BIBBY AND KONGSBERG UPGRADE

Bibby Ship Management India Pvt Ltd has contracted Kongsberg Maritime to deliver an offshore vessel simulator, including an upgrade of the customer’s existing dynamic positioning (DP) simulator in Mumbai.

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TRAINING MOVES MINDS NOT PEOPLE

Training simulators are very useful, especially when you need to show how difficult things can get, without endangering a vessel, crew or even getting your shoes wet.

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NEW DP EXAMINATION LAUNCH

Ship Modelling & Simulation Centre AS has informed us that they will be conducting the world’s first exams for Dynamic Positioning Operators according to the new DNV scheme at their training center in Trondheim, Norway on Friday the 1st of March.

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HIGHLY DECORATED SIMULATOR

When Det Norske Veritas (Norway) issued statement of compliance for the Transas navigational and DP simulators it meant that the Transas Navi-Trainer Professional 5000 holds the most advanced certificates set in the maritime simulator industry; it has been certified as a Bridge Operation Simulator Class A with class notation “Integrated simulator system, NAUT AW (SIM), DYNPOS – AUT (SIM), HSC, TUG, ICE, AHTS” and Dynamic Positioning Simulator Class A as per the latest edition of Standard for Certification of Maritime Simulators No. 2.14 January 2011.

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DEAL DONE BETWEEN BIG PLAYERS

BP and Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Gruppen, have signed an agreement to develop a suite of decision-support consoles. Read the rest of this entry »

DP TRAINING: DOING MORE ONBOARD

We have received a number of comments on the future developments of the DP Operators certification scheme. As DNV pushes out a new system and with the Nautical Institute (NI) assessing potential changes to the existing scheme, we are living, working and training in very interesting times. Read the rest of this entry »

K-MASTER TRAINING ROLLED OUT

Kongsberg Maritime Introduces New Training Course as K-Master Workstation Equipped Vessels Start to Leave Yard. Read the rest of this entry »

GOING NUCLEAR FOR THE FUTURE

There are many who see the aviation industry as a portent for training and human element developments in the maritime industry, and particularly the DP sector. Read the rest of this entry »

LEARNING LESSONS

In recent years there has been an increasing scrutiny of DP incidents, due, amongst other things, to high profile maritime incidents. Read the rest of this entry »

TOUCHING DOWN AT KINGS POINT

U.S. Merchant Marine Academy’s Village of Kings Point campus has entered an agreement between NASA and the Merchant Marine Academy to replace the institution’s previous training vessel the “Kings Pointer” with a former space shuttle solid rocket booster recovery ship called the “MV Liberty Star.”

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