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BRABO awards MARIN major upgrade contract


Courses 2014


Offshore Hydrodynamics Wageningen, March 31 – April 4 ‘Hydrodynamics of Floating Offshore Structures’ gives an overview of the latest developments including extreme metocean conditions, wave impacts and motion and mooring analysis.


Ship Hydrodynamics I


Wageningen, April 7-11 In this course the various hydrody- namic aspects (resistance, propulsion, manoeuvring, seakeeping) are pre- sented in a balanced and integrated way. The physical background as well as the techniques and tools available today will be dealt with.


EEDI Verifiers


Wageningen, June 16-20 This course will help make participants fully conversant with ship propulsion theory, design practice, resistance and propulsion model tests, extrapolation procedures and coefficients, as well as the conduct and analysis of speed/ power trials within the EEDI framework.


Offshore Hydrodynamics


Houston, October (date: TBD) Three-day Houston edition of the ‘Applied Hydrodynamics of Floating Offshore Structures’ course (see above).


For more information and registration: courses@marin.nl or www.marin.nl/courses


The Antwerp-based pilot organisation BRABO has granted a major upgrade contract for its Full Mission Simulator to MARIN. This award is especially impor- tant because it is the first time MARIN’s simulation technology DOLPHIN will be delivered to third parties.


MARIN has to achieve three major mile- stones as part of the contract. In early 2014 the latest version of its MERMAID simulation technology will be delivered and this will be followed by two sequential deliveries of the first DOLPHIN releases in mid-2014 and early 2015. BRABO is responsible for all vessel handling


inside the huge Port of Antwerp and has approximately 100 pilots and boatmen. As well as pilotage the organisation also deals with line handling and other activities. The first project that MARIN conducted with BRABO was in 2008 with the delivery of the Full Mission Simulator. In the following years, the facility served its core purpose as a pilot training facility but it has also been used for quite a few nautical safety studies investigating possible changes to the wet infrastructure. MARIN is pleased with the confidence that BRABO has shown in the organisation and it looks forward to entering the next era and continuing this strong relationship.


Asia Pacific Maritime March 19-21, 2014


For the first time MARIN will be present at Asia Pacific Maritime in Singapore. Meet us at stand J37 within the ‘Maritime by Holland’ Pavilion of HME (Hall E) to discuss the latest technologies we offer the shipping and offshore industry.


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