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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

BMT Aims To Reduce Ship

Maintenance Costs

British Maritime Technology

Ltd. (BMT) has announced a $3.5 million development project which will reportedly reduce the cost of maintaining the performance and safety of large vessels throughout their full life cycles. Dubbed

OPTIMISE (Optical Maintenance

Intervention on Ships in Europe), the new project was scheduled to commence last month under man- agement by BMT, along with a consortium made up of BMT

SeaTech Ltd., BP Shipping, British

Steel, Kockums Computer

Systems, Rontgen Technische

Dienst and Verolme Botlek. The project will receive $2 million through the European

Commission's ESPRIT program.

OPTIMISE is a multi-end, user driven project with the overall objective of developing new

Information Technology tools to manage the high level data which can be obtained through the use of improved and emerging, non- destructive equipment (NDE) technology. The software and hardware will be developed under

OPTIMISE, with self-propelled magnetic crawlers to monitor cor- rosion and weld conditions. The data will be fed to a Ship Model database, which will integrate

NDE data with a design and con- struction database, and form the basis of a defect-model simulation component using models for corro- sion, fatigue and crack growth.

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BV, RINA Offer Software

For SOLAS Compliance

Bureau Veritas (BV) and

Registro Italiano Navale (RINA) have developed a software pro- ram designed to help ship opera- ors and naval architects comply ith amendments to the SOLAS onvention. Dubbed BULK, the oftware is designed to assess the tructural strength of watertight, ertically corrugated, transverse ulkheads and double bottom tructures in bulk carriers. It uses graphic Windows interface to nput data and run calculations, ts output will provide a compre- ensive view of compliance and e strength criteria admissible in e new Unified Requirements of e IACS for transverse bulkheads nd double bottom structures.

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HydroComp Updates

NavCad Software

HydroComp, Inc. has released the latest version of its ship propulsion software NavCad.

Version 3.6 offers new and enhanced features from its prede-

The HydroComp NavCad 3.6 main screen, cessor (NavCad 3.5), including the capability of analyzing waterjet- powered vessels. NavCad is a tool for the prediction and analysis of vessel speed and power perfor- mance. It also provides for the selection of suitable propulsion system components such as engines, gears and propellers.

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ULSTEIN

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BY THE MARKET

Ulstein controllable pitch Compass thrusters and fixed pitch Z-drive thruster systems have proved their unique flexibility since being introduced more than 30 years ago. Today our thrusters are in operation throughout the world in a wide range of applications.

The thruster units are suitable for all types of applications, such as tugs, offshore vessels, diving support vessels, fishing vessels and ferries. For these vessels a manoeuvring precision and speed of response are of utmost importance, which are easily achievable with fully azimuthing thrusters.

Power ranges from 100 - 7000 kW.

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N-6065 Ulsteinvik, Norway

Tel.: +47-70 01 40 00

Telefax: +47-70 01 40 17

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Fax: 1-604-942 1100 1-604-942 1125

ULSTEIN USA INC. 2701 Delaware Ave.

Kenner, LA 70062, USA

Tel.: +1-504-46 44 561

Fax:+1-504-46 44 565

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When Space, Weight, or Cost is a Problem,

Technology Takes Over!

You can take a large amount of bridge control and monitoring functions and shrink them down approved data buss that eliminates the cable runs to the bridge while still controlling and monitoring all systems assigned.

The process is as easy as faxing us an 8^2 x 11 inch sheet of control and monitoring items and we will provide a return fax of a panel design which does it all in a fraction of the space, weight, cable and labor associated with the traditional method. Two wires to the panel shown does it all.

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