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LR conducts remote audit to offshore company amid COVID-19 travel restrictions

Lloyd’s Register conducted a six-day, three-person audit for a marine and offshore company through remote technology, due to the COVID-19 travel restrictions and challenges that the offshore sector is dealing with.

Specifically, LR conducted the remote audit for Whittaker Engineering Ltd.

The audit was implemented by two on-site auditors and one lead assessor working remotely completed the combined audit which involved a range of internationally recognised standards including the latest health...

https://safety4sea.com/lr-conducts-remote-audit-to-offshore-company-amid-covid-19-travel-restrictions/

New industry’s 3D printing project launched

3D printing of metallic components has significant potential for maritime and offshore industry applications. In this context, the online procurement firm in marine equipment, ShipParts.com, has signed a research collaboration agreement with Singapore’s Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP), and the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) with the aim to prove standards for the certification of metallic components produced by NYP’s Additive Manufacturing Innovation Centre (AMIC) for maritime application.

The...

https://safety4sea.com/new-industrys-3d-printing-project-launched/

Wärtsilä delivers its Vessel Traffic Solution to fogbound Peruvian port

Wärtsilä’s Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) will be delivered in the Port of Callao, in Peru, on January 2021 to ensure that port operations will be conducted in a safe manner, given that the port is frequently dealing with fog and haze.

Specifically, Wärtsilä will provide its technology to ensure uninterrupted port operations, while increasing safety levels and facilitating arrival, docking and departures for visiting ships.

The system consists of solid-state IALA Advanced radar, long-range thermal...

https://safety4sea.com/wartsila-delivers-its-vessel-traffic-solution-to-fogbound-peruvian-port/

ABS boosts e-learning training courses for safe operations

ABS Group recently launched an e-learning training platform in order further develop educational tools and provide professional training courses to technical crewmembers around the global. In fact, through this new training initiative, ABS goals to boost shipping industry’s operational challenges.

Specifically, the platform will feature on-demand courses to augment classroom training in the practice field of Cyber Security, Risk Management, Asset Reliability, Compliance Management and Process...

https://safety4sea.com/abs-boosts-e-learning-training-courses-for-safe-operations/

DNV GL, StormGeo to boost maritime data sharing

The weather service provider, StormGeo along with the Norwegian classification society, DNV GL shake their hands and inked an MoU in order to further develop digitalization and accelerate maritime data sharing within the maritime community.

Through their collaboration, both sides goal to boost the presence of StormGeo’s fleet performance management and weather intelligence solutions on DNV GL’s independent data platform, Veracity.

In fact, they aims to give customers of StormGeo, enhanced...

https://safety4sea.com/dnv-gl-stormgeo-to-boost-maritime-data-sharing/

Feasibility study on 3D model based approval completed

ClassNK, Japan Marine United (JMU), and NAPA have carried out a joint feasibility study on 3D model based plan approval using 3D CAD models as part of their technical investigation project.

Shipbuilding designs are transitioning from 2D drawings to those designed with 3D CAD software. Classification societies, whose plan approvals are also based mostly on 2D drawings, are now required to develop a scheme for 3D CAD models from their submission to their examination completion.

This project was...

https://safety4sea.com/feasibility-study-on-3d-model-based-approval-completed/

Rethinking maritime businesses for the digital age: the evolving role of ship agents

Traditionally, a ship agent (as a representative of the owner, the charterer -or both- of a visiting ship), ensures that the essential requirements for a ship visit are arranged and met. Therefore, Mikael Lind, Associate  Professor and Senior strategic research advisor at Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) in Sweden and Chalmers and Juan Carlos Croston is VP Marketing & Corporate Affairs with Manzanillo International Terminal (Panama), state that ship agents have an important monitoring role,...

https://safety4sea.com/rethinking-maritime-businesses-for-the-digital-age-the-evolving-role-of-ship-agents/

IntelliTug autonomous project completes its sea trials

The technology group Wärtsilä in collaboration with PSA Marine successfully completed IntelliTug project’s sea trials. In fact, through their initiative both sides aim to further enable autonomous navigation.

Specifically, IntelliTug was carried out in Singapore, while the trials first started back in September 2019.

These trials are Singapore’s first for commercial Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) with the use of the MPA MASS regulatory sandbox, which has been established to facilitate...

https://safety4sea.com/intellitug-autonomous-project-completes-its-sea-trials/

Israel Ports focuses on bill of lading blockchain

Israel Ports Company (IPC) recently developed a pilot project using blockchain technology in order to transfer digital bills of lading and examine how to streamline supply chain processes.

Through this initiative, Israel Port will create a joint database of all the authorised participants, giving them the opportunity to participate in transactions at the same time, without using paper documents.

In fact, with the use of blockchain, the company goals to advance security and reduce documents’ loss...

https://safety4sea.com/israel-ports-focuses-on-bill-of-lading-blockchain/

An electronic glitch can lead to large claims

Automation, digitalization and the use of ships’ data is today having a big impact on the maritime industry. While there is no doubt that cyber is a major growing risk in this area, Gard’s Jarle Fosen, Senior Loss Prevention Executive, Arendal, states that there is, however, still a more common, less hyped and maybe growing type of shipboard technology related risk that should not be forgotten – the reliability, breakdown and no fault found failure of electronics.

The digital data flow on...

https://safety4sea.com/an-electronic-glitch-can-lead-to-large-claims/

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