SSG No 10 - Shipgaz

KONGSBERG MARITIME
it & communications
Editor: Petter Arentz ~ Phone +47 33 40 12 00 ~ E-mail: petter@shipgaz.com
Kongsberg Maritime’s advanced Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Hugin 4500 being
deployed from a survey vessel.
KM’s Hugin 1000 to India
India’s National Hydrographic Office has
ordered six new surveying vessels at the
shipyard Alcock Asdown in Gujarat and
they want advanced Kongsberg Maritime
subsea systems onboard. Kongsberg Maritime
is to deliver Kongsberg Maritime
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)
and subsea systems valued at approximately
MNOK 350.
“The core of our delivery to India will
consist of Hugin 1000 autonomous underwater
vehicles, which will be used for
seabed surveying. Hugin AUVs are a world
leader when it comes to detailed surveying
of the seabed, and Kongsberg Maritime has
been delivering Hugin AUVs for more than
ten years,” comments Sales & Marketing
Manager Roar Marthiniussen of Kongsberg
Maritime.
“This is by far the largest contract in this
field to date. In addition to Hugin, the
order includes subsea positioning equipment,
multibeam echosounders and underwater
cameras,” adds Marthiniussen.
Hugin was developed through collaboration
between the Norwegian Defence
Research Establishment, the Royal Norwegian
Navy, Statoil and Kongsberg Maritime.
Cooperation began in 1995, and the first
Hugin was put into commercial use a
decade ago, in 1997, in the North Sea.
Grimaldi uses Sperry Marine bridge systems
Five new roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) vehicle carriers
being built for Grimaldi Group
Naples by Croatian Shipbuilding Corporation
at its Uljanik shipyard in Pula, Croatia,
for delivery in 2008–2009, will be fitted
with a complete suite of navigation and
communication systems to be supplied by
Northrop Grumman’s Sperry Marine business
unit in conjunction with Compania
Generale Telemar.
The navigation systems to be installed
on the five new ro-ro ships will be based on
Sperry Marine’s new-generation Vision-
Master FT technology. Grimaldi operates
one of the world’s largest fleets of modern
ro-ro vessels, mostly serving Europe, West
Africa and South America. The company is
also expanding its marine terminal business
with major new facilities around the world.
Sperry Marine provides smart navigation
and ship control solutions for the international
marine industry with customer
service and support through offices in 16
countries, sales representatives in 47 countries
and authorized service depots in more
than 250 locations worldwide.
Transas wins Sasmex award
Transas was a winner in the Training category
at Safety at Sea and Marine Equipment
(Sasmex) awards 2007 held in the UK
last month. The prize was presented for the
first ever distance simulation-based training
of oil spill and rescue response operations
based in Baltic region.
Thought to be the first of it’s kind in the
world, Russia, Finland and Estonia all
cooperated as part of an EU funded long
term project on Gulf of Finland Maritime
safety and marine Environment protection
Cooperation (Gofmec) which allowed crisis
response simulator training to take place
simultaneously in three educational establishments.
In order to achieve this, the maritime
educational institutes in these countries
were equipped with latest marine and crisis
management simulators from Transas’ simulation
division who interfaced Pisces II,
Navi-Trainer 4000, VTS and GMDSS simulators
to work as one unit in CMSC.
Telenor to service US agencies
Telenor Satellite Services, a subsidiary of
Telenor of Norway has received a General
Services Administration (GSA) Federal
Technology Service (FTS) contract to provide
a wide variety of mobile and fixed
satellite communications products and services
to the United States government.
Under the provisions of the indefinite
delivery, indefinite quantity contract, known
as Satcom-II, government agencies and
authorized government contractors can
continue to purchase services directly from
Telenor Satellite Services. A number of
Telenor’s service partners were also among
the companies awarded a GSA FTS Satcom-II
contract.
Sense Intellifield KM integrated
Sense Intellifield has become Kongsberg
Intellifield AS. The company will play an
important part in Kongsberg Maritime’s
commitment to developing new technology
solutions for Integrated Operations in
the oil and gas industry. Sense has offices
in Stavanger, Kristiansand, Oslo, Trondheim,
Houston and Aberdeen.
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