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look forward to continuing the work together with them and Xiamen Shipyard during the vessel construction.” Special focus in the concept development was put on hull form development, weight control, energy efficiency (including waste heat recovery) and improvement of the General Arrangement. Deltamarin succeeded in making the new concept 10% more energy efficient than Viking Grace. Now that the Viking Line ship contract with XSI has been confirmed, Deltamarin will continue with the basic and detail design of all disciplines for the yard. Deltamarin will also support the yard in project management as well as passenger vessel building process requirements and provide supervision services during the production of the newbuilding project. When delivered in 2020, the new ropax vessel will operate on the Finland – Sweden route, connecting Turku, Åland Islands, and Stockholm, as part of the European Union’s Motorways of the Seas project. The vessel will have a 2800 passenger capacity and 1500 lane metres. In addition to running on liquefied natural gas (LNG), the vessel will have two 24m-high rotor sails installed. AUTONOMOUS SHIPS MSC TO ASSESS SAFETY OF AUTONOMOUS SHIPS The International Maritime Organisations Maritime Safety Committee has agreed to include the issue of marine autonomous surface ships on its agenda. This will be in the form of a scoping exercise to determine how the safe, secure and environmentally sound operation of Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) may be introduced in IMO instruments. The MSC recognised that IMO should take a proactive and leading role, given the rapid technological developments relating to the introduction of commercially operated ships in autonomous/unmanned mode. The scoping exercise is seen as a starting point and is expected to touch on an extensive range of issues, including the human element, safety, security, interactions with ports, pilotage, responses to incidents and protection of the marine environment. The exercise might include identifying IMO regulations which, as currently drafted, preclude autonomous/unmanned operations and should address different levels of automation, including semiautonomous and unmanned ships. A key aspect of the exercise will be to provide definition of what is meant by an "autonomous ship". Delegations suggested the exercise should include scoping of the full range of human element factors within different levels of autonomy for both shipboard and shore-based personnel; scoping of the reliability, robustness, resiliency and redundancy of the underlying technical, communications, software and engineering systems; and consideration of conducting a Formal Safety Assessment or gap analysis as to the safety, technical, human element and operational aspects of autonomous remotely controlled or unmanned ships. The MSC also agreed that proper consideration should be given to legal aspects, including where the responsibility would lie in case of an accident involving a MASS, its consequences to the cargo, and also the implications to the shoreside. It is anticipated that the work would take place over four MSC sessions, through to mid-2020. CYBER SECURITY CYBER RISK MANAGEMENT RESOLUTION ADOPTED The International Maritime Organisations Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) adopted a resolution on Maritime cyber risk management in safety management systems. The resolution reminds stakeholders that the mandatory International Safety Management (ISM) Code includes a requirement for all identified risks to ships, personnel and the environment to be assessed and for appropriate safeguards to be established. The resolution encourages Administrations to ensure that cyber risks are appropriately addressed in safety management systems no later than the first annual verification of the company's Document of Compliance after 1 January 2021. The MSC also approved the joint MSC-FAL circular on Guidelines on maritime cyber risk management, based on the interim guidelines on guidelines on maritime cyber risk management (MSC.1/Circ.1526), following the recent approval of the circular by the Facilitation Committee. The Circular provides high-level recommendations for maritime cyber risk management, which refers to a measure of the extent to which a technology asset is threatened by a potential circumstance or event, which may result in shipping-related operational, safety or security failures as a consequence of information or systems being corrupted, lost or compromised. The guidelines include background information, functional elements and best practices for effective cyber risk management. 18
SOFTWARE PRIMESHIP-HULL FOR BOX SHIPS RELEASED ClassNK has released the latest version of its structural design support software for container carriers. PrimeShip-HULL for Container Carriers consists of prescriptive calculation software and direct strength assessment software and offers improvements in the quality and efficiency of ship design. It includes a prescriptive calculation element that enables designers to perform assessments for structural strength requirements such as yield strength and fatigue strength assessments as specified in ClassNK’s Rules for the Survey and Construction of Steel Ships, in addition to longitudinal strength requirements specified in IACS Unified Requirements S11A. It also features a function to create a model of transverse members as well as longitudinal members, and a function to assess outside the cylindrical part of hull structure including the fore and aft part. A direct strength assessment feature includes a function for the torsional strength assessment of the hull. The updated software, in response to latest rules, enables designers to perform torsional strength assessments by superimposing stress components generated by working hull girder load on an FE model of an entire ship. ClassNK’s Dr. Toshiro Arima, Director of Rule Development Division, said: “To promote container carrier safety, ClassNK released amendments to its Rules and Guidance for the Survey and Construction of Steel Ships on 1 June 2017. In a further demonstration of its unwavering commitment to safety, ClassNK updated PrimeShip-HULL for Container Carriers to incorporate these latest rule amendments. The software update also including various improvements based upon users’ feedback will further increase the efficiency and quality of container carrier structural design.” RULES & REGULATIONS NEW BV RULES SUPPORT HYBRID POWER TAKE-UP French classification society Bureau Veritas has issued a new chapter to rules for electric and hybrid power solutions. The new notations power management (PM), power back-up (PB) and zero emission (ZE) standards are aimed at encouraging the wider uptake of energy storage systems (ESS). "Industry uptake of hybrid and battery technology has been driven by environmental regulation. But owners are also finding performance benefits and, for some operations, significant financial benefits seem likely – particularly as the availability of renewable energy increases,” said Martial Claudepierre, Bureau Veritas Business Development Manager. Innovation has been led by the cruise and ferry sector. However, Claudepierre believes wider adoption is being anticipated. Electric power provided by an ESS can be used to reduce local air emissions when in proximity to centres of population. It can also be used when a ship is in port, during manoeuvring or alongside or in emission control 19
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