Navigation Simulation & Mooring Studies

Our team has operational expertise to run the real and fast time ship-handling & manoeuvring simulation and static/ dynamic mooring simulation with following applications:

  • Manoeuvre rehearsal
  • Ship performance and operational assessments
  • Assessment of port arrangements (berths, channels, etc)
  • Assessment of tug requirements
  • Ship-handling training
  • Incident investigations
  • Mooring analysis
  • Passing ship analysis

    • Optimoor

    • We use OPTIMOOR to conduct mooring analysis. OPTIMOOR is an industry standard software with emphasis on practical applications.
    • The dynamic version (STS Module) makes use of a hydrodynamic model developed in collaboration between Newcastle University and BMT.
    • The ship manoeuvring theory is applied to mooring analysis to enable more accurate predictions of ship movements involving dynamic excursions due to changing forces.
    • The software considers the effect of all the environmental forces, and the resulting motion of the vessel in all 6 degrees of freedom (surge, sway, heave, roll, pitch and yaw) are accounted for.

    PC Rembrandt

    • We use BMT licensed navigation simulator- PC Rembrandt to evaluate options for harbour layout at planning stage. PC Rembrandt is also regularly and effectively used by pilots, ship operators, naval architects and port authorities for the assessment of:
    • safe operating limits under varying environmental conditions, including under-keel clearance
    • alternative methods of control, such as tugs and the optimisation of tug usage tug requirements for a given vessel under defined environmental conditions
    • risks for new or proposed berths, terminals, approaches and channel design
    • PC Rembrandt also assists in:
    • port familiarisation, manoeuvre rehearsals and verification of passage plans
    • training of officers and pilots in ship-handling and wide range of ship types

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