Autoship Systems Stabilizes Offshore Industry
Autoship Systems Corporation (ASC) is pleased to announce that the Offshore Simulator Centre (OSC) in Aalesund Norway have decided to incorporate Autoload® 3D on-board loading software into their real time simulator system.

Anchor handling courses at OSC will now be able to handle and train operators in the stability aspects of the process alongside the practical aspects of anchor handling and other advanced offshore operations.

The loading condition for a given anchor handling operation will be prepared in Autoload, and the vessels floating position and dynamic motion response will be according to correct mass / mass distributions and free surface effects.

Loads introduced by the anchor handling operation will be fed back to Autoload, so that the vessel’s floating position, stability and motion response will be correctly updated.

The data will be exchanged automatically during the simulation.

At the same time, ASC is also pleased to announce that they have established Autoload Services, a collaboration arrangement between ASC, and the Autoship Dealers; Coastdesign Norway, David Henry Architecture Navale and AutoShip Systems UK.

By combining the technical, organizational experience and capacity of these three Dealers, with the proven track record of ASC, Autoload Services will be able to deal with the high demands of the fleet-wide sales and implementation of Autoload software, and in addition will provide world-wide training and emergency response services, using the Autoship Dealer network and other associates.

Offshore Simulator Centre is an initiative taken on behalf of the offshore community by Farstad Shipping ASA, Rolls-Royce Marine AS, Norwegian Marine Technology Research Institute (Marintek) and Aalesund University College.

By putting together the competence of a major international operator of modern offshore supply vessels, a global leader in marine propulsion, engineering and hydrodynamic expertise, the leading Norwegian research institute in marine technology and a major institution for higher maritime education in Norway, OSC has a solid basis for its work. For more information, email info@offsimcentre.no.

ASC is the leading developer of on-board stability software and CAD/CAM marine design programs. Autoload has an installed base of around 450 vessels and Autohydro® currently has over 1,200 installed users making it the No. 1 program of its type in use across the marine industry. For more information please email sales@autoship.com.