Kongsberg Digital has actually won an agreement with Turkish shipowners and also drivers Güngen Maritime & & Trading A/S for distribution of a K-Sim Cargo Handling Simulator, interfaced to an actual KONGSBERG K-Chief 600 aquatic automation system. The K-Sim Cargo simulator version reproduces a contemporary Suezmax crude-oil vessel, showing the format and also requirements of Güngen’s very own vessels.
Operating in tandem with the K-Chief 600, the incorporated system will certainly be utilized by Güngen to enhance the business’s regimens for freight handling along with training, screening, and also confirming the skills of the company’s team.
Upon distribution, the high-performance simulator system will certainly have the exact same number and also appropriate quantities of cargo/ballast containers as Güngen’s genuine crude-oil vessels, while all pumps and also pipes will certainly have the exact same attributes. Inert gas and also freight furnace depictions will certainly additionally be consisted of.
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All substitute devices and also performance will certainly supply a really comparable reaction to the team as they will certainly experience when utilizing the genuine systems after they come on board. In enhancement to the K-Chief 600 user interface, the simulator version will certainly additionally have a ballast water therapy control system.
The simulator system will certainly be set up at the shipowners’ workplace. New staff members will certainly go through inner simulator training prior to joining to the business’s vessels, and also the training will certainly lower the overlap time required aboard when brand-new staff members join.
“We have had a very positive experience in training crews on simulators integrated with the same equipment as is found on board our tankers,” statesCapt Tugrul Vural, in charge of taking care of Güngen’s training facility. “Back in 2008, we bought a KONGSBERG simulator integrated with KONGSBERG’s K-Chief 500 to train our crews and improve our routines. Since this approach has been hugely successful, it was natural for us to come back to KONGSBERG when we needed a new type of cargo simulator model with an interface to the latest K-Chief 600.”
“Güngen is a company with high ambitions when it comes to setting and applying the International Standards of Liquid Cargo Transportation,” includes Tone-Merete Hansen,Sr Vice President,Kongsberg Digital “We delight in to be able to supply simulators which are especially adjusted to Güngen’s training and also confirmation requirements, and also are certain that our simulator systems will certainly remain to assist in enhancing the security and also sustainability of the business’s delivery service.”
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