Navigation safety has become one of the important issues to the entire world community. In order to solve the issue, Automatic Identification System (AIS) has been complied with safety and security regulations, functioning as collision avoidance, vessel traffic services, maritime security, aids to navigation, search and rescue and accident investigation. This paper presents marine navigation collision preventing system between ships and ships using AIS. The raw data was collected from the UTM AIS receiver station using OcAri system. In the system, the raw data from AIS is crossed with database based MMSI number to find detail information then, location of each ship was plotted on to Google Map. The safety distance is assessed based actual and stopping distance.
The efficiency of ships has become a hot topic in the maritime industry in recent years. Increasing fuel prices and also depletion of resources has raised concern to improve the quality of fuel and also improve the ship efficiency. Currently, more focus is given to environmental friendly ships so as to minimize the emissions and reduce the impact of global warming. Sustainability is also very important to protect our planet so that future generations also utilize the resources. There are various methods which can be used to improve ship efficiency one method can be following Shipboard Energy Efficient Management plan and also modifying the Engine by using Renewable Energy or Dual fuel to cut out the harmful Emissions. The shape of hull will determine the overall efficiency of the ship and will play a key role in minimizing the resistance offered by the waves. In this paper a study will be done to analyze which type of hull form is suitable for future ships and how we can make environmental friendly ships so as to improve transport efficiency and control carbon footprint so as to provide safer ships and cleaner oceans.
The electrical House is a complete power plant system that supplies the electrical distribution network to site. Installation this power plant system have used in the world wide especially in industrial, utilities, renewable energy, outdoor switchgear and moveable substation. In offshore industries, application of Electrical House (E-House) can be installed in Floating Production and Storage Offloading (FPSO). As the engineering work is procedural and repeatable and complexity process, thus, problem happens stemming which involves interdependent such as feedback and iteration in designing and fabricating process that affect the schedule of the project. Project management tools such as CPM, PERT and Gantt widely used to scheduling application do not address complexity of the interdependency and feedback iteration. In this research discusses scheduling of FPSO E-House module Fabrication Model using Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) method in order to address the complexity. Partitioning DSM process is to minimize the amount of iteration (iteration) within the process. As a result, reducing probability of iteration will affect to the time reduction to complete the project.
The rising of fuel price globally has adverse effects on the small-scale fishing industry. Presently, Malaysian small fishing boats use petrol (gasoline) outboard motor. However, petrol outboard engines have higher fuel consumption compared to diesel engines. The higher relative cost of petrol adds to the problem. Efforts to introduce diesel engines to the small boats are hampered by the size of the engines and the suitability of propellers. This paper describes a study to determine the potential using combination of surface piercing propellers and diesel engine in small fishing boats. An analysis of fuel consumption reduction will be presented, together with an economic feasibility study. This economic review will identify the fuel savings gained as to determine the simple payback period on the initial cost and conclude the viability of using the system in terms of fuel and overall monetary savings.
