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COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

SAIT RadioHolland Releases

Call Logging, Management

Software

At the beginning of August,

SAIT Radio Holland released a new call logging and management software dubbed @SEA(log) for

Windows. The system is designed to provide easy-to-use Windows interface and a fully integrated help manual to assist users to log and report ship-to-shore traffic efficiently and accurately. It also will reportedly help onboard per- sonnel reduce administrative time. @SEA(log) includes a sophisti- cated Least-Cost-Routing (LCR) calculator, which is designed to provide information enabling onboard personnel to select which station to use for the lowest cost of a call for a particular service or destination. The system is also fully integrated with @SEA(mail), the SAIT-RadioHolland vessel e- mail package, according to Erik

Ceuppens. @SEA(log)'s LCR displays the

Land Earth Station used, the air- time cost per minute or per kilobit, the land line coast, the currency amount, and whether the call is peak or off-peak. New features are numerous, and include automatic cost calculation of Inmarsat A/B/C multi-address telex messages, A/B high-speed data simplex and duplex; and radio call logging.

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Dataworks Appoints New

Distribution Manager

Software specialist, Dataworks (U.K.) Ltd., has appointed

Graeme Brown as its new distri- bution manager. Mr. Brown will work with Dataworks' existing international network of agents, and will strengthen the company's market presence and contacts overseas. Prior to joining

Dataworks, he spent 10 years spe- cializing in information technology at The Baltic and International

Maritime Council.

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Cunard QE2 Carries Out

Safety Exercise With LR

Cunard Line recently carried out an emergency response exercise on board its flagship Queen Elizabeth 2, with Lloyd's Register Ship

Emergency Response Service (LR

SERS), to test the procedures to assist the ship in an emergency involving structural damage.

Cunard enrolled its entire fleet in

SERS along with the Queen

Elizabeth 2 in September 1995.

SERS is a 24-hour, 365-days-a- year land-based technical support service for ships in the event of an accident. A team of experienced naval architects assisted by a com- puter model of each ship in SERS, and advanced PC-based damage calculation and simulation soft- ware developed by LR, can predict how the stability, strength, oil out- flow and floatability of a damaged vessel will respond to various pro- posed remedial actions. Martin

Pittilo was LR's lead surveyor for the QE2!SERS exercise. "Exercises are a practical way of helping to ensure that ship emergencies can be handled smoothly and efficient- ly," he said.

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