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p1-13:p1-14.qxd 15/01/2010 17:26 Page 1 January/ February 2010 FleetBroadband reaches IN THIS ISSUE 5,000 activations satcoms Parallel acquired by iDirect – 3 Inmarsat’s flagship FleetBroadband system has now passed 5,000 commercial activations since its launch – a faster adoption rate 1,000 OpenPorts now active at sea – 6 than any of its predecessor terminals and an impressive indication of how the maritime industry is embracing the move to broadband Satellite communications spending on the increase despite downturn – 8 Buying VSAT nmarsat has Peter Van de Venne, IT Mr Van de Venne. which is not only cost – an independent announced the activa- director at Spliethoff, says “We have refined our effective but operationally guide for maritime – 10 IItion of the 5,000th that he expects to utilise software program so we more efficient.” FleetBroadband terminal, the 432 kbps system to are now able to routinely Happy Rover is the lat- reaching this figure in just introduce new capabilities check on progress online est of nine Spliethoff vessels over two years since the sys- like remote IT manage- rather than talking on the to adopt FleetBroadband, software tem was first launched at ment, and to improve the phone, which is not only with new vessels from the the end of November 2007. information flow between costly but can often lead rest of the 70-strong fleet of The 5,000th terminal multipurpose vessels, rang- Common Marine Inspection Documents was activated on Happy ing in size from 2,500 to now available electronically – 15 Rover, a 1997-built ship 21,000 tonnes, expected to Maritime e-Learning podcasts get wider owned by Dutch company be similarly fitted in future. BigLift Shipping BV, a distribution – 17 member of the Spliethoff Fastest Turning crisis to Group. adoption opportunity at Exmar Happy Rover is now The 5,000 FleetBroadband operating with a Thrane systems now in service Shipmanagement – 18 and Thrane Sailor FB 500, represent a mix of FB 500, supplied by Radio Holland FB 250 and FB 150 termi- and installed by Stratos, nals, all with commercially electronics and which has managed active SIM cards passing Spliethoff’s communica- BigLift Shipping’s Happy Rover was installed with the operational traffic. navigation tion for over 30 years, from 5,000th FleetBroadband terminal Inmarsat says that the early days of telex all this run rate makes Danish government to use the way through to ship and shore. to misinterpretation or FleetBroadband the fastest FleetBroadband. The company is also misunderstanding.” adopted maritime service space-based AIS – 22 Stratos, owned by looking at the benefits of “This way we check in the company’s 30-year Inmarsat but still operat- slow-scan video to deal with the Captain and then history. ENCTrack available on fixed price basis – 26 ing as an independent with problems like engine connect at a time that The latest member of AIS technology installed company, has been malfunction, cargo damage works for us here in the series, the FB150, com- during International Space responsible for more than and medical emergencies Amsterdam to take over mercially launched in May half of the worldwide “We are particularly the PC. Effectively, we can 2009, already has 500 ter- Station spacewalk – 28 FleetBroadband activa- pleased with the remote ‘mouse move’ across the minals activated – a rate of RIP for Loran-C – Dr Andy Norris – 30 tions to date. maintenance feature,” said oceans, day or night, continued on page 2 “It’s a matter of trust and security” – Bill Caldwell, IT manager of Northern Marine Management © 2009 DUALOG AS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL RIGHTS AS. © 2009 DUALOG With more than 6,000 sea staff and a fleet of 60 ships operating globally, Glasgow-based Northern Marine Management has chosen Dualog as its trusted maritime communication partner. All Northern Marine-managed ships are being equipped with Dualog® Connection Suite™ to manage and control ship-shore data communication. “Dualog has been around for a long time and they are renowned for their extensive knowledge of the maritime industry. They listen to us, the customer, providing us with the best solution and support at all times. We know our communications are secure in their hands,” says Bill Caldwell. Meet us at Digital Ship Cyprus 2010 3-4 February 2010, St Raphael Hotel & Resort Dualog® Connection Suite™ - Take Control p1-13:p1-14.qxd 15/01/2010 17:26 Page 2 SATCOMS NEWS continued from page 1 adoption which is twice that of FB500 and deliver genuine broadband connectivity.” The deployment of the satcom system is FB250 at a similar period after launch. In other news, Fleet Management expected to be completed by the end of “The continued strong growth for Limited Hong Kong is set to follow the March 2010. FleetBroadband shows that it has become Spliethoff Group into the FleetBroadband Many of Fleet Management Limited’s ves- Vol 10 No 5 the de facto standard for modern maritime family having recently agreed a deal with sels are scheduled to call in the Rotterdam communications,” said Piers Cunningham, Dutch company Port-IT to upgrade its area, close to where Port-IT is based, during Digital Ship Limited maritime business director, Inmarsat. onboard satellite communications. the period between now and the completion 213 Marsh Wall “FB150 in particular is beating our The contract provides for the installa- date to facilitate the installation process. London E14 9FJ, U.K. expectations, and no doubt those of our tion of 50 Inmarsat FleetBroadband termi- Implementation of AmosConnect and www.thedigitalship.com competitors too. FleetBroadband is the nals on the company’s ships, where it will secure networking capabilities are includ- only service that is cost effective, reliable, replace existing Inmarsat equipment as ed in the overall deployment package PUBLISHER has a global reach and is optimised to the primary communications method. agreed between the parties. DS Stuart Fryer EDITOR Rob O'Dwyer: Tel: +44 (0)20 7510 4940 email: [email protected] Marlink agrees multiple VSAT deals for 2010 CONFERENCE PRODUCERS www.marlink.com using link optimising services, compress- Offshore Service, is for the supply of com- Karl Jeffery: Tel: +44 (0)20 7510 4935 ing the data to improve speed and min- munications to two of Hornbeck’s Multi email: [email protected] Marlink has announced that it has agreed a imise bandwidth usage. Purpose Support Vessels. Cathy Hodge: Tel +44 (0) 20 7510 4945 number of new multi-year VSAT contracts, Companie du Ponant has, like Viking The HOS Iron Horse and newbuild email: [email protected] with Viking Line of Finland, US company Line, also agreed a five year VSAT agree- HOS Strongline, the third and fourth ves- Hornbeck Offshore Service, and French- ment with Marlink. sels in the Hornbeck fleet to be served by ADVERTISING flag cruise line, Companie du Ponant. As part of the new contract Marlink Marlink, provide deepwater services for Ria Kontogeorgou: Tel: +44 (0)20 7510 4931 Viking Line has entered into a new 5 will deliver and install its Sealink Ku- subsea construction, installation and other email: [email protected] year satellite communications contract band and C-band services onboard three operations mainly in the Gulf of Mexico, which will continue an existing agree- existing vessels, Le Ponant, Le Levant and but can be mobilised to any region of the PRODUCTION ment between the companies, though it Le Diamant, as well as two newbuilds world based on customer needs. Vivian Chee: Tel: +44 (0)20 8995 5540 does include some enhancements for the planned for 2010, Le Boreal and L'Austral. Marlink will provide its Sealink VSAT email: [email protected] current Sealink systems onboard the com- Le Ponant, the company's three-mast systems on either C- or Ku-band for the 36 pany's fleet of ferries. sailing ship, will be the first to be month contract. EVENTS The communications will be upgraded installed, receiving a Ku-band antenna, The system on each vessel will have 16 Diana Leahy Engelbrecht in early 2010 to bring the onboard systems while C-band antennas will be installed voice lines, VLANs for administration and Tel: +44 (0)118 931 3109 on all ships up to the same standard, onboard the remaining four vessels, con- crew, together with content filtering and email: [email protected] while the overall bandwidth will be sub- cluding in May 2010 with the L'Austral. accelerators which compress data to max- stantially increased. The VSAT systems will provide each imise cost efficiency. CONSULTANT WRITER Marlink says that the installations will ship with 256 kbps bandwidth and eight HOS Iron Horse will operate with a Dr Andy Norris (navigation) take advantage of the latest coding tech- simultaneous prepaid and postpaid tele- dual antenna while HOS Strongline will [email protected] nology and satellite routers, with all ships phone channels. have a single antenna system. DIGITAL SHIP SUBSCRIPTIONS to have access to passenger internet "With our cruise ships sailing to popu- Tore Morten Olsen, CEO of Marlink com- GBP £150 per year for 10 issues FreeLAN, the Marlink 'Internet@Sea' lar destinations all over the world, it is mented: "This is an important contract for Subscribe online at onboard public internet WiFi service with imperative that we provide passengers us, not only because it continues to expand www.thedigitalship.com prepaid access control, and prepaid tele- and crew with the facility to stay in touch the business relationship with this fast or contact Stephan Venter on phone services for crew and passengers. with friends and family ashore," com- growing deepwater customer in the USA, [email protected], Company telephone and data commu- mented Pierre Thomas, IT manager, but it also shows how Sealink can be cus- tel +44 (0)20 7510 4937 nications will be provided through guar- Companie du Ponant.