

www.marlink.com full VIP experience for guests.” www.internationaloceannetworks.com The coverage area will allow Ku-band In related news, Marlink has also www.huntercomm.net connections to be maintained with small Marlink has launched two new ‘High recently signed a new agreement for capac- stabilised antennas even up to a latitude of Speed Zones’ aimed at the leisure market ity on Intelsat’s upcoming Horizons 3e UK-based ION - International Ocean 75°, the company says. and charter companies with high band- satellite, an Epic-series High Throughput Networks, in partnership with North The service has been live since the start width demands, offering connectivity of Satellite (HTS) to be launched in the sec- American satellite company Hunter of August, with a superyacht owner cus- up to 20 Mbps on existing standard equip- ond half of 2018 to cover Asia and the Communications, has launched a new tomer navigating the NWP the first to ment in specially dedicated areas in the Pacific Ocean. iDirect Evolution Ku-band maritime satel- connect. Mediterranean and the Caribbean. Horizons 3e, a joint venture satellite lite network with coverage over the West, “The main advantage of having the The service can be accessed without owned by Intelsat and SKY Perfect JSAT East and North coast of Canada, to pro- connectivity throughout the entire NWP any changes to the technical setup Corporation, will be stationed at 169° East vide VSAT connectivity for vessels transit- journey was that the latest ice maps could onboard, and can be enabled within to deliver connectivity in the Asia-Pacific ing the Northwest Passage (NWP). be received instantaneously by the hours of request for temporary periods region. Captain enabling him as required. When combined with the already con- to navigate a safe In addition, Marlink says it can also tracted high-throughput broadband serv- journey through the deliver over 100 Mbps throughput to ves- ices provided by Intelsat 29e, Intelsat 33e NWP avoiding any sels using customised configurations with- and Intelsat 35e, Marlink will be able to ice,” explained Gavin in its Mediterranean and Caribbean High offer Intelsat EpicNG performance to its Rose, ION sales direc- Speed Zones. maritime customers traversing across all of tor. Bandwidth is delivered by several satel- the world’s busiest shipping routes. “Both crew and pas- lites in each region, to provide greater lev- “Our customers in the Pacific Ocean are senger welfare were els of availability and redundancy. increasingly demanding more connectivi- greatly enhanced “The superyacht sector is unique, with ty, and by adding additional Intelsat enabling high data very special requirements for internet con- EpicNG coverage to our network we can throughput of e-mails, nectivity and Marlink, in conjunction with meet the ship owner connectivity social networks and our satellite network operators and service demands,” said Mr Olsen. The coverage area for the new NWP Ku-band service video downloads.” provider partners, can now meet these “Our customers in the Atlantic depend service levels on standard configurations,” on Marlink to enable the ongoing digitisa- said Tore Morten Olsen, president mar- tion of ship operations, and we need to itime, Marlink. ensure connectivity always works to UASC rolls out at-sea TV to 44 vessels “Our new High Speed Zones will offer achieve ROI on ICT investments. Intelsat a new online experience available at sea EpicNG can help us to guarantee the same www.marlink.com high-end crew welfare facilities possible and we expect significant uptake, driven high level of connectivity to our entire cus- via our Sealink VSAT service,” said Tore by owners spending time on board and tomer base, regardless of where their oper- United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) Morten Olsen, president maritime, charter companies looking to deliver the ations take them.” has installed XChange Media, Marlink’s Marlink. at-sea television system, on 44 of its ves- “We are extremely pleased XChange sels to provide on-demand multi-lingual Media has been selected by UASC to content for crew via their personal deliver content to their crew. By delivering devices. high quality, multi-lingual news, sport UASC’s fleet is already equipped with and also TV, UASC can provide a more Marlink Sealink VSAT, which meant that relaxing environment for their hardwork- XChange Media could be deployed across ing crew members, in turn increasing job the fleet remotely, with the process com- satisfaction and employee retention.” pleted in less than a week. Daily updated content is provided to the ships, which can be shared among all crew members at no extra cost to them. The seafarers can use their own smart- phones, tablets, and laptops via Wi-Fi either in their cabins or in communal areas to access the service. Marlink says that UASC will not face extra airtime costs for the delivery of the content as it is separated from Sealink VSAT bandwidth, meaning that it will also have XChange Media can be accessed on a Marlink’s High Speed Zones no impact on contracted traffic speeds. variety of devices “XChange Media boosts the already

Digital Ship December 2016 / January 2017 page 6 p1-14:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 16:42 Page 7 p1-14:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 16:42 Page 8

SATCOMS

KVH expands content service with North P&I Club launches maritime NEWSlink Live cyber awareness campaign ingly sophisticated and the cyber threat at www.kvh.com more with NEWSlink TV.” www.becyberawareatsea.com sea poses significant security, safety and KVH has recently expanded its financial risks to shipping and offshore KVH reports that it is introducing NEWSlink portfolio with the launch of The North P&I Club in the UK is under- operations.” NEWSlink Live, a new digital content two new daily local language editions in taking a ‘Be Cyber Aware At Sea’ cam- The ‘Be Cyber Aware At Sea’ campaign service for crews to allow them to receive Japanese and Korean, with the range now paign to highlight the cyber threats facing was launched by cyber security trainer a wider range of news, sports and enter- totalling approximately 110 NEWSlink shipowners, aiming to raise awareness of JWL International and is supported tainment content on their personal editions in 23 languages delivered to sea- the increasing danger to international by industry organisations including devices. farers on more than 9,000 vessels around shipping, ports and offshore operations. CSO Alliance and North. Through NEWSlink Live delivers existing daily the world. According to North’s deputy loss pre- the campaign’s website, at NEWSlink print editions in a digital for- The Japanese and Korean editions are vention director Colin Gillespie, “More www.becyberawareatsea.com, it encour- mat, with free access to a 24/7 world news standard four-page newspapers delivered than 90 per cent of world trade, including ages the sharing of research data, best- feed, a ‘play-by-play’ live sports feed, and seven days a week, following the style of the global transportation of energy, is by practice cyber guidelines and educational additional supplementary feeds and most of the company’s other titles. Each sea. Our reliance on technology continues articles to help stakeholders understand media services. edition covers the daily political, financial, and we are now very much immersed in the challenges and threats the digital The service is enabled by a customised sporting and entertainment news stories the digital era. Ships are becoming increas- era brings to shipping and offshore mini-media player, supplied free of charge from those countries in the local language. operations. with every subscription. “Having a Japanese language daily edi- “Shipowners and crews are “NEWSlink Live creates an improved tion of NEWSlink is a significant step for- faced with many operational experience for seafarers and provides a ward,” said Hiroki Matsubara, CEO of demands and dealing effectively logical ‘next-step’ service to enhance Nautical Training Systems, KVH Media with cyber risks is yet another NEWSlink’s existing daily and weekly Group’s agent in Japan. challenge,” adds Mr Gillespie. newspaper service,” said Mark “Selling the full range of content, con- “Raising awareness of the Woodhead, KVH senior vice president for nectivity, and training services that KVH risks is the first step in reducing training and content. has to offer is made a lot easier when you the threat to shipping compa- “NEWSlink Live extends KVH’s com- can show a prospective client a newspaper nies’ commercial networks. mitment to provide the best content servic- in their local language.” Shipowners should now treat es at sea. We can now deliver news in All the titles are produced in NEWSlink cyber security as a board-level whatever format best suits the vessel and newsrooms located in Liverpool, Delhi, priority to minimise this emerg- its capabilities – NEWSlink print editions, and Manila, where a round-the-clock Various resources will be available ing threat to the business of the richer content of NEWSlink Live, or news monitoring service is employed to at the campaign website shipping.” KVH’s unique IP-MobileCast content add the most current information to every delivery service, which provides even edition. SAIT changes name to SpeedCast

www.speedcast.com vessels following a slew of acquisitions. “As we continue to expand our pres- SAIT Communications has now officially ence in the maritime sector, SpeedCast is changed its name to SpeedCast, formalis- well positioned to accelerate growth into 2017 EXTRA DISTRIBUTIONS ing the integration of the company follow- the low VSAT-penetrated market in ing its acquisition last year. Southern Europe,” said Athina Vezyri, SpeedCast acquired the Greek satcom vice president, maritime sales and MSS FEB/MARCH supplier in July 2015 to strengthen its pres- services - Europe, SpeedCast. CMA Connecticut - 20-22 March 2017 • iShipping Europe: Copenhagen - 1 & 2 March • Maritime CIO Forum Cyprus - 14 February • Digital Ship Cyber Challenge Rotterdam - 31 January ence in the Southern European maritime “The unrivalled experience of the former market, in Greece in particular, one of the SAIT Communications organisation in MSS APRIL•MAY largest maritime markets in the region. enables the company not only to gain a Sea-Asia 25-27 April 2017, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore • The Cyber Challenge Athens - 25 April • In addition to providing sales and sup- strong competitive edge in the maritime sec- Maritime CIO Forum Mediterranean, Marseille, 4 April • Maritime CIO Forum Hamburg - 3 May port, the SpeedCast Greek office will also tor, but also allows us to expand our MSS act as an R&D hub for new products and offerings to other sectors. This will be one of JUNE/JULY services, with the company’s global cus- the key growth engines and important con- Nor-Shipping 2017, May 30-June 2 • Maritime CIO Forum @Nor-Shipping - w/c 29 May tomer base now stretching to over 6,000 tributors to the success of SpeedCast.”

AUGUST/SEP Maritime CIO Forum Tokyo - 5 September • Maritime CIO Forum Rotterdam - 26 September Globalstar launches IoT module

OCTOBER www.globalstar.com of VAR and OEM mobile asset tracking Kormarine 2017 - October 24-27 • Maritime CIO Forum Singapore - 4 October • systems to monitor items and cargo. Maritime CIO Forum @Kormarine - 23 October • Digital Ship Cyber Challenge Hamburg - 19 October Globalstar is launching a new STINGR sys- The STX3 chip also transmits each mes- NOVEMBER tem, integrating the company’s STX3 sim- sage on an interval basis, which Globalstar Europort 2017 - 7-10 November, Rotterdam, The Netherlands • Digital Ship Athens - 1 & 2 November • Maritime plex satellite transmitter with a GPS says will increase the likelihood of reach- CIO Forum Bergen - 23 November receiver and a dual band antenna, to create ing multiple satellites, thereby improving a unit for use in Internet of Things (IoT)- reliability. DECEMBER/JAN 2018 based solutions for remote sensing, track- “STINGR allows us to offer a complete International Workboat Show, New Orleans, LA • Marintec China - 5-8 Dec 2017 ing and monitoring of assets like ships and tracking solution in a single module dra-

Dates/Locations are subject to change by Organiser. containers. matically reducing the design effort Globalstar says that it aims to involved in building compact and efficient Sales Manager – Magazine Advertising Editor – Digital Ship magazine Ria Kontogeorgou Rob O’Dwyer make the technology available to Value satellite communications devices,“ said +44 (0)207 017 3442 +44 (0)208 144 6737 Added Resellers (VARs) and Original Corry Brennan, simplex regional sales +44 (0)7815 481 036 [email protected] Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) manager at Globalstar. [email protected] to develop their own products for the “We look forward to working with our market. highly creative VAR and OEM partners The Globalstar simplex satellite net- across EMEA to develop satellite solu- work will be used to transmit IoT data tions based on STINGR that help organi- Search for The Digital Ship @TheDigitalShip Search for The Digital Ship from small devices, with the STINGR sations of all kinds leverage the power itself measuring 45 x 47 x 6.3mm allowing of IoT, especially those in the multi- For the latest updates on all of our events visit www.thedigitalship.com the module to be integrated into a range modal space.”

Digital Ship December 2016 / January 2017 page 8 p1-14:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 16:42 Page 9 p1-14:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 16:42 Page 10

SATCOMS Ericsson to expand maritime services with partnerships

www.ericsson.com technical and managerial resources. panies they will be able to accelerate the “SpeedCast provides us a flexible busi- development of new platforms and servic- Ericsson has agreed two new maritime ness model that fits our needs,” said John es to monitor and manage maritime assets technology partnerships, announcing Taxgaard, head of maritime, Ericsson. worldwide. that it will work with both SpeedCast “The possibility of joining their connec- “Ericsson is excited to partner with Pole and Pole Star on separate projects tivity platform and the resulting availabili- Star as we continue to offer innovative to expand its offering for the shipping ty is a great fit for our managed services solutions and services for the maritime sec- sector. solutions. We are very pleased to have tor,” said Mr Taxgaard. The deal with SpeedCast will see SpeedCast as our partner and we foresee “Our two companies share the same Ericsson leverage the satcom provider’s huge benefits and successful implementa- vision for the use of regulatory informa- global network and communication servic- tions for both sides.” tion and how this might be developed and es to support its customers, as part of its The deal with Pole Star meanwhile will leveraged by other industries.” end-to-end managed solutions for the also see the companies partner to develop “Initially, our partnership will focus shipping, port and terminal markets. and deliver new products, this time focus- on joint development and commercialisa- This will include the provision of tech- ing on fleet safety and security, as well as tion. For Ericsson, this partnership also nologies that can be used to create ‘con- environmental, and compliance-based underpins the strategy we have devel- nected vessel’ packages with the aim of business applications. oped over the past several years, and it is driving efficiencies across fleets, backed The new partners expect that by com- a key move forward in our own digital up by the two companies’ engineering, bining the innovation efforts of both com- transformation.” Ericsson headquarters in Sweden ITC Global improves Crew LIVE Intellian adds WorldView TVRO antenna

www.itcglobal.com “Leveraging Panasonic’s robust global www.intelliantech.com users to tune into different satellite TV network ensures service remains seamless services at the push of a button as vessels ITC Global has released an enhanced ver- and enables us to deliver the high speeds Intellian has launched a new dual-band, 3- move between global regions. sion of ITC Crew LIVE, a crew welfare that are critical for both corporate and axis satellite TV system, the s100HD Aptus, Intellian’s App for Android or service aimed at the offshore industry that crew network demands. In addition, users WorldView, including the company’s lat- Apple devices, allows the antenna to be offers communications and entertainment gain access to the best-in-class global live est generation LNB (Low Noise Block- operated from a smart device or PC. The options, including internet connectivity TV service through Panasonic’s renowned Down Converter) technology and required satellite television provider is and live TV. platform.” designed to resemble its existing GX100 selected from a drop down menu, prompt- Crew LIVE was first introduced to the Crew LIVE aims to allow companies to and v100 VSAT communications termi- ing the LNB to switch frequency automati- market in November 2015 and now has decouple their operational and crew net- nals. cally and lock on to the new target satellite. more than 11,500 registered users, who works on board, removing the security The 1 metre antenna system can simul- “The s100HD Worldview delivers will benefit from service enhancements risks associated with allowing remote taneously receive Ka-band and Ku-band strong performance and matches all including increased upload and download workers to stay connected across the same signals, with the WorldView allowing Intellian 1 metre satellite communications speeds, and dashboard management and link that handles corporate traffic, in par- solutions,” said Sam McKee, Intellian’s reporting features. ticular with the prevalence of the ‘bring VP of sales for the Americas. “Per crew member, we’re seeing a your own device’ approach. “This gives customers a whole new set monthly average of 930MB of data “We’re addressing personal connectivi- of options in how they outfit their vessel’s utilised, and a daily average of 100 ty needs for remote crews at the highest entertainment and communications pack- kbps download speed with about 20 calibre,” said Mr Spytek. age, eliminating the need to be locked individual users online simultaneously, “In the past year, fleet operators saw into any single service provider through based on a typical 120-member crew,” significant cost reductions as a direct result an expensive, closed network hardware said Joe Spytek, chief executive officer, of crew-funded service, while crew mem- investment.” ITC Global. bers took full advantage of the quality “Intellian’s systems are basically like “Performance data of onboard service entertainment amenities available.” unlocked smartphones. They work with from our 11,500 registered Crew LIVE Live streaming global TV services any provider, and now we have the TV accounts demonstrates the importance are delivered via parent company system to match.” of continual updates to the solution in Panasonic Avionics’ satcom network, The s100HD WorldView TVRO anten- order to scale with growing customer mirroring the services provided to the Intellian’s new s100HD na is available from January 2017. requirements.” aviation industry. Inmarsat partners with Vodafone on IoT integration

www.inmarsat.com broadband roaming services on our global network.” Inmarsat and mobile operator Vodafone The agreement is based on use of the have announced a roaming agreement Inmarsat I-4 global L-band satellite net- which will look to integrate technologies work, the same constellation used to from the two companies to enable interna- power FleetBroadband, to carry IoT traffic tional satellite and cellular roaming con- in areas not covered by cellular networks. nectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT). “Success in IoT demands a mix of dif- “Deploying satellite connectivity to ferent technologies for different applica- complement terrestrial networks for IoT tions. By adding satellite connectivity from applications changes the Internet of Things Inmarsat to the Vodafone portfolio we into the Internet of Everywhere,” said continue to deliver on our strategy to lead Rupert Pearce, CEO, Inmarsat. in managed IoT services,” said Vodafone “The growth in mission critical IoT director of IoT, Ivo Rook. applications is driving demand for connec- “The IoT is transforming businesses in tivity with unprecedented reach, range every sector and I am delighted we are and reliability on a global basis. This able to support more of our customers in Crew LIVE offers internet, TV and other options agreement marks a first for Inmarsat; taking advantage of all that this technolo- enabling a mobile operator to utilise gy has to offer.”

Digital Ship December 2016 / January 2017 page 10 p1-14:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 16:42 Page 11 p1-14:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 16:43 Page 12 p1-14:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 16:43 Page 13

Digital Ship SpeedCast buys Harris CapRock for $425m

Hong Kong-headquartered SpeedCast has been on an extended shopping spree that has now seen it acquire a dozen companies in just four years – and the latest deal, to buy American satcom provider Harris CapRock, is the biggest of them all

peedCast has entered into a defini- initial public offering of shares in the com- of the shipping sector in Europe, and real- tive agreement to acquire Harris pany on the Australian Securities ly gave us that presence and we started SSCapRock in a cash transaction val- Exchange that same August. getting invited to global tenders – and we ued at US$425 million, with the aim of In 2015, SpeedCast acquired Hermes started winning global tenders.” strengthening its position in the cruise and Datacomms, Geolink Satellite Services, ‘Going global’ has been a constant theme energy sectors. NewSat, SAIT Communications and ST in subsequent acquisitions in the maritime The combined entity will service more Teleport, and this year bought Florida- sector, grabbing territory where SpeedCast than 6,200 vessels, as well as hundreds of based NewCom International as well as had little or no existing presence. rigs and platforms, in addition to both WINS Limited (WINS), a European “We acquired, last year, SAIT companies’ enterprise and government provider of satellite communications and Communications to really have a strong customers. IT systems for the maritime sector that was market share and presence in the Greek This acquisition will also expand part of the Eutelsat Group. market, at a time when the penetration of SpeedCast’s global infrastructure to more Add Harris CapRock to the list and that VSAT is still low but we expect the adop- than 240 field engineers around the world, makes an even dozen acquisitions in four tion of VSAT to accelerate,” said to support customers in over 100 countries. years, eight of which have taken place Mr Beylier. SpeedCast says that the transaction is since the start of 2015, at a cost of around “We bought WINS and (partnered with) expected to complete by the end of Q1 2017 half a billion dollars – a remarkable spend- DHI (Eutelsat subsidiary DH-Intercom), subject to customary closing conditions, ing run by anybody’s standards. Digital which has a presence in Germany, the sec- including anti-trust and regulatory Ship spoke to SpeedCast CEO Pierre-Jean ond largest shipping market in Europe SpeedCast CEO Pierre-Jean Beylier approval. The company expects to gener- Beylier about his long term strategy, and after Greece, and an interesting presence in ate approximately US$24 million in annual how these new firms will combine to cre- the cruise segment, where we didn’t have “As we’ve grown through these acquisi- cost synergies within the first two years ate SpeedCast’s future. anything but is a segment where the tions we have learned and discovered after the deal is completed by consolidat- “The acquisitions have never been demand for bandwidth is skyrocketing.” along the way some of the scale benefits, ing, combining offices and reducing costs. about just building scale, each acquisition “Harris CapRock really makes us the sometimes beyond what we were expect- Funding will be partly underwritten by has been thought of as filling a gap in our strong leader in the cruise business, com- ing. We understand now what we can an equity raising on the Australian stock capabilities, in our approach to the market. bining Harris CapRock and WINS, which achieve by being a bigger player and will exchange (where SpeedCast is listed), The whole driver behind these acquisitions further strengthens our global scale servic- leverage that as we integrate Harris which aims to generate approximately has been revenue synergies,” he told us. ing the merchant shipping and offshore CapRock and SpeedCast.” AUS$295 million (around US$226 million). “Combing these companies with service vessel sector.” While Harris Caprock has specific SpeedCast will give us access to opportu- In short order Mr Beylier says that the strengths in its oil and gas and cruise busi- Shopping spree nities, to customers, to services, and allow acquisitions have allowed the company to ness, Mr Beylier points out that diversifica- The acquisition of Harris CapRock is just us to do a number of things that were not fill those gaps in its capabilities it had iden- tion is not one of the core goals of the the latest move in an extended shopping possible on our own. When you look at tified by buying up relationships and a SpeedCast acquisition strategy, as the com- spree that has seen Hong-Kong headquar- each of these acquisitions, Elektrikom was customer base, along with technologies pany was already present to some extent in tered SpeedCast purchase a host of compa- our very first maritime acquisition, that and infrastructure, moving from its home most of the sectors served. nies around the world over the last four was about acquiring a presence in Europe, in Asia-Pacific through Europe and the “I wouldn’t say it’s diversification years, starting with Australian Satellite where we had nothing.” Americas, and into Africa as well. because diversity is part of SpeedCast’s Communications (ASC) in December 2012. “We were doing very well in our mar- “It has not been driven by scale, though business, we’ve always been diversified That was followed by deals to acquire itime business in Asia Pacific, we had some as a result of these acquisitions we have and will continue to be diversified. It’s not Elektrikom Satellite Service in The partners in Europe but we didn’t have a obviously reached a significant scale and like we were focused on one or two indus- Netherlands in January 2013, and presence, we were not seen as being a glob- with Harris CapRock we have taken that to tries and had to diversify. We are making Australia’s Pactel International in April of al player, which meant we were not invit- a different level where we will have a scale acquisitions in sectors where we are active the same year, before adding SatComms ed to global tenders. Elektrikom Satellite advantage over our competition,” and where we want to strengthen our posi- Australia in May 2014 shortly before an Services was based in Rotterdam, the heart he added. tion,” he told us. “Cruise, I must say, is a diversification within our maritime business. We were looking at this segment from a distance and we decided with the WINS acquisition to diversify into cruise, and obviously Harris CapRock has augmented that significantly.” “We were in energy, we’ve been in energy for a long time, but we really decid- ed to build the global energy business two years ago.” Part of that process involved the recruit- ment of former Harris CapRock energy division president Keith Johnson, who left the American company in 2013 and joined SpeedCast in 2014 following the expiry of a non-compete clause in his previous contract. “I asked him to come and build the global energy business. One of the first things we did as part of that was to acquire an energy focused company, Hermes Datacomms, to give us the credibility of having serviced oil and gas companies for The acquisition will extend SpeedCast’s reach into the cruise sector, with Harris CapRock customers including ships in the many years across some of the most diffi- Carnival Cruise Lines fleet such as the Sapphire Princess cult places in the world, so customers

Digital Ship December 2016 / January 2017 page 13 p1-14:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 16:43 Page 14

SATCOMS

could see that we had done it many times most of the others are something that we within one country or sub-region or tial other M&A opportunities. There are before,” said Mr Beylier. have been working on at least a year in region, but when it comes to global cus- some out there that we believe are valuable “We grew organically, and energy is a advance, sometimes more.” tomers I think it will continue to consoli- and can be executed upon, and M&A sector where I think there’s a lot to do, “They are companies that we liked, that date. It has already consolidated quite a growth will continue to be part of our there’s big potential. Of course, there’s a are complementary to what we do, and we bit, when I look at tenders today for global strategy. If I take a three-year view then cyclicality that you need to play with, but try to establish a dialogue far in advance, fleets, you don’t have that many compa- yes, I think there’s a good chance you will the satellite services industry is a fantastic even if they are not for sale or the owners nies going for them.” see us making some acquisitions.” sector to service that because satellite serv- are not interested yet. It’s about convincing “When you look at our communications In the meantime, while the ink is drying ices is very critical to them. That’s where them that we can achieve things together to the market, given that we’re a public on the $425 million Harris CapRock con- quality and reliability make even more of a that we both can’t achieve on our own, that company, we have as part of our vision to tract and integration projects begin, difference and SpeedCast has built a name we can do something bigger.” be one of the top three players in maritime, SpeedCast will look to find ways to max- for that.” Being part of ‘something bigger’ is a and the top three in energy as well – imise the value that can be generated by its “So it’s a sector where we wanted to be useful benefit when it comes to operating among the top three globally. With the newly expanded workforce. in it in a big way. Harris CapRock came as in the maritime satcom market, when it acquisition of Harris CapRock we’re “It’s obviously a very exciting acquisi- a logical evolution of that.” comes to the ability to bid for global con- achieving all of these objectives.” tion for us, I think the complementarity tracts as already mentioned, or in leverag- That ambition to remain as one of the between the two companies is amazing. Getting bigger ing buying power when purchasing capac- biggest players in the maritime satcom sec- There have been consolidation events in The method of choosing which companies ity from satellite operators. tor, and to other sectors globally, means our industry between large service to acquire during this extended supermar- Consolidation in the satcom provider that SpeedCast will not retire the cheque- providers over the last few years, but we ket sweep has, for the most part, been based sector has continued for a number of years, book just yet, and may pursue further have never found an opportunity where on long term examination of specific capa- with SpeedCast responsible for no small acquisitions over the next few years to con- both the strategic logic was very strong bilities rather than pouncing on opportuni- part of that, and Mr Beylier believes the solidate its position and extend its reach and the financial logic was very strong. ties that have arisen due to specific market likelihood is that the market in the near even further. Here we found both, and more,” said circumstances, according to Mr Beylier. future will be for the most part controlled “We have a growth strategy that com- Mr Beylier. “They were not all identified four and a by a small handful of large global players. bines organic growth and acquisitive “I think the combination of the two half years ago when we started, but four “Consolidation in the maritime sector, growth, and that will continue to be the companies not only has capabilities, a and a half years ago we had a pipeline with yes I think it will continue to consolidate. case for quite some years to come. There global footprint and a scale that is second several of them and that pipeline was built When it comes to global fleets, global cus- are other things we are interested in, there to none in our industry, but on top of that upon. Most of the companies we have tomers, it will – and it already largely has are great companies out there that I’d love I think there are some amazing people in acquired, they have been on our radar come to that point – it will indeed end up to see contributing to SpeedCast’s capabil- both organisations.” screen for some time, sometimes one year, being a competition between four or five ities,” said Mr Beylier. “We’re in a service business that comes sometimes two, sometimes three as part of global players which will have the credibil- “But short term we will focus on the down to people, so I’m very excited about a pipeline we maintain of companies that ity, capabilities and global footprint to sup- integration of Harris CapRock. There may the close to 1,200 people that are part of we follow and are interested in, and port fleets on a global basis,” he told us. be small acquisitions happening if there that group, because I think we’re going to believe that can contribute to filling gaps in “I think you will still see some fragmen- are opportunities that arise, but right now do great things together. We’re very well our approach to the market,” he explained. tation with local players in certain markets we’ll be focused on the integration.” positioned to serve customers across the “NewSat went into administration so and certain regions that will cater for “Once that’s done and we start seeing different industries we are servicing – that was a very opportunistic move, but smaller fleets or smaller customers, locally the benefits of that we will explore poten- starting with maritime.” DS

Is Comtech Onboard?

Service providers and end users globally rely on our ground equipment to support a variety of applications for the oil & gas, cruise and cargo sectors. From VSAT networking platforms, satellite modems and integrated network and bandwidth management to rugged frequency converters and amplifiers, our solution suite features a unique blend of horsepower, efficiency and intelligence.

With Comtech onboard, you can meet your customers’ increasing throughput demands, improve quality of experience, and prepare for the future.

Contact us today. We are ready to evaluate your network configuration and traffic mix to determine how our latest innovations can benefit your upcoming satcom infrastructure projects.

+1.480.333.2200 [email protected] www.comtechefdata.com

Digital Ship December 2016 / January 2017 page 14 p15-23:p1-14.qxd 29/11/2016 14:00 Page 1 p15-23:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 17:00 Page 2

SOFTWARE

Dubai signs maritime innovation agreement LR buys maintenance data software company

with DNV GL www.lr.org dards in relation to safety, but enables improved economic performance by elimi- www.dmca.ae “Innovation, research and technology Lloyd’s Register (LR) has acquired RTAMO nating unnecessary waste.” www.dnvgl.com are certainly essential factors for DMCA to Ltd, a software consultancy based in RTAMO technology is cloud-based, provide an internationally recognised Aberdeen in the UK, which provides data- and used to support all phases of asset life Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA) maritime cluster and enhance the sector’s driven maintenance optimisation systems – design, operation, tail end life and has signed an agreement with DNV GL to efficiency and global competitiveness. In designed to reduce costs for asset owners. decommissioning. The evidence-based collaborate on a range of maritime innova- navigating through this path, it is impor- Recent maintenance optimisation proj- system is also sensitive to commercial fac- tion initiatives to bolster the Dubai maritime tant that DMCA establishes the right tools ects conducted using RTAMO on more tors such as commodity price, mean time sector’s technological capacity, in areas such and methods in order to manage the than 20 offshore facilities have delivered to failure and cost of planned versus cor- as smart shipping, digitalisation, Big Data impact as well as the opportunities that savings in maintenance costs of up to 30 rective maintenance. and real time information management. new technologies present to us.” per cent, the company says. Projects to The RTAMO acquisition is the latest The agreement also looks to promote “We are very positive that DMCA’s col- date have included Maersk, BG Group and investment by LR to drive data and digital maritime innovation programmes in Dubai, laboration with DNV GL is the right next Shell. innovation solutions for clients. In June the UAE and in other parts of the Middle step to push Dubai’s drive in promoting the “At this critical economic time of low oil 2016, LR announced its collaboration with East, while encouraging the involvement of Emirates’ position in the global maritime prices, asset owners are seeking better Silicon Valley-based greenfence, a platform local universities, higher education insti- map and soon play a leading role in pro- ways to maximise value. RTAMO - Real technology for Testing, Inspection and tutes, research organisations and other gov- viding a sustainable platform for the global Time Adaptive Maintenance Optimisation Certification (TIC). ernment bodies in the region. maritime sector. With DNV GL’s compe- - enables this to be done safely and sus- “This is an important step in building “DMCA’s collaboration with DNV GL is tence and extensive experience, we believe tainably by enabling asset owners and global software solutions that create value part of our long-term vision for Dubai to Dubai is on track in establishing a sustain- operators to tailor their maintenance strat- for our customers. We’re bringing together become a world-class maritime gateway,” able maritime environment following high- egy and preventive maintenance plans to all of LR’s existing commercial software said Amer Ali, executive director of DMCA. ly-regarded international standards.” suit their specific commercial needs,” said activities to provide a suite of integrated Murray Douglas, Lloyd’s Register’s strate- solutions,” said Nial McCollam, LR’s chief gic project director. technology officer. “Using this software-enabled service to “Our global technology and innovation manage our customers’ maintenance bur- team is also developing a range of innova- den will significantly reduce costs while tive data and digital solutions, such as demonstrating safe and responsible opera- remote presence inspections, cyber-securi- tions. Company directors are very aware ty, additive manufacturing and asset life- of the need to operate their assets safely cycle management, harnessing and devel- and sustainably.” oping the capabilities within our Global Amer Ali, executive director of DMCA, and Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, CEO, DNV GL Maritime, “Now, the RTAMO approach not only Technology Centres in Singapore and sign the agreement demonstrates the highest possible stan- Southampton.” Port of LA to pilot container data sharing portal

www.getransportation.com help strengthen the competitiveness of our portal to partners across the supply chain. time to track inbound cargo to better serve ports and supply chain stakeholders through “To keep pace with the rapidly chang- vessels, optimise cargo movement and The Port of Los Angeles and GE the adoption of digital solutions," said US ing shipping landscape, operations at our improve the predictability and reliability Transportation are partnering to pilot a Secretary of Commerce, Penny Pritzker. ports must evolve,” said Gene Seroka, of the supply chain. new port information portal which aims to “The innovative steps being taken in Los executive director, Port of Los Angeles. Port and cargo stakeholders already digitise maritime shipping data and make Angeles will demonstrate the value of new “Digital solutions that enable supply manually tested this advance exchange of it available to cargo owners and supply IT systems to ports and shippers, and help chain partners to receive a ship’s cargo data during the largest-ever container ship chain operators. catalyse the voluntary implementation of information well in advance of arrival, like call at the port last December. Cargo data used in the two-month pilot these systems at ports throughout the US. with the digital portal we are envisioning “Our partnership with the Port of Los project will include filtered information We commend the Port of Los Angeles and with GE Transportation, are a critical key Angeles will unlock the power of big data from the US Customs and Border GE for launching this visionary initiative.” to optimising US cargo efficiency and trade at one of the largest ports in the world and Protection’s Automated Commercial The pilot project is seen as a first step competitiveness.” demonstrate how digital can enhance and Environment (ACE) system, which should toward improving collaboration and coor- Ultimately, the goal of the port informa- improve operations,” said Jamie Miller, allow for better planning in servicing ultra- dination among the many stakeholders tion portal is to improve data-flow president and CEO, GE Transportation. large container vessels. involved in the transport of containers, between cargo owners, shipping lines and “This initial pilot will generate the insights “Over the past year, the US Department improving supply chain performance by other stakeholders so that port and termi- to build a smarter, more efficient supply of Commerce has redoubled our efforts to delivering supporting data through a single nal operators have an extended window of chain moving forward.” Star software for Symphony Shipping

www.mirtac.nl implement the software on two new build DP2 vessels, Symphony Performer and Symphony Shipping has signed a contract Symphony Provider, to be delivered in with MirTac for the provision of the Star December 2016 and April 2017. fleet management software system, and “In constructive meetings our goals and related services, to manage operations such expectations versus the capabilities of the as maintenance, purchasing and QHSSE. Star software and MirTac’s services were Symphony Shipping will initially extensively examined,” said Daan Boterman, QHSSE manager at Symphony Shipping. “With our combined knowledge of on board technical operations and safety translated into the Star software, we will optimise operational efficiency and enhance quality and safety management.” Vessel administration tasks, such as bunkering data management, voyage planning, crew planning and cash book control will be performed using the soft- Symphony Performer will have ware, with a fleet dashboard and manage- The platform aims to streamline ultra large container ship operations at the port the software installed ment reports to provide decision support.

Digital Ship December 2016 / January 2017 page 16 p15-23:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 17:00 Page 3 VDR’S GO VIRAL...

NETWAVE’S NEXT GENERATION OF VDR’S ALLOW VESSEL’S LONG TERM PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION FROM THE CLOUD

ALREADY MORE THAN 5,500 VESSELS RELY ON US AND THIS NUMBER IS GROWING EVERY DAY

NW-6880 NW-6860-1000 Float Free NW-6000 Fixed Capsule Capsule NW-6010 Core Module Bridge Control Unit (BCU)

NW-6022 NW-6020 PoE indoor NW-6021 PoE outdoor Power Module Microphones Microphones NW-64xx Data Acquisition Unit (DAQ) NW-6060 VHF interface

NW-6020 PoE indoor NW-6021 PoE outdoor Microphones Microphones

Our newly developed NW-6000 VDR has been Type Approved with BSH for MSC.333(90), based on Lightweight Ethernet (IEC61162-450) provi- ding the following benefits: • The only VDR with the latest network technology allowing efficient inter- facing with networked systems • Largest worldwide service network with more than 1100 local engineers in 160 ports • Remote Monitoring reducing on-board attendances • Developed with Cost of Ownership in mind • Largest installed base worldwide • Stock available in key ports for urgent deliveries • Experienced in replacing any Brand (S)VDR installation • Replacement kits for any VDR brand available on request

YOU ARE INVITED TO VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR YOUR QUICK QUOTATION

Netwave Systems BV Blauw-roodlaan 100 T +31 (0)88 - 11 81 500 2718 SJ Zoetermeer E [email protected] The Netherlands I www.netwavesystems.com p15-23:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 17:00 Page 4

SOFTWARE Data management system installed on Equinox Eagle

www.setel-group.com single onboard server, was completed in three days by one engineer attending Setel Hellas reports that it has completed the ship. the roll out of its SeeMBox-V vessel data This took place following an earlier on management system on board the vessel board technical survey to define the instal- Equinox Eagle, for Greek shipmanagement lation project requirements, and the prepa- company Equinox Maritime. ration of the SeeMBox-V database system The new system will be used to capture, on shore before delivery to the ship to monitor, record and transmit fuel con- ensure it was configured for the company’s sumption and navigation data, as well as vessel-office data exchanges. data from other systems, such as the main “The deployment of SeeMBox-V engine, PMI and torque meter. enabled our company to build a robust, The SeeMBox-V will also assist the com- highly secure and scalable infrastructure The Equinox Eagle, newly installed with the SeeMBox-V pany in integrating manual data entry to for the delivery of vital information on the allow for noon day report automation vessel’s operations so to support effective (NRA). decision making and sustainable opera- “The SeeMBox-V innovative platform, combine successfully advanced data Installation of the system, which tion,” said Leontios Pitaoulis, Equinox being customisable and configurable acquisition technology and information includes two signal acquisition units and a Maritime. based exactly on our needs, managed to integration.” ABB to work with Wuchang LPG operator signs Seafarer support Ship Building on digital systems up for ShipServ website launched

www.abb.com working in the icebreaking and cruise sec- www.shipserv.com www.seafarerhelp.org tors is particularly relevant to China’s ABB has signed an agreement with ship builders,” said Alf Kare Adnanes, LPG vessel operator Navigator Gas The International Seafarers Welfare and Wuchang Ship Building Group to work head of ABB’s marine and ports business has signed up to use ShipServ for all Assistance Network (ISWAN), an organi- together on the development of digital sys- in China. its procurement activities, the companies sation promoting seafarer welfare, has tems for ‘greener’ ships. “We are excited about the benefits this report. launched a new website called The companies aim to combine ABB’s agreement will bring to both ABB and The London-headquartered shipping SeafarerHelp to provide a free, confiden- experience in power and propulsion and Wuchang Ship Building Group.” company recently took its ship manage- tial helpline service to seafarers and their maritime software, with Wuchang Ship Wuchang Shipbuilding Group is an ment activities in-house, based out of its families all over the world. Building Group’s vessel construction affiliate of China Shipbuilding Industry Polish office in Gdynia, and is now man- ISWAN is run by a multilingual team capabilities. Corporation, founded in 1934 and now aging three vessels from Poland. offering 24-hour assistance year-round, “Chinese shipyards are diversifying employing more than 11,000 people at its 6 The procurement tools and services who have helped nearly 10,000 seafarers their portfolios and ABB’s long history of million square metre facility. available to Navigator Gas include of 86 different nationalities in the last year. ShipServ’s SpotSource and Supplier The organisation hopes to build on those Recommendations service. The LPG oper- numbers through the greater visibility that ator will also use ShipServ’s range of pur- will be offered by the web portal. chasing KPIs based on the trading activi- The website can be viewed in nine dif- ties of over 9,000 vessels. ferent languages and provides a number Navigator Gas is connected to ShipServ of ways for seafarers and their families to via its ABS NS5 enterprise software suite. get in touch, including by telephone, “ShipServ allows us to automate our e-mail, Skype, text message and a Live entire procurement platform and allows Chat feature. us to get a full overview of our procure- ISWAN’s own data shows that seafar- ment metrics in one simple interface,” said ers have preferred to contact the helpline Joanna Dziegielewska, senior technical by mobile devices over the internet, so the buyer for Navigator Gas. website is optimised for mobile use. Officials from both companies were present for the cooperation “We can also make savings through its Seafarers can also access general infor- agreement signing ceremony in Helsinki new spend management tools.” mation about common issues raised to the SeafarerHelp team via the site, along with downloadable resources providing guid- ECO Insight expanded with new analytics capabilities ance on health and wellbeing. In addition, ISWAN's Seafarer Centre www.dnvgl.com systems). And we use this to provide more MRV (Monitoring, Reporting and Directory is available on the website, transparent and actionable data reporting Verification) emission reports, in anticipa- which helps seafarers find the nearest DNV GL has added new analytical and and analytics.” tion of the EU regulation’s full entry into facilities for various amenities in port. reporting features to its fleet performance The ECO Insight partner network, force in 2018. management system ECO Insight, with the working with DNV GL on data integra- Vessel positions are updated hourly aim of supporting shipowners in manag- tion, now includes 14 companies, with and speed variations from a target value ing a greater volume of vessel data on a engine performance firm Tekomar the are similarly checked each hour, with flex- more frequent basis. most recent addition. ible time lines (hours, days, weeks, voyage “Our user community has rapidly Other improvements to the software legs, voyages) able to be selected across the grown into the largest single performance include the addition of an electronic whole system. management group in the shipping indus- owner-charterer cooperation contract The hull degradation computation and try, and the data and feedback we are get- option to DNV GL’s own voyage display module has been improved, as ting from them has been a great inspira- reporting system Navigator Insight, have auxiliary engine usage analytics. tion,” said Torsten Büssow, DNV GL’s where the data released to each party Finally, a fuel quality module has been head of performance management. can be tailored to reflect contractual made available to display the impact of “We have directed their input into responsibilities. fuel quality on performance. product development and innovation Reports on a greater range of opera- A new alert service has been added to which has resulted in many new and tional data can now be generated, such as the software to highlight key fleet per- enhanced features.” port logs, and consumer usage from sys- formance metrics on a daily basis, with a “The last year has proven that ECO tems like cargo pumps and inert gas gen- monthly fleet performance review report Insight can integrate sensor and auto-log- erators. DNV GL says that the system is available from DNV GL’s Performance The website offers a range of ways ging data (including data from third party also already able to supply fully automatic Support Centre on request. to get in touch

Digital Ship December 2016 / January 2017 page 18 p15-23:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 17:00 Page 5

It matters to us

We strive to supply Safety Through Education because

well-educated navigators with in-depth knowledge about the equipment onboard is an indispensable factor to ensure safety at sea. We have arranged various training courses that combine both theoretical and practical training on navigation and communication equipment. At the end of the day, it is our vested interest, for we would like to contribute to global maritime safety. It matters to us all. FURUNO ELECTRIC CO., LTD. www.furuno.com p15-23:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 17:00 Page 6

SOFTWARE

Seagull Maritime adds social media Höegh LNG to use BASS for HSSEQ

awareness course www.bassnet.no tion that we can rely on for the future, and we have found the right fit,” said Øivin www.seagull.no and establishing how it might be Höegh LNG has chosen to implement the Iversen, deputy head of fleet management improved have become integral aspects of BASSnet Fleet Management System to at Höegh LNG. Seagull Maritime has collaborated with risk management.” manage the HSSEQ operations for its float- “The comprehensive and superior func- maritime incident response company MTI The aim of the new e-learning module ing storage and regasification units tionality, the technology of BASSnet and the Network to produce onboard and online is to raise awareness of correct social (FSRU), including safety and risk manage- strong customer community of reputable training content on social media awareness. media practice among both shore based ment processes, audit and inspection man- shipping companies made us select BASS.” MTI Network offers a variety of social personnel and seafaring staff, with advice agement, document management, certifi- As part of the system, Höegh LNG will media services such as training, guidelines on how social media should be used dur- cates, work & rest hours, as well as port also use the BASSnet Port Management and strategy, and has worked with Seagull ing a crisis and the potential reputational management and related reporting. module. Consisting of Ports Guide and in producing a new e-learning and video and commercial risks ‘innocent’ posts can “We placed a lot of importance on Port Forms sub-modules, it provides data module that explores the impact a seem- pose to a company. ensuring that we get a partner and solu- for more than 12,000 ports and terminals, ingly innocent social media post can have “Through social media crews can inad- 8,000 tanker berths and over 26,000 port when it involves a safety or security inci- vertently become on-scene-reporters when service providers. dent on board. a safety or security incident is taking place “We are very proud to get Höegh LNG “Social media has infiltrated every on board,“ said Martin Baxendale, manag- as a customer. Focusing on FSRU, they are aspect of both our personal and profes- ing director, MTI Network. operating a very sophisticated fleet in one sional lives,” said Roger Ringstad, manag- “Crew are often unaware of the reach of of the most challenging maritime environ- ing director, Seagull Maritime. their pictures and status updates, and ments,” said Haakon Dalan, BASS’ vice “People have gone from being con- don’t consider the consequences they president of sales. sumers to also being producers of media. might have if taken out of context. It’s “In this area, you simply cannot take Social media reaches millions of people important that we provide education and The software will manage a range of lightly HSSEQ and we are pleased to get globally. Analysing your online presence, guidelines as to what is and is not appro- health and safety related issues their confirmation that BASSnet satisfies addressing potentially damaging coverage priate to post online.” for the LNG carrier their needs.” Veson adds 10 new shipping companies Coastal Shipping installs MPMWin to IMOS user list on product tanker

www.veson.com is offered as either an installed application, www.marinesoftware.co.uk Software MPMWin software to consolidate or as a cloud-based hosted service as the on-board PMS systems across the fleet,” Maritime software provider Veson IMOSLive. The company’s Veslink service, UK-based Marine Software reports that it said Coastal Shipping, in a statement. Nautical reports that it has added ten new also cloud-based, acts as an online hub for has completed the supply of its MPMWin - “The e-mailed updates to the office clients to its user community over the last the collection, analysis, and sharing of Marine Planned Maintenance system to server are a major advantage to our opera- five months, agreeing deals with shipping maritime data. Coastal Shipping Limited, for implementa- tions considering our vessels are often in companies across the world in a range of Veson says that its systems today have tion on the shipping company’s latest ves- remote locations in the Canadian Arctic.” trades, including dry bulk, wet, and chem- nearly 8,000 users at more than 200 ship- sel, Sten Fjord. “Several crew were familiar with this ical. ping companies. Presently trading in the Canadian software and it’s excellent for scheduling on Cheng Xin Shipmanagement, DCC Bulk “We take pride in evolving our prod- Arctic, the 2004-built chemical/oil prod- board maintenance. It has proven a valu- Transport, Emirates National Oil ucts and meeting the business require- ucts tanker sails under the Canadian flag, able tool for marine and engineering super- Company Singapore, and Galeon ments of companies,” said Agya Garg, vice and now joins other tanker vessels intendents to track maintenance on board.” Navigation, all based in Singapore, are president, product, Veson Nautical. Alsterstern, Havelstern, among the new customers, along with “This evolution is not limited to func- Travestern and Nanny, in Windrose SPS and Trammo AG tional solutions, as many organisations operating with MPMWin. (Commodities Division) in Switzerland, have also come to rely upon Veson’s hosted Established in 1973, and Metalloinvest in the United Arab services as a way to control costs, improve Coastal Shipping Limited Emirates. performance, and scale their businesses.” operates a fleet of oil In the Northeast USA region Veson has “Our client partners are increasingly tankers providing fuel sup- also added Chembulk Tankers, Interlake interested in the benefits of cloud comput- ply services to the Steamship Company, and Rand Logistics ing and hosted access, which eliminate Canadian Arctic and subsidiaries Grand River Navigation and capital IT investment and provide quick Labrador Coastal Ports, Lower Lakes Towing as customers of its accessibility over the web. This year more while also conducting software package. than 70 per cent of new clients have opted additional business on Veson’s flagship product, IMOS for IMOSLive and Veslink, rather than international routes. Sten Fjord has installed the MPMWin (Integration Maritime Operations System) self-hosting IMOS on-premise.” “We chose the Marine planned maintenance system DIABOS launches electronic cash system ZEABORN and Carl Büttner implement Hanseaticsoft

www.diabos.biz payroll/contractor payments using www.hanseaticsoft.com only a company-wide database and com- Mastercard cards assigned to the crew, munication platform but can also (inte- Port call management company DIABOS allowing for cash remittances as well as the Hanseaticsoft has added two more ship- grate) all department-specific applications has added a new Pay-Master system to its transfer of bulk monthly salary payments ping companies to its list of German cus- in one solution,” said Johann Scharmberg, portfolio of services, which aims to and crew bonus payments via the crew cards. tomers, with ZEABORN Shipping and CEO of ZEABORN Shipping. replace traditional cash remittances to “Several years ago, DIABOS envisioned Carl Büttner, both based in Bremen, sign- “Additionally, all users of the CFM in vessel captains. the need for a dramatic payment and ing up to use the Hanseaticsoft Cloud Fleet our company are convinced by the simple Working in partnership with Tramonex application infrastructure shift to manage Manager (CFM). operability as well as the attractive appear- and ICS Payments, the service will offer an the pain points experienced by vessel own- ZEABORN Shipping has already com- ance. Finally, a software solution for ship- electronic option to make payments to ers when managing the cash to master pleted its implementation of the system, ping companies that gives pleasure to Masters using Mastercard. process,” said Imran Vohra, chief execu- covering the whole range of CFM modules work with.” Typical current cash to Master remit- tive officer and president, DIABOS. including Crewing, Inspection, Carl Büttner meanwhile has also com- tances via port agents can suffer from “Over the years, we have done exten- Disturbance and Circulars. The company- pleted its roll-out of Hanseaticsoft’s issues such as restrictions on currency or sive research, made strategic technology wide introduction of the new Purchase Charting module from the CFM package. the amounts that can be sent, as well as investments, as well as collaborated with module is planned to be completed by the The software deal forms part of the additional cash delivery costs which can leading service providers in order to end of this year. shipping company’s ongoing digitalisation reach 5 to 10 per cent. evolve our services and offer the DIABOS “The Cloud Fleet Manager can score strategy, in accordance with what it calls The Pay-Master system instead supports Pay-Master solution.” with a variety of advantages. It creates not its ‘Fit for the Future’ programme.

Digital Ship December 2016 / January 2017 page 20 p15-23:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 17:00 Page 7

* Get the most reliable Internet at sea… ..at 30% savings

2016 SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS PRODUCT AWARD

14-time Award Winner Give your business a All bundles include: competitive edge with • Award-winning TracPhone VIP-series SATCOM system ® TracPhone VIP-series • 5 GB/month at speeds up to 4 Mbps Advantage Bundles • Global connectivity • News delivered daily via IP-MobileCast™ 3 advanced SATCOM solutions starting • Secure myKVH™ portal management tools as low as $1,399 per month • Extended 5 year warranty and global support

Check out Choose the bundle that’s right for you at: the Bundles! kvh.com/VSATdigital

SCAN QR CODE

*KVH is the world’s No. 1 maritime VSAT supplier as measured by vessels equipped with mini-VSAT Broadband service, according to NSR’s Maritime SATCOM Markets, 4th Edition, June 2016, and the COMSYS Maritime VSAT Report, 4th Edition, March 2015. ©2016 KVH Industries, Inc. KVH, TracPhone, myKVH, IP-MobileCast, and the unique light-colored dome with dark contrasting baseplate are trademarks of KVH Industries, Inc. mini-VSAT Broadband is a service mark of KVH Industries, Inc. Subject to change without notice. p15-23:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 17:00 Page 8

SOFTWARE E.R. Schiffahrt and the Floating Lab

While shipping is often accused of lagging behind other industries when it comes to IT, some shipping companies are bucking the trend by pushing their staff to test and trial as many new projects as possible. Among them is Germany’s E.R. Schiffahrt and the at-sea development centre it calls the ‘Floating Lab’

f you want something done right, tiated to facilitate a wider focus, because of digitalisation.” along with another connectivity related ‘I‘Ido it yourself’ – a quote you are no sometimes you focus on something from One of the areas the company has been project which aims to offer remote support doubt familiar with, and one the top of the company and that’s not nec- exploring in improving the connectivity for vessel maintenance. attributed to either of two Frenchmen born essarily always the best thing to focus on, between the ship and office has been in the “This last one is probably the most in the eighteenth century, Napoléon Bona- so it’s a good idea to include the knowl- use of videoconferencing and live video sophisticated one and is still in the trial parte or playwright Charles-Guillaume edge and brain power of your staff.” transmission, a technology that Mr Aden mode. We thought that whenever we have Étienne, depending on who you ask. “This is what we’ve done, and one of notes is hardly revolutionary but as yet is a larger problem on board you probably German shipping company E.R. the outcomes is that we’ve found out that still an unusual option to have on a ship. need the assistance from shore and need Schiffahrt is taking the longstanding we need some kind of lab, a place or a “We have started to have videoconfer- the superintendent to get involved,” said advice of their close European neighbours room where we can try out those ideas and ences, which is not only a nicer way to Mr Aden. quite seriously when it comes to maritime see what makes sense and what to focus communicate but it connects people closer “But how? You can do it by satellite technology, and is taking on a wide and on. So we’ve defined one of our ships as with each other,” he said. phone maybe or fly over on a long distance varied range of IT development projects our Floating Lab, which is a container feed- “The performance of our company is flight to some remote place, but talking which will be tested on board the compa- er vessel trading continent and the Baltic very much relying on the performance of about connectivity it makes much more ny’s own Floating Lab – a container ship Sea. Such a lab is something I can recom- our ships, and the performance of our sense to just get online with the seafarer on specifically repurposed as a test bed for mend, to try it, not just talk but actually do ships is very much relying on the perform- board. He puts on his camera and the technological innovation. it. You must accept that there might be fail- ance of our people on board. So we need superintendent in the office can see what The purpose of the Lab on board the ures and some things might not work out the people on board our ships to really he sees, and they are immediately connect- vessel E.R. Tallinn is simple enough: take as you planned, but you give it a try.” identify with us in the headquarters to ed working on the same thing at the same the most interesting ideas from among the make the whole thing run. To have video- moment. We can also send over things staff across the company, and put them to Focus areas conferences seems to be just a small thing, from shore so the crew member on board the test on board an operating ship to see if As Mr Aden describes it, the Floating Lab but it’s one aspect that helps to bring peo- can see things that we want to show him, they can be successful. In other words, has so far mainly focused on examining ple together and develop the corporate like a manual or part of a drawing, stuff don’t wait around for the market to bring systems and solutions in three core areas. identity.” like that.” the technology, create it yourself. “One is connectivity itself. Ships, still “Another thing is that we’ve installed a “This is a kind of camera and screen set- The conduit for ideas to flow from those today, are far less connected (than shore bridge live view. This is not just to have a up, with glasses where you can communi- company employees on to the Floating Lab businesses). Lots of the information flow look at how the weather is, it’s a pragmat- cate visually both ways. This is also a very is the E.R. Schiffahrt Innovation Forum, we are used to in our daily lives is not a ic thing to have for example for the opera- interesting topic to further develop, where all staff, whether they work on ships reality on ships yet, so there’s a lot of room tions department, not to have to interrupt because it’s really very much more effi- or shore, are encouraged to share any wild to improve,” he said. and call the master to say ‘how are you cient in terms of getting things repaired, ideas they have, in a scenario likened to the “Another thing we focused on was doing on cargo operations?’ You can just it’s very much more efficient in terms of Silicon Valley garage start-up scene by reefer monitoring, that’s simply due to the look on the internet or intranet and see if travel costs, and it actually accelerates the company CEO, Nils Aden. fact that reefers usually contain the most they’ve put the gantries away or if they’re process of getting things done on board.” “It’s amazing to see how many ideas are valuable cargo, the most sensitive cargo, so still moving cargo. In all different kinds of Outside of these efforts to connect peo- produced by people from different ranks that’s something our liner customers are situations this is a small, but very prag- ple on board the ship with their colleagues and different positions - how many bril- very much concerned about.” matic helpful thing to do.” on shore, E.R. Schiffahrt is also in the early liant ideas there are,” he explained. “The third one is that we’ve tried to These are just two of the programmes to stages of testing automated remote moni- “It’s a kind of crowdsourcing we’ve ini- optimise our internal processes by means be adopted from the Innovation Forum, toring systems on its Floating Lab, as Mr Aden explains. “When we come to reefer monitoring, I won’t go into much detail here but we are testing a system that allows a more digi- tised monitoring of those temperatures in the container,” he said. “What happens today is that people usually go from container to container to container to check the temperature twice a day, and that is not always pleasant in heavy weather. So to have this as reliable digital information seems not to be a big step, but in parts of the shipping industry it still is a fairly big step. Our tests have also proven to work well on the Floating Lab vessel.” In addition to the connected projects already mentioned involving real time information sharing, another system cur- rently being tested is an app created by E.R Schiffahrt in 2015, which aims to streamline the reporting process for superintendents. “We thought about why superintend- ents needed to go on board and have to use paper on all parts of the vessel to take notes and take pictures, going to the next one and doing another inspection, then travelling home before going to the office to write everything down. It takes a lot of E.R. Tallinn, the Floating Lab time to get to the actual report of that

Digital Ship December 2016 / January 2017 page 22 p15-23:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 17:00 Page 9

Digital Ship

fleet management system.” or FuelSafe Light. KPIs so that they can monitor their ships “So before the superintendent has actu- “Both of these deliver slightly different under E.R. Schiffahrt management at any ally left the vessel the report is already in amounts of data, for different cost struc- given time. the office, and if required we can immedi- tures. That’s why we have two. But they all “As we have very different kinds of ately start to work on it. This is much more go to our database, and in the full version owners these dashboards can look quite efficient than the old paper-style.” we monitor up to 350 different items, hun- different,” said Mr Aden. dreds of times a day. They’re being moni- “There are owners who look more on Big Data tored by the second but we collect them financial performance and the commercial On a wider level, one of the drivers for the every five minutes as this is sufficient to side, or other owners who are more techni- Innovation Forum and Floating Lab proj- spot fields of improvement in time,” Mr cally oriented and want more KPIs from ects is an appreciation at E.R. Schiffahrt Aden explained. the technical performance side. We also that the onset of the Big Data era is likely to “That goes into our database and per- have liner companies that have placed happen sooner rather than later – some- formance monitoring centre. You might their ship management with us and they thing the company is looking to prepare see this kind of monitoring regularly with also have a different focus and set of itself for through these programmes, and liner companies monitoring their bunker KPI’s.” also through a change in mind-set away consumption closely, but we also want to With these and other future projects from traditional processes. do the same as a manager because we across the Innovation Forum and Floating “There’s really Big Data, even Huge believe that we have to take care of our Lab, E.R. Schiffahrt isn’t waiting for ship- Data. To deal with that, there’s only one customers’ valuable goods, such as ping technology to get to where it wants to ‘We have an excellent team ship and way, and that’s to really focus on those bunkers, proactively.” be and is instead going out and making shore – and it’s a good idea to include the aspects that you deem to be important and “We use the system to support our things happen itself. knowledge, experience and creativity of your staff to develop the company further’ significant,”said Mr Aden. crews on board to deliver a perfect per- “In terms of digitisation in general ship- – Nils Aden, E.R. Schiffahrt In Mr Aden’s mind there are two ways formance to our customers. This is a sys- ping is mostly lagging behind other indus- to approach this. One is to analyse all the tem also linked to the superintendents so tries,” said Mr Aden. inspection, so we thought that this could data available and try to learn something they can also see how they are performing, “I believe that shipping has been too be done more efficiently,” said Mr Aden. new that you didn’t know before, while the maybe if someone is having too many aux- conservative with regard to new ideas and “They all have smartphones in their other is to define a particular set of ques- iliaries running, for example. All different new developments, particularly compared hands anyway, so we created an app tions or requirements and see what the kinds of items can be monitored, and to other industries. I believe there’s a big where the inspection is being done with data can tell you about those issues. whenever there is something outside of an gap – just take the airline industry or the the smartphone, so they can open a new While the Floating Lab focuses on spe- acceptable range, we can pick up the automotive industry.” report, take pictures immediately and put cific technologies or projects that have phone to the chief or master and assist to “I think Big Data is already a big part of them in the report, they can take all kinds been raised by the Innovation Forum, the change things. This helps a lot to really our life, we just need to make proper use of of notes and have an already defined company is also more broadly using a improve the overall performance.” it and focus on what we want to do with it. action plan. It also gets signed on that vessel performance monitoring system to Something else developed recently by We need to find ways to practically use it smartphone, like when you receive a pack- collect large amounts of data from its the company to aid in data management and actually gain a practical advantage out age from the postman and sign for it. After ships with the aim of spotting trends and and interpretation is the Owner’s Deck, of it so we can add value to our customers. signing the report can’t be changed any- developing KPIs for operational efficient- a dashboard configurable for each indi- That’s what we are doing, and will contin- more, it’s uploaded and it ends up in our ly. This comes in two versions – FuelSafe vidual owner which provides real time ue to do for the future.” DS

Digital Ship December 2016 / January 2017 page 23 p24-32:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 17:51 Page 1

ELECTRONICS & NAVIGATION BCG releases Furuno radar emulation

www.bcgeng.com PC21X7 also includes a zoom window, that allows the user to zoom in and see a Buffalo Computer Graphics (BCG) has specific area of their radar screen in a sep- added another emulation product to its arate window, as well as the ability to send family of Radar Emulators, to cover the and receive AIS text messages in the same Furuno FAR21X7 radar. manner as the real radar. PC21X7 utilises the same simulation Other software features include a engine as the rest of BCG’s radar simula- full Automated Radar Plotting Aid tion products, to offer a tool for student’s (ARPA), dual Electronic Bearing Lines looking to gain FAR-21X7 or SPS-50 radar & Variable Range Markers (EBL & experience in their ship navigation and VRM), multiple presentation modes, collision avoidance training. AIS functionality and range scaling. The radar image incorporates simula- For ARPA support, PC21X7 provides tion of landmass, targets, precipitation target acquisition and tracking, leading returns, sea clutter and other effects seen vectors and history trails, and trial on a real radar. manoeuvres. A PC21X7 screenshot GC Rieber to roll out NAVTOR services across its fleet Thome Ship Management agrees IT maintenance www.navtor.com The agreement covers the delivery of all NAVTOR’s NavBox units, which connect deal for vessel fleet digital and paper charts and publications, with ECDIS equipment and automatically Shipping company GC Rieber has signed a provided on a Pay As You Sail (PAYS) download navigational data without navi- fleet-wide agreement with NAVTOR for basis, alongside other products and servic- gators having to check for updates. www.radioholland.com the supply of navigation services, data and es including weather and route optimisa- GC Rieber operates a fleet of nine ves- publications, spanning both paper and tion, and the NavTracker navigational sels, and the installation of all products Thome Ship Management and Radio digital deliveries, across its seismic and management system. and services is expected to be completed Holland Singapore have concluded a offshore ships. Also part of the roll-out will be by the end of 2016. Service Rate Agreement (SRA) covering “As a shipowner and operator we the service and maintenance of the navi- are focused on maximising both efficien- gation and communication systems on cy and the quality of our operations – board Thome’s entire fleet of more than something that all our customers and 200 vessels. stakeholders benefit from. The NAVTOR Headquartered in Singapore, Thome solution fits perfectly within that frame- Ship Management already has an existing work, uniting all vessels with a single relationship with Radio Holland which solution that pays real dividends,” said has now been expanded to include the Geir Rasmussen, marine superintendent, SRA. GC Rieber. Under the deal a Single Point of “NAVTOR is established, stable and Contact (SPoC) is established to manage high quality in its deliverables, so we feel everything from annual radio surveys to confident consolidating all our naviga- servicing bridge equipment, to the deliv- tion needs with them. What’s more the ery of spare parts and on-the-spot trou- team is innovative – constantly striving bleshooting. for new solutions and the means to deliv- “Radio Holland has a large global net- er added value.” work and enjoys a good reputation. We “This continual process of improvement need a reliable partner we can call on to is important to us and we look forward to support our worldwide activities of our benefiting from, and contributing to, their entire fleet,” said Ryan Dalgado, procure- The GC Rieber offshore construction vessel Polar Queen further e-navigation developments.” ment and supply chain manager at Thome Ship Management. Hatteland Display “It is also convenient for us to have a LR to partner with new Singapore local contact in Singapore, where we know acquires GuardREC the people and they help us wherever our technology centre vessels are in the world.” www.hatteland-display.com www.lr.org of simulating complex and extreme sea states at water depths of up to Maritime display and computer company Lloyd’s Register (LR) and the new 3,000 metres. Hatteland Display, a subsidiary of the Technology Centre for Offshore and The facility will also be investing in Norautron Group, has entered into an Marine Singapore (TCOMS) have high performance computing, artificial agreement to buy 100 per cent of agreed to work together in the joint intelligence, machine learning, big data GuardREC, a software company that development of technology and infra- analytics and Cloud computing technolo- develops recorder systems for Air Traffic structure for future marine and offshore gies to support research into marine and Control and financial institutions. systems, as well as in areas like digital offshore operations. GuardREC software is used to manage and data innovation, and research on “By partnering with TCOMS, its compliance recording systems, combining robotic autonomous systems in the clients and industry partners, LR aims to recording of mobile, fixed and VoIP marine environment. create new applications for digital and telephones. TCOMS is being set up to offer a data technologies and create a communi- “GuardREC AS will be a very valuable platform for industry and technology ty of new skills to enhance our develop- contribution to Hatteland Display's partners from Singapore and around ment capabilities,” said Simon Reeve, VP growth and development going forward,” the world to connect and collaborate technology and innovation at Lloyd’s said Trond Johannessen, CEO of through physical and digital Register. Hatteland Display. modelling of marine and offshore “The partnership between TCOMS “The combination of GuardREC's posi- assets. The Centre will house one of and LR will focus on the development of tion in attractive market segments and (l-r) Irene Yoong, Radio Holland, and Ryan the largest ocean basin test facilities future systems that are safe, reliable and first class software competence constitute Dalgado, Thome Ship Management in the world, which will be capable sustainable.” an excellent match with our strategy.”

Digital Ship December 2016 / January 2017 page 24 p24-32:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 17:51 Page 2

Digital Ship

ECDIS Ltd reports that it has extended New simulator its course portfolio to include a new one day type specific training course for the opened in Liverpool JRC 9201 ECDIS system. www.merseymaritime.co.uk Alphatron Marine has announced the opening of a new office and ware- UK Shipping Minister John Hayes was house space, located in Zwijndrecht in among the guests at the official opening of a Belgium. Customers in Belgium and new Maritime Bridge and Engine Simulator France will be served from this new loca- training facility in Liverpool, as part of a tion, with the previous office in Meerdonk maritime graduate talent programme that now closed. Alphatron has also opened an has been developed in partnership with office in Le Havre in order to serve the UK industry body Mersey Maritime. south Europe region. The Maritime Bridge and Engine Kongsberg has formally opened Simulator is located on the Byrom Street its first office and warehouse facility Campus at Liverpool John Moores in the Republic of South Africa. Located University (LJMU), which is also home to in Cape Town’s airport zone, Kongsberg the Manufacturing Technology Centre Maritime South Africa has been (MTC), part of the UK’s High Value established to better serve customers Manufacturing Catapult, and the Building located in, or visiting ports across the Research Establishment (BRE). country and throughout the Sub-Saharan The simulator will form a key part of the region. Paul Østergaard, DMS executive chairman graduate training scheme that will offer DYNAMARINe’s Emission sponsorship placement opportunities to ten Monitoring system, for use in compliance ments, has been certified by emissions with Petey Rozands taking up manage- local companies operating in the maritime with EU Monitoring Reporting and verification company Verifavia against ment of sales and new business activity sector. The programme is an extension of the Verification (MRV) regulation require- the requirements of the EU MRV for North America and the surrounding three-year Memorandum of Understanding Regulation (2015/757) in terms of process region. The New Orleans hub has been (MoU) signed in 2015 between Mersey and functionality. operational since 2012 when it was Maritime and LJMU to provide direct access www.ecdis.org Datema has been appointed as a dis- acquired by the company. between the university and maritime sec- www.jrc.com tributor by BigOceanData. The inte- Digital Marine Solutions AS tor employers, and to identify skills gaps. www.alphatronmarine.com grated Datema BOD MyFleet system will (DMS), the parent company of C-Map, “It is by bringing together academics www.kongsberg.com have the ability to combine multiple data has appointed former ShipServ CEO and industry through this programme, www.dynamarine.com sources into one platform, using an opti- Paul Østergaard as its new executive and using cutting edge simulation tech- www.datema.nl mised mix of satellite and terrestrial AIS chairman. In his new position, Mr nology, that we’ll be able to successfully www.bigoceandata.nl and integrated C-Map maritime charts Østergaard will work alongside the DMS train up the next generation of mariners, www.nautisk.com with Google Maps. board of directors and the C-Map leader- and ensure the UK’s maritime industry www.c-map.com Nautisk has appointed a new region- ship team to develop and implement the remains world-leading for many years to al sales manager for its New Orleans hub, company’s strategic plan. come,” said Mr Hayes, at the launch.

Proud supplier of e-Navigation to

the Ship of the Year 2016: “Vision of the Fjords” The vessel is built and delivered by Brødrene Aa shipyard to the ship-owner The Fjords AS. This futuristic and environmental friendly vessel will sail the fjords of Norway navigating on NAVTOR e-Navigation services. NAVTOR - preferred by professionals www.navtor.com

Digital Ship December 2016 / January 2017 page 25 p24-32:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 17:51 Page 3

ELECTRONICS & NAVIGATION Ice cruise vessel to be fitted out by Kongsberg Vessel inspection www.kongsberg.com drone ready for launch

Kongsberg Maritime is to install a range www.rims-bv.com of technology systems aboard Australian cruise line Scenic Cruises’ new ice class Robotica in Maintenance Strategies cruise ship, the 228-passenger, 168 metre (RIMS) has launched a new inspection long Scenic Eclipse, which is currently service for enclosed spaces using Elios under construction at Uljanik Shipyard in drone technology, targeted at the mar- Croatia ahead of expected delivery dur- itime and offshore industries. ing 2018. The Scenic Eclipse’s bridge will be set up using the K-Master system The Elios unit, created by RIMS partner The scope of supply combines naviga- Flyability, is a drone within a protective tion and Dynamic Positioning (DP) sys- ity, with the K-Chief automation control user interface through touch screens, cage, which the company says is ideally tems, automation, an Emergency Shutdown system featuring close to 10,000 I/O points. which replace traditional operator panels. suited to enter enclosed spaces and carry System (ESD), Power Management System The Scenic Eclipse’s bridge will be The redundant radar network enables out in depth inspections. (PMS) and Safety Management and Control focused around the K-Master Integrated navigators to combine signals from all four Working with additional partners System (SMCS), all connected to a single Bridge System, centred on two independ- radars on board into a single picture, with Rotterdam Offshore Group and Rolldock, Integrated Control System. ent and redundant workstations, with additional functions for ice detection and and under Class supervision, tests of the This will also be integrated with an multifunctional operator stations for navi- wave height and direction calculations also technology have already been carried out online diagnostics and remote service facil- gation and positioning using a common part of the package. on board the vessel Rolldock Sky to check whether the controls and data transfer Carnival Maritime extends Fleet Operation Centre to cover 11 more vessels would operate as required within a ballast tank and duct keel. www.carnival-maritime.com cover an additional 11 ships for P&O With this growth in users Carnival Following the successful completion of Cruises and the Cunard line. Maritime will also be expanding its shore the tests RIMS says it will now be offering Carnival Maritime, the marine service unit Up to summer 2016, the Centre was setup, with a new Nautical Department inspection services to the maritime sector of Costa Group in Hamburg, has extended exclusively responsible for monitoring and and a larger Continuous Improvement using the new technology. the remote monitoring services provided supporting 26 ships for the Costa Group department. The Nautical Department will by its Fleet Operation Centre (FOC) to (Costa Crociere, AIDA Cruises and Costa be headed by vice president nautical oper- Asia). With these 11 added ations, Keith Dowds. vessels it is now supporting “The main premise behind the new 37 ships in total. Nautical Operations department is that we The consolidated moni- are continuously seeking to improve and toring system at the FOC is share information and best practices across used to share best practices the fleets. We provide extra nautical among the ships, with the expertise also to the brands,” he said. aim of leveraging economies “This will give us enormous benefits, of scale to reduce costs as for example when it comes to the deploy- Keith Dowds, Marc-Dominique Tidow, Lars Ljoen, well as aligning processes ment of the ships, their energy efficiency David Knukkel, director of RIMS, and Alexander Klingelhöfer of Carnival Maritime across all of the vessels. and port costs.” demonstrating the Elios drone Kongsberg to supply first Korean dual-fuel merchant ship

www.kongsberg.com a K-Gauge fuel tank monitoring setup. The AutoChief 600 propulsion control Kongsberg Maritime is to supply an inte- system will be integrated with the FGSS to grated automation solution to South control the main Fuel Gas valve, propul- Korean ship owner Ilshin Shipping sion and main engine. Company, for installation on a newbuild “Kongsberg Maritime has an established 50,000 dwt LNG fuelled bulk carrier being long-term relationship with Hyundai Heavy built at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard. Industries and we are keen to support its The ship, scheduled for delivery during shift towards building ‘Green Ships’ to com- the fourth quarter of 2017, is the first dual- ply with new ECA/SECA requirements,” fuel merchant vessel to be built in South said Morten Stanger, vice president, mer- Korea and will also be the first ship to chant marine sales, Kongsberg Maritime. implement Kongsberg’s new Fuel Gas “Our diverse portfolio of integrated Supply System (FGSS). technology is designed to make shipping In addition to the FGSS, the delivery more efficient. Our systems make new solu- includes a K-Chief 600 alarm, monitoring tions like Fuel Gas Supply Systems a viable and control system, an AutoChief 600 option for more vessel types, enabling more propulsion control system, a Bearing Wear shipowners to save money on bunkering Monitoring System (BWCM), an costs and the shipping industry to reduce Emergency Shutdown System (ESDS) and its overall environmental footprint.”

Ilshin Shipping Company is adding an LNG fuelled bulk carrier to its existing fleet

Digital Ship December 2016 / January 2017 page 26 p24-32:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 17:51 Page 4

Concept to Delivery Unmistakeable appeal and coherent operation

www.jrc.am p24-32:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 17:51 Page 5

EVENTS CALENDAR 2017

Digital Ship Maritime CIO Forums: Digital Ship Conferences: 14 February Cyprus NEW for 2017: 04 April Marseille Digital Ship iShipping Conference 03 May Hamburg 01 & 02 March Copenhagen W/C 29 May Nor-Shipping 01 & 02 November Athens 05 September Tokyo 26 September Rotterdam Digital Ship Maritime Cyber 04 October Singapore Resilience Forums: W/C 23 October Kormarine 31 January Rotterdam 23 November Bergen 25 April Athens W/C 04 December Marintec China 19 October Hamburg

FREE FOR SHIPPING COMPANIES

If you are involved directly in working for a ship operator (owner, manager, or builder) you are invited to attend Digital Ship events FREE OF CHARGE. Please register via the event website and select the “FREE shipping company” option.

If you are interested in participating If you would like to discuss any If you would like to support these at an event as a sponsor or exhibitor aspect of these programmes, please events as a media or organisation please contact: contact: partner, please contact: Youngsuk Park Cathy Hodge Gabi Weck t: +44 20 7017 3409 t: +44 7956 965 857 t: +44 20 7017 3409 e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected]

Dates and locations may be subject to change at the discretion of the organiser

Search for The Digital Ship @TheDigitalShip Search for The Digital Ship

For the latest updates on all of our events visit www.thedigitalship.com p24-32:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 17:51 Page 6

Digital Ship New unmanned ship partnerships agreed

Despite widespread scepticism in some quarters about the desire or necessity for a maritime future containing autonomous vessels, the number of commercial and governmental organisations getting involved in unmanned ship development projects is expanding at an incredible pace – as evidenced by a host of new agreements recently announced

ew partnerships featuring com- we developed totally new bridge and panies in the UK, Norway and remote control systems for shipping.” NNFinland have been agreed which aim to accelerate the development of Automatic crossing remote controlled and autonomous ships The VTT agreement was signed shortly for commercial use. after Rolls-Royce announced that it had Rolls-Royce and VTT Technical Research agreed a separate deal to supply its first Centre of Finland are among them, having automatic crossing system to Norwegian announced a strategic partnership focusing ferry company Fjord1, an early step on the design, testing and validation of first towards the company’s goal of creating generation remote and autonomous ships, fully autonomous vessels. with the eventual aim of making such ves- The system, the first of its kind, will sels a commercial reality. control two new double-ended battery Rolls-Royce is already heavily involved ferries as they cross between Anda and in the development of autonomous ships Lote on the 1,330 km long E39 which A Fjord1 ferry will be equipped with an automatic crossing system and believes a remote controlled ship will connects communities along the west coast be in commercial use by the end of the of Norway. take place at the Tersan Shipyard in in real-world representative sea trials. This decade. VTT works in ship simulation and The Captain will supervise the automat- Turkey, with the vessels due for delivery will include demonstration of autonomous will offer expertise in the development and ic system and intervene using traditional in 2017 before commencing operations on control of a USV for Mine Counter management of safety-critical and complex manoeuvring systems if needed. 1 January 2018. Measure (MCM) operations and the devel- systems in demanding environments, such For the first delivery, the Captain will opment of broader USV applications along as nuclear safety. manoeuvre the ferry manually the last few MAXCMAS with navigational support for larger con- VTT’s work combines physical tests metres to the dock. The next iteration of this Like its UK neighbours Rolls-Royce, ventional vessels. such as model and tank testing, with digi- product will extend the system to allow Lloyd’s Register (LR) is also getting An interesting feature of the trial will tal technologies, such as data analytics and automatic berthing, which Rolls-Royce says involved in unmanned ship system devel- be the use of networked bridge simulators computer visualisation, as well as the use it is looking to test in the near future. opment, having joined the MAXCMAS as a test environment. These simulators, of field research to incorporate human fac- If the Captain is not, for some reason, project, a GBP£1.27 million collaborative ordinarily applied to mariner training, tors into safe ship design. able to take manual control, the system research initiative that aims to investigate, will be used to iterate development based In addition, VTT has experience of stops the vessel at a safe distance from the develop and implement real-time collision on human reactions by the crew and working with 5G mobile phone technology quayside and keeps it safely positioned avoidance algorithms for autonomous real-world difficulties such as degraded and Wi-Fi mesh networks as a result of automatically until further action can maritime vessels. sensors. working with the Finnish telecommunica- be taken. The MAXCMAS (Machine executable “Lloyd’s Register’s main contribution is tions sector, giving it access to the first 5G “The Automatic Crossing System has collision regulations for Marine a number of safety assurance activities, test network in Finland. been developed with the company’s Ship Autonomous systems) project, which will including providing software assurance Rolls-Royce says that the partnership Intelligence programme and will help the be completed in 2017, also includes Rolls advice. The activities are aimed at identify- will allow it to assess the performance of customer meet their contractual need to Royce as project lead, as well as Atlas ing the challenges and solutions to assuring remote and autonomous designs through ensure predictable energy consumption Elektronik UK, Queen’s University Belfast the safe implementation of the COLREGs the use of both traditional model tank tests optimised for varying environmental con- and Southampton Solent University’s principles and reducing the risk of operat- and digital simulation, allowing the com- ditions,” said Jann Peter Strand, Rolls- Warsash Maritime Academy. ing autonomous vessels,” said Jesus pany to develop functional, safe and reli- Royce, product manager, automatic & MAXCMAS aims to develop COLREGs Mediavilla Varas, strategic research lab lead able prototypes. control – marine. (International Regulations for Preventing specialist and LR’s lead on the project. “Remotely operated ships are a key “It is a step on the road to realising Collisions at Sea 1972) compliant collision “The maritime industry is moving development project for Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce’s goal of remote and avoidance navigation for autonomous towards smarter and more autonomous Marine, and VTT is a reliable and innova- autonomous vessels.” ships and other Unmanned Surface Vessels vessels, and involvement in research proj- tive partner for the development of a smart The Automatic Crossing System can be (USVs), which will be a fundamental com- ects like MAXCMAS allows us to better ship concept,” said Karno Tenovuo, vice installed as an add-on to any standard ponent of any move to introduce wide- understand the technological risks and president ship intelligence, Rolls-Royce. Rolls-Royce azimuthing thruster, mean- scale use of unmanned vehicles at sea. control measures associated with greater “This collaboration is a natural continu- ing it can be retrofitted to existing fleets The project also hopes to carry out com- autonomy and to be equipped to provide ation of the earlier User Experience for of ferries. prehensive machine execution of the assurance to our clients when the technol- Complex systems (UXUS) project, where Construction of the Anda and Lote will COLREGs and demonstrate these in part ogy is ready.” LR is also contributing to the distribu- tion of the project results and the investi- gation of the business case for commercial autonomous ships. Hrönn development Another UK company involved in this bur- geoning sector is Automated Ships Ltd (an M Subs Ltd subsidiary), which has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Norway's Kongsberg Maritime to build the world's first unmanned and fully-automat- ed vessel for offshore operations. In January 2017, Automated Ships Ltd will contract for the construction of the ‘Hrönn’, which will be designed and built in Norway in cooperation with Kongsberg. Sea trials will take place in Rolls-Royce expects to see remote commercial ships in operation by the end of the decade Norway’s newly designated automated

Digital Ship December 2016 / January 2017 page 29 p24-32:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 17:52 Page 7

ELECTRONICS & NAVIGATION

automation and communication. Growth, Troels Lund Poulsen. All vessel control systems including “In the longer term, research in dynamic positioning, automation and the autonomous ships may become a great ECDIS will be replicated at an Onshore advantage for Blue Denmark. The global Control Centre, allowing full remote oper- maritime sector is faced with a number of ation of the Hrönn. challenges … and this technology could “The advantages of unmanned ships are turn out to be part of the solution.” manifold, but primarily centre on the safe- The planned pre-study will be carried guarding of life and reduction in the cost of out as a DTU research-based maritime con- production and operations; removing peo- sultancy project, financed by the Danish ple from the hazardous environment of at- Maritime Fund. sea operations and re-employing them on Denmark is already involved in a num- shore to monitor and operate robotic ves- ber of related navigational data sharing sels remotely, along with the significantly initiatives, with the DMA-led EfficienSea 2 Artist’s impression of the 'Hrönn' decreased cost in constructing ships, will project preparing to demonstrate its first revolutionise the marine industry,” said results, with beta releases of some of the vessel test bed in the Trondheim fjord like surveys, light intermodal cargo deliv- Brett Phaneuf, managing director of solutions proposed by the project ready to and will be conducted under the auspices ery and delivery to offshore installations. Automated Ships Ltd. be launched. of DNV GL and the Norwegian Maritime Automated Ships says it is currently in Hrönn is expected to be built by DMA says that this includes the opening Authority (NMA), by whom the Hrönn discussion with several end-users that will Norwegian shipyard Fjellstrand AS, which up of service and identity registries for the will ultimately be respectively classed act as early-adopters and will help to also built the world's first battery driven Maritime Cloud, to enable information and flagged. establish a base-rate for operations for car ferry, Ampere. suppliers to develop and insert digital Currently, only small unmanned boats Hrönn in the near future. information services in the service registry. are being utilised for near shore operations Hrönn will initially operate and function Danish ambitions The project will also launch a beta but there are no technical limitations to primarily as a remotely piloted ship, in Outside of the commercial sector, the release of the web-based platform constructing large, unmanned and auto- ‘Man-in-the-Loop’ control mode, but will Danish Maritime Authority has also BalticWeb, an internet portal where navi- mated systems, the companies said. transition to fully automated, and ultimate- announced that it is launching its own pre- gating officers can access digital services The current main impediments are reg- ly autonomous operations as the control study on autonomous ships together with such as weather and navigation warnings ulatory, but with the participation of DNV algorithms are developed concurrently the Technical University of Denmark from their computers and tablets once they GL and the NMA, and other Norwegian during remotely piloted operations. (DTU), to increase the country’s common are made available in the Maritime Cloud. and UK companies and institutions, the Automated Ships Ltd will be the primary knowledge base on the technology and to “This means that it is not necessary to partners believe it will be possible to rap- integrator, project manager and shipowner. set a preliminary framework so that the wait for information flows to become inte- idly and at low-cost be the first to market Kongsberg’s role in the project is to development and use of unmanned ships grated in the standard equipment on the with a full-size unmanned ship. deliver all major marine equipment neces- can be planned in an appropriate manner. navigation bridge. It is possible for suppli- Hrönn is a light-duty, offshore utility sary for the design, construction and “This is a really interesting area and, in ers of new, digital information services to ship servicing the offshore energy, scientif- operation of Hrönn, including systems for the short term, the technology can be used reach the users right away,” said Bjørn ic/hydrographic and offshore fish-farming dynamic positioning and navigation, to make our ships safer and more effi- Borbye Pedersen, special adviser at the industries. Its intended uses include tasks satellite and position reference, marine cient,” said Minister for Business and Danish Maritime Authority. DS

Digital Ship December 2016 / January 2017 page 30 p24-32:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 17:52 Page 8 p24-32:p1-14.qxd 28/11/2016 17:52 Page 9

Your world is unreliable. Your VSAT connectivity doesn’t have to be.

Intellian is the industry’s first choice in satellite communications systems. Our products are backed by a three-year warranty and global support whenever and wherever you need it. Why? Because staying connected from dock to destination is not just a choice, it’s a critical business decision. Faster. Smarter. Easier.

Intellian.tellia . Making the world a smaller place.

intelliantech.com