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r Computerized Vessel Management —Twin City (continued from page 21) used for position tracking, trip fi- nancial posting, barge contracts, barge and boat repairs, and manage- ment summaries. It is an on-line entry and retrieval tool that tracks barges and boats on any waterway system. Dispatchers, traffic clerks, and accounting clerks enter, in- spect, and maintain their respective data in the system. Movement in- formation, equipment location, con- tract status, and trip status are available for management decision- making. The Harbor Billing System is an on-line system for harbor transactions. It produces reports showing fleeting, switching, and harbor work by customer, by fleet, and by boat. Circle 85 on Reader Service Card ULTRA PRODUCTS SYSTEMS The Ship Efficiency Analyzer provides instantaneous calculation of fuel rate, propulsion plant effi- ciency, and fuel consumption. Data is derived by real-time events, in- cluding actual torque and shaft horsepower values, shaft rpm, ship speed, and fuel consumption. It has the capability for computer-to-com- puter data transfer between the shipboard system and the home of- fice microprocessor, Fleet Efficiency Analysis Terminal (FEAT). Circle 86 on Reader Service Card VESON MARINE COMPUTER SYSTEMS Designed to run on the versatile and powerful Convergent Technolo- gies computers, Veson programs cover the full spectrum of ship man- agement tasks. The ACT-2000 Sys- tem is a complete one-step account- ing, bookkeeping, accounts payable, general ledger, and reporting pack- age. The system can accommodate any number of ships and several hundred vendors. All the files ex- pand automatically. PAY-2000 is a one-step, user-interactive system for office payroll. Any number of employees can be processed. VOYAGE 2000 is an interactive voyage estimating package that in- cludes an optional sensitivity analy- sis report. PERFORMANCE-2000 is a decision-support system that monitors voyage performance and makes comparisons with charter party or company standard per- formance. MAINTENANCE-2000 is an on-board vessel maintenance monitoring system that stores de- tails of equipment and components, along with maintenance require- ments, automatically projects main- tenance requirements for upcoming periods, keeps maintenance log- books, and prints reminders. SPARES-2000 is an inventory control system that may be used either on-board or in the home office. CARGO-2000 is a charter in- formation system for cargo brokers that can be interfaced with the VOYAGE 2000 system for selection of vessels that best fit a given cargo. DISTANCE 2000 contains distance tables on more than 1,050 ports, along with other information on each port. The system presents users with all possible routes be- tween ports, and as a result more than 5 million in total can be re- trieved. LUBE-2000 is a software package for monitoring vessel lubri- cants. Circle 87 on Reader Service Card VOCAM SYSTEMS The Vocam Distribution Control System is an on-line, fully inte- grated program designed for record- ing shipment details, freight bill paying, linking to a manifest, and analyzing distribution factors. The system can record details of individ- ual shipments, including the origin and destination, commodity, car- rier, times and costs, and all trans- portation details can be recorded through an on-line link to the ship- ping manifest. The Freight Bill Pay- ment System provides an interface with the business accounts payable function. The system operates on 2250 Prime hardware. Circle 88 on Reader Service Card HANS W. WYNHOLDS COMPANY The Integrated Shipboard Infor- mation System (ISIS) contains modules for spare parts inventory control, preventive maintenance, shoreside purchasing, shipboard payroll, and satellite data communi- cations. The Spare Parts Inventory Control System (SPICS) gives in- formation on inventory status and stowage location for more than 8,000 parts. The Shoreside Pur- chasing System (SPS) takes requisi- tions from the shipboard system and processes them into purchase orders. Purchasing and delivery sta- tus is transferred back to the ship- board system. The Preventive Maintenance System (PMS) pro- vides flexible scheduling of tasks, and facilitates and expedites track- ing and record-keeping. A direct in- terface with the SPICS allows ac- cess to parts status and location. The Shipboard Payroll and Over- time Reporting System (SPORS) tracks and records payroll, over- time, disputed pay, allotments, ad- vances, fines, and slopchest for all crewmembers. The Shipboard/ Shoreside Data Communications System maintains a vital, efficient link between the computers at the corporate office and aboard ship. Circle 89 on Reader Service Card Marconi Introduces The New Oceanray SAT-COM The INMARSAT Ship Earth Sta- tion is now a familiar aid to ship- to-shore communication, but the latest compact station from Mar- coni International Marine features several simplifications that make it an economic, easy-to-use and install system. Full free literature is available de- scribing the new unit in detail. The Oceanray above deck unit incorporates a 0.9-m dish, gyrosta- bilized and only 150 cm high in the radome. The radio frequency pack- age, including control unit and pow- er supply, can be positioned either within the radome unit or separate- ly, above or below deck. On the bridge, or in the vessel's communications control area (for it is anticipated that the unit will be fitted to a range of vessel types and sizes with a variety of communica- tions arrangements), a single cable connection from the above deck unit provides the input to a range of pos- sible terminal hardware. In its sim- plest form as a ship-shore communi- cating device, the Oceanray uses a standard pushbuttom telephone and operating instructions are given via a voice synthesizing unit to allow operation by personnel with a mini- mum of specialized training. In this mode standard features of the ter- minal are: automatic routing of calls via the nearest satellite, though with a manual over-ride to allow selec- tion of Coast Earth Station call routing; priority given to distress calls coming in, plus security system over-ride priority also given to out- ward distress calls. Terminal facili- ties also included allow use of future developments in the INMARSAT system, including Ocean Area cod- ing and response to fleet and Na- tional Group Identity number which have recently been intro- duced in addition to ship's INMAR- SAT identity numbers. Further hardware can be added to give fac- simile and high and low speed data transmission capability. The Oceanray, priced under $30,000, is available through Mar- coni's U.S. distributor, CMC Com- munications, Inc. For free copies of the Oceanray SAT-COM literature, Circle 29 on Reader Service Card Ingram Purchases Assets Of Ohio Barge Line And Mon-Valley Transportation E. Bronson Ingram, president of Ingram Industries Inc., recently announced the purchase from United States Steel Corporation and its subsidiaries, Ohio Barge Line, Inc. and Mon-Valley Trans- portation Company, of substantially all their marine assets. OBL's 15 boats and 516 barges will almost double the size of Ingram Barge Company, the subsidiary of Ingram Industries, which will operate the combined fleet and assume the nu- merous Ohio Barge Line affreight- ment contracts. "Ingram and OBL have comple- mentary traffic patterns and com- plementary fleets. In combination we will be one of the largest and most efficient carriers in the indus- try." Ingram had previously dou- bled its dry cargo barge fleet in the last 18 months, thus establishing itself as a major carrier on the Upper Mississippi River. With the combined Ingram/OBL fleet, In- 22 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
