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SOS: Asian Shipowners Unite on Piracy Shipowners from Asia gathered to form a massive human SOS as a demon- stration of their support for the interna- tional SOS SaveOurSeafarers campaign. The gesture was photographed during the meetings this week in Australia of the 21st Asian Shipowners Forum (ASF) which had piracy at the top of their agenda. In the last 7 years, 62 seafarers have died as a result of pirate actions, and getting on for 4,000 have been held hostage on some 200 ships hijacked by Somali pirates. " http://www.saveoursea- farers.com Dyneema Max Technology DSM, producer of Dyneema, intro-duced DM20, a new fiber designed for the production of incredibly strong ropesthat provide unrivalled strength, stiffness and durability. According to the com- pany, DM20 is a fiber that completely re- defines the capability of HMPE ropes and forms the basis of Dyneema MaxTechnology. This technology is devel- oped for the production of deepwater mooring ropes for oil and gas production facilities. Deepwater mooring rope spe- cialist Lankhorst Ropes Offshore Divi- sion is the first company to use Dyneema Max Technology. The company has de- veloped Gama 98, a new generation of high molecular weight polyethylene (HMPE) mooring ropes suitable for usein permanent deepwater moorings be- yond 2,000 m water depth. ABS to Class Advanced Drillships Ensco plc selected ABS as the class so- ciety for its ultra deepwater drillship to be built at the Samsung Heavy Indus- tries, Co. Ltd (SHI) Shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. The ENSCO DS-8 will be the sixth Samsung DP3 drillship in thefleet and will extend the benefits of Ensco?s fleet standardization strategy. With drilling capabilities in water depths to 12,000 feet and a total vertical drilling depth of 40,000 feet, this new vessel will meet the demands of ultra deepwater drilling. AWT, Transas Team for Bridge Solution Applied Weather Technology and Transas Marine announced an integra- tion of two key onboard tools ? AWT?s BonVoyage System (BVS) with Transas? Electronic Chart Display Navigation System (ECDIS) ? to help Captains fullyoptimize their voyage planning. With this union, Captains can transfer datafrom BVS to Transas Navi-Sailor ECDIS and vice-versa to efficiently and safely navigate their voyages. BVS is used by captains aboard morethan 4,000 ships to identify the safest andmost time-efficient or fuel-efficient routes to their destinations, given the lat- est weather and sea conditions as well asvessels' specifications. BVS 6.0 has fea- tures designed to help ship Captains andfleet managers reduce fuel costs and curbCO2 emissions. It also provides other in- novations such as 16-day forecasts up- dated four times daily, and 10 years of historical climate data for planning voy- ages longer than 16 days.Bit Oktania Enters Swedish Repair Yard Damen Shiprepair Götaverken (Gothenburg, Sweden) has taken an in- terest in the new rebuilding requirements that come into force in 2015, as recentlythe tanker ?Bit Oktania? from Tarbit Shipping is in one of its dry docks forregular maintenance. At the same time the vessel is being upgraded via the in- stallation of a catalyzer system to meetthe new environmental demands. ?We try to keep installation costs at the lowest possible levels to mitigate the high costs experienced by ship owners due to new environmental demands,? says Jos Goris, Managing Director ofDamen Shiprepair Götaverken. ?ABS Connect? Mobile Apps ABS launched a suite of products thatare desgiend to improve information transfer between the classification soci- ety and its clients around the world. ABS Connect looks to streamline communi-cations, placing more in-depth informa- tion in the hands of industry. During a press conference in London ABS Chief Technology Officer Todd Grove intro- duced the company?s new mobile inter- face for its website at www.eagle.org along with the ABS Bookshelf applica- tion. Currently available for download (at no charge) from Apple?s App Store, ABS Bookshelf is a mobile library ofABS? extensive publications, including the more than 100 Rules and Guidesavailable electronically and used in the design, construction and maintenance ofvessels and offshore structures to ABS classification. Schaefer Ventilation Acquires Americ Schaefer Ventilation designs, manufac- tures and markets fans and other ventila- tion equipment to agricultural, industrial,commercial and rental customers in theUS and abroad. Americ Corporation has been manufacturing and marketing a leading line of confined space ventilation fans and accessories to industrial and equipment rental markets in the US and abroad for over two decades. Schaefer has acquired the Americ brand, product designs, customer listsand other assets and will merge the Americ fan business with its own venti- lation business. LIEBHERR Delivers Cranes to Paranagua, Brazil LIEBHERR Container Cranes Ltd. re-cently delivered two Ship-to-Shore Con- tainer Cranes to TCP Paranagua, Brazil. The container cranes have a waterside outreach of 52.50m., span of 18m. andlandside backreach of 15.00m. Total lift height under spreader is 38m.80Maritime Reporter & Engineering News NEWSPEOPLE & COMPANIES Asian Shipowner?s Send a Message! Tarbit ABS ?Connect?MR June12 # 10 (74-80):MR Template 6/12/2012 10:29 AM Page 80