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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Shipbuilders Team Up With

Intergraph

An international consortium of ship design and construction com- panies led by Newport News

Shipbuilding (NNS) has joined forces with Intergraph Corp. to develop an advanced engineering and ship design software products.

The goal of the project is to reduce the time and cost of designing ships by 50 percent.

Intergraph expects to install the first versions of the new software at the sites of the shipbuilding par- ticipants in early 1999.

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BV Upgrades VeriSTAR

Monitoring System

Pictured is the owner data screen display of

BV's VeriSTAR version 3.

Bureau Veritas (BV) has released version 3 of its lifetime hull condition monitoring system

VeriSTAR, making the system available to all of the maritime industry - specifically shipowners and mangers.

The VeriSTAR database, which is unique to each vessel, consists of two parts.

The owners' data section enables users to handle and store their own information. This is supplemented by a BV data sec- tion, which is used to examine cal- culations on the ship's structure.

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Lloyd's Register ISM Support

Package Hits The Web

Lloyd's Register's (LR) nternational Safety Management

ISM) Code Practical Pack, esigned to help shipowners and hip operators achieve certification nder the Code, is now available n the Internet. Visitors to the lassification society's Web site www.lr.org) can download in MS ~ord 6.0 simple, concise explana- ory material on the Code, togeth- r with draft manuals and plans, ntended to give companies a head start in setting up their safety management systems. They can also order by e-mail the complete

LR ISM Practical Pack. Early this year, the free guidance pack was judged joint winner in an indepen- dent review of ISM support pack- ages carried out by a panel of ISM experts. The complete pack con- sists of draft documentary materi- al, both as booklets and on 3.5 in. disc in MS Word 6.0 format, which individual companies can tailor to build up their own manuals and plans for compliance with the ISM

Code. The manuals and plans in the pack include: Safety

Management Manual; Company

Procedures Manual; Fleet

Instructions Manual; Shore-based

Contingency Plan; and Shipboard

Contingency Plan. The pack also includes a video which gives an idea of what is expected from a

The Safeguards you don't see...

Tug escorts and double bottoms help safeguard the environment but the best safeguards you don't see - they are trained people.

Competent mariners who have been afforded the opportunity to practice operating procedures and react to emergencies can and do prevent mistakes before they happen.

This is why ARCO, BP, Crowley and other respon- sible carriers, have worked with MSI San Diego to develop an interactive simulator training program for tanker escort operations where tanker, escort tug and emergency response vessel operators interact with Port, Coast Guard and VTS stations.

For the past year, MSI has been conducting joint, monthly courses for tug and tanker operators who must train together as a team.

Whether aboard a tanker, an escort tug, a response vessel or ashore at a terminal or VTS station, it takes coordinated skills to assure a safe passage. When quick reaction counts, each par- ticipant must know his job and understand that of the others.

A full program of joint courses is scheduled for 1998. Even now, MSI is preparing a simulator response model for ARCO's new Millennium

Tanker for use in future training.

For a complete list of courses, ship models and geographic/hydrographic port databases, please call us at any of the following locations: MarineSafety international

New York, NY (718) 565-4180

Newport, Rl (800) 341-1353

Norfolk, VA (757) 423-2320

San Diego, CA (619) 231-3333

Rotterdam, The Netherlands +31 10 486 66 54

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