OMC
OMC International (OMC) is a specialist company providing consulting services and operational systems to the international maritime industry.
OMC has developed award-winning e-Navigation technology to improve transit for large commercial ships in draft restricted entrance channels and waterways, the Dynamic Under-keel Clearance System. DUKC® determines and manages a ship’s Under Keel Clearance dynamically and in real-time, and is the only independently validated and widely operational real-time under keel clearance management technology.
DUKC® has assisted more than 120 port facilities, terminals, and waterways safely and efficiently conduct more than 160,000 deep draft transits. Utilising state of the art modelling, forecasting, and data assimilation techniques that have been proven against more than 550 full scale vessel measurements, DUKC® is the world’s most comprehensive and extensively validated UKC management system.
DUKC® is also used extensively for channel design and dredge optimisation. Integrated port planning, real-time operations, and dredge optimisation through DUKC® has allowed ports to realise dredging cost savings of up to 90%. Overall dredge volume requirements, and the associated environmental impacts, are also minimised. A recent example combining an operational DUKC® with DUKC® optimised channel design allowed a client to reduce their dredged area by 90,000m2, and the channel depth by 0.6m to 1.4m.
In addition to DUKC®, the services and systems provided by OMC to our clients include:
- Optimised channel dredging design and planning
- Under-keel clearance studies
- Horizontal navigation and vessel manoeuvrability studies
- Fast time simulations using SimFlex4 from Force Technology
- Full scale vessel motion measurement and analysis
- Probabilistic analysis and risk assessments
- Operational static UKC management (KeelCheck)
- Measured & forecast environmental data displays (PortWeather)
- Optimisation of Port throughput using our Dynamic Port Capacity Model
- Mooring analysis – deep sea, CBM, conventional and suction pad mooring systems
- Moored vessel motion and mooring line warning systems (Berth Warning System, BerthAlert)
- Hydro/meteo analysis, modelling and forecasting
- Hydro/meteo data processing and quality assurance
126 Trenerry Crescent
Abbotsford
Victoria 3067 Australia
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For the first time we have held a Young Maritime Professionals’ Innovation Pitching Competition and we introduce here below the six finalists with their names, positions, organisations and Linkedin profiles
The competition is sponsored by Svitzer
An Automated Future
Kayode Akinrinlola
Business Excellence Officer, Associated British Ports
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayode-akinrinlola-96309b110/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/associated-british-ports/
Modern Sextant
Nick Bonser
Senior Advisor Nautical & Hydrography
Australian Maritime Safety Authority
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nbonser/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/australian-maritime-safety-authority/
Risk Management & Modelling for MASS
Ricky Rouse
Marine Pilot – Newcastle, Port Authority of New South Wales
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickyrouse/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/portauthoritynsw/
Integration of Existing Quayside Equipment into the Automated Port
Jay Stephens
Project Engineer, Fendercare Marine
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-stephens-503375131/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/fendercare-marine/
Port Integrated Intelligence
Isabel Waterfall
Marine Operations Officer Apprentice
and
Matt Rattenbury
Port Marine Operations Officer, Associated British Ports
https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabel-waterfall-308b70133/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathew-rattenbury-amni-303024162/
Relationship between recreational navigation and commercial or fishing ports is complex. Recreational vessels sometimes operate and berth in locations that are not ideal from the point of view of the integrated management of the coastal zone.
Interactions and conflict
Different uses and different interests on coastal segments can cause conflicts and risks that are difficult to manage. Sometimes a portion of an existing fishing, industrial or commercial port is converted to recreational boating use. This may happen as a result of specific intent within the context of a long-term port master plan, but sometimes is only a spontaneous response to the demand by recreational activities. Especially in the latter case, interactions between different kinds of traffic may lead to conflicts and may also cause unsafe and/or unsustainable situations.
Minimising potential conflict
The aim of this report is to identify best practice recommendations for the operation, planning and design of recreational navigation to minimise potential conflicts with other types of traffic and seek a new approach to positive synergies with fishing communities.
Here the intention is to generally assess the cause and effects of these conflicts, analyse data relative to accidents between recreational and commercial vessels, and to present case studies that illustrate some of the general trends, in order to reach useful conclusions.
