Maritime Simulation News

(marinelink.com) Kongsberg Maritime AS, Simulation & Training has made an agreement with the Research Council of Norway to form a user-directed research program called SIMAR – Simulation of Demanding Maritime Operations – which is aimed at improving simulation training by enhancing focus on human factors. The main goal of the research project is to obtain [...]

(thedigitalship.com) (June 4 2010) Transas has been awarded a contract to supply simulation systems to be installed onboard two ships operated and owned by Intership Navigation (ISN). The ‘K Class’ capesize bulk carriers MV Lancelot and MV Percival, with a capacity of 178,000 dwt each, are currently being built at New Times Shipyard in Jing [...]

(defpro.com) Typical full mission shiphandling bridge. 18:06 GMT, January 29, 2010 Kongsberg Maritime announces the award of a contract valued at more than NOK 38 million to supply the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) with ship bridge simulation systems to upgrade the Navy’s training centre, located at HMAS Watson in Sydney, Australia. Scope of delivery The [...]

(bairdmaritime.com) Thursday, 19 November 2009 04:34 The pressure from some ship owners to consider shortening training time for watch officers prompted Jean-Pierre Clostermann, manager of ship handling simulation at the Le Havre Merchant Marine Academy in France, to bring objective, experimental results into the debate about how much simulators can replace at-sea experience. A rough [...]

(flightsim.com) VRinsight & Wilco Publishing announce Ship Console. Continuously expanding their products range, VRinsight and Wilco Publishing today announce the imminent release of the first product of its kind: Ship Console. Whether you are an expert sailor or a hobbyist, this control unit brings reality in your hands as you can manoeuvre your ship with [...]

(bymnews.com) Kongsberg Maritime is proud to announce that its Polaris Dynamic Positioning simulator is the first to achieve DNV approval to the stringent Class A standard. The leading simulator developer has also achieved DNV approval to Class A standards for its Bridge Operation simulator including class notification of DP, Ice Navigation, High Speed Craft and [...]

(seatradeasia-online.com) Kuala Lumpur: Kongsberg Maritime has been awarded a contract by HJS Maritime SDN. BHD, Malaysia to deliver two Polaris Ship’s Bridge Simulators for use in a new centre of excellence being built for the Malaysian Marine Department. This contract follows the recent installation of the world’s largest 360° marine navigation simulator at the Maritime [...]

(prnewswire.com) ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands and PANAMA CITY, Florida, August 18 /PRNewswire/ — Simulation developer VSTEP announces the worldwide release of their award-winning maritime training and simulation software Ship Simulator Professional v2.0 and Instructor Station at the International Conference on Marine Simulation and Ship Manoeuvrability – MARSIM ’09, in Panama. Aimed at maritime professionals, Ship Simulator [...]

(thejakartapost.com) SEMARANG: Rheimentall Defence Electronics (RDE) of Bremen, Germany granted a Ship Handling Simulator worth 10 million euro (about US$14 million) to the Semarang Growth Centre on Thursday. The simulator consists of a Full Mission Bridge; a Part Task Bridge Simulator; a Full Mission Engine Simulator; a Part Task Engine Simulator; an Arpa Simulator Radar; [...]

(bymnews.com) Transas Hellas in collaboration with Transas Mediterranean SAS supplied AEN – Epirus Merchant Marine Academy in Greece with a radar Bridge Simulator. The installed simulator will provide the necessary training with its capability to simulate various types of merchant ships. Among the other academies, the aforementioned simulator is the most modern and will contribute [...]