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Group executive vice president at DNV GL, Tor E. Svensen, will retire from the Norwegian/German class society on 1 August, it has been announced. Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen who succeeded Svensen as


chief executive officer of DNV GL’s Maritime business will move up to the Group EVP role, exactly one year to the day aſter both he and Svensen took their new positions. Aſter 23 years at the class society Svensen told Te


Naval Architect that he wants to pursue some of his own personal interests, but that he will remain in the maritime industry. “You have heard me talk many times about safety,” he said, “now I will get involved in the new thinking around safety barrier management at Strathclyde University.”


Cybersecurity Tor Svensen leaves DNV GL New approach for LR in


cyberspace UK-based class society Lloyd’s Register (LR) says the old prescriptive approach to risk management is no longer applicable to cybersecurity and that with the inter-connectivity of digital technology requires a holistic approach to security. In technical guidance issued to LR’s clients


the company emphasises a non-prescriptive, risk-based approach. “A ‘total systems’ approach is required taking into account all systems onboard and – critically – on shore, how they are designed and installed, how they connect, and how they will be managed,” says LR. Luis Benito, LR’s Marine Marketing Director,


commented: “ICT is revolutionising shipping, ushering in a new era – an era of the cyber-enabled ship. Today,


leading manufacturers and ship


operators want or have the potential to innovate using the latest ICT systems, going beyond traditional engineering to create ships with enhanced monitoring, communication and connection capabilities – ships that can be accessed by remote onshore services, anytime and anywhere for safety and performance benefits. Assurance of safety and security will require


owners and operators to reflect on six areas, says the class society; systems, human-systems, software, network and communications, data assurance, and cybersecurity.


Satellite technology Fleet Xpress flies in Arctic


DNV GL’s Tor Svensen is set to join the University of Strathclyde following his retirement from the class society in August this year


Svensen’s role at Strathclyde will be part-time,


spending 30-40% of his working time within academia, having “come full circle, I started in academia and now I will go back to academia,” he said. He added that Strathclyde is one of the leading


maritime universities in the UK with more than 100 PhD students on their books and the university offers him the opportunity to work with the renowned Professor Dracos Vassalos. Svensen said he will also pursue other personal


interests following his retirement, including advisory roles or lecturing, but he has not yet confirmed the details of this work.


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The hybrid Ka and L-band satellite service Fleet Xpress has successfully completed a trial in Antarctica following the installation of the system on the 1992 built cruiseship Ocean Nova. Inmarsat and Global Marine Networks along


with Network Innovations said that following the successful trial the group had received the first commercial order for the system from Nova Cruising Ltd. Using Inmarsat’s Global Xpress satellite network


the Fleet Xpress system delivered “the world’s first globally available high-speed broadband service from a single network operator,” claimed Inmarsat. Dr Luis Soltero, chief technology officer of


Global Marine Networks said: “Fleet Xpress delivered on its promise of high-speed seamless mobile broadband service in one of the world’s most difficult areas for most satellite systems. Antarctica requires low-horizon satellite views


The Naval Architect March 2016


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