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New Esri Ocean Industry Manager: Drew Stephens

Feb 15, 2013

Drew Stephens to lead Esri's Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Ocean and Coastal Environments Industry.Esri has hired Drew Stephens to expand the market for GIS within the ocean industry. Esri, the world leader in GIS, has accelerated…

Navis TOS Passes the Century Milestone

Feb 14, 2013

Navis SPARCS N4 Terminal Operating System (TOS) reaches critical milestone with 100 terminals globally. Navis, a part of Cargotec Corporation and the global technology standard for managing the movement of cargo through terminals, has reached…

AVEVA: Business Value Calculator Offers Savings

Feb 13, 2013

Aveva launched the Marine Business Value Calculator (BVC), an interactive application that illustrates the project cost savings, up to 30 percent across all disciplines, by adopting Aveva’s Integrated Engineering & Design solution.“We have…

Texas A&M Trains on Latest Technology

Feb 13, 2013

Maritime academy cadets at Texas A&M train on Rose Point ECS following a donation by Rose Point Navigation Systems. Maritime academy cadets at Texas A&M University at Galveston are now training on state-of-the-art electronic charting system software…

Seagull Reinforces Safety Message

Feb 13, 2013

Seagull has introduced two new computer-based training modules to help ships’ officers and crew managers to raise safety awareness among the seafarers under their supervision.Drawing on its partnership with ‘soft’ skills specialist Green-Jakobsen…

(Sub) Chapter M Finally Surfaces

Feb 12, 2013

For inland operators, Compliance, Safety & Technology make for heavy river traffic as software providers descend on a rapidly approaching, potentially lucrative niche market. Is there a panacea for subchapter M? Pending USCG Subchapter “M”…

YachtCloser Appoints Jim Coburn

Feb 11, 2013

YachtCloser, the yacht brokerage industry’s web-based contract management system, names Jim Coburn to its strategic advisory board.In this capacity, Coburn will work with the YachtCloser team on the development of new and innovative products…

WheelHouse Technologies Hires Production Manager

Feb 11, 2013

WheelHouse Technologies, Inc., provider of WheelHouse computerized maintenance management system as well as SeaKits Damage Control and Spare Parts Kits, has named Ian Morris its Production Manager as of February 1st, 2013. This newly established…

PortVision Commits Funds for US Ports, Waterways, Development

Feb 06, 2013

PortVision launches $500,000 grant initiative to help improve U.S. Port & Waterway efficiency, safety and security.PortVision®, a leading provider of business intelligence solutions for the maritime industry, launches the PortVision CONNECT initiative…

Noon Fuel Reports Don't Cut It Says NAPA

Feb 06, 2013

NAPA asserts that traditional noon reports don’t give the quantity or quality of data needed by owners in modern shipping.NAPA, a maritime software house for ship design and operations point out that bunker fuel readings for most international…

Columbia Container Terminal Orders Tideworks TOS

Feb 05, 2013

Tideworks Technology® announce that Barranquilla Container Terminal chooses its Terminal Operating System (TOS).Barranquilla Container Terminal is a joint venture between SSA International and Sociedad Portuaria del Norte (SNP). The new facility…

Keeping Track of Cruise Ship Passengers

Feb 05, 2013

SISCO's A-PASS® 6 Wireless Mobile Life Safety & Security Access Control System to be installed on 'Royal Princess'.The Royal Princess is the first of two 1082 ft, 141,000-ton prototypes joining the next generation of the Princess fleet in June 2013…

Haydn Jones Tapped to lead AWT International Ops

Feb 05, 2013

Experienced Marine Industry Executive to Lead Worldwide Management of Sales, Marketing, Strategic Business Development and Channel Partnerships. Applied Weather Technology, Inc. (AWT), is pleased to announce the appointment of Haydn Jones as the company's Director of International Operations…

SMD Integrate SeeByte Software in ROV System

Feb 04, 2013

Soil Machine Dynamics & Seebyte announce successful integration of SeeTrack CoPilot to SMD's work-class ROV system.The integration and trials, which took place in Fort William, Scotland, in mid-January, saw SeeByte’s SeeTrack CoPilot Software…

ECDIS Type-specific Training on CD

Feb 04, 2013

UK's Lilley and Gillie announce that their Navmaster ECDIS type-specific training CD-Rom is now available.Believed to be the first stand-alone type-specific training CD-Rom available to ship owners, Lilley and Gillie have taken the view that…

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