News

23.03.07

  International conference on towing and salvage of disabled tankers 2007.

Conference Programme (doc)

27.10.06

  Technical Conference "of ships with navigation difficulties" Port of Gijón Authority – Port Institute of Gijón.

26.10.06

  Consortium Meeting at the Port of Gijón Authority, Spain.

22.02.06

  Consortium Meeting at Teddington for Project partners.

11.01.06

  Technical Meeting in Bremen to finish the Software Integration

Project Summary

Project Goals

The overall objective of SAFETOW is to provide masters of vessels with tools to help them control their vessels if they become disabled and provide masters of salvage and escort tugs with tools which will enable them to take decisions in real-time with the best available information regarding the consequence of their actions.

Project Description

SAFETOW is a research project which is partly funded by the European Commissions 6th framework programme . The project started in march 2004 and is due to be completed in 2007. The aim of the project is to provide the captains of both ships and salvage and escort tugs, with tools to help them control their damaged vessels if they become disabled enabling them to make decisions in real-time with the best available information regarding the consequence of their actions.

The project will encompass an experimental programme which will collect the manoeuvring data, including collaborative manoeuvring with more than one tug. This data will then be analysed and used as a basis of validation for the simulation software. The software will then be integrated with the vessels' bridge systems to provide real-time help and decision support, training capability and monitoring.