These Russian Register regulations are intended to establish the general procedure of transferring the formal right to use the SMS Mark of Compliance to the shipping companies. Such Mark is the protected sign used by the RMRS for encouragement of the shipping companies acheving significant and adequate success in the field of the safety management of their vessels.

Russian Register is the sole owner of the Mark. Scope of Application - Normative Reference Documents - Terms, Definitions and Abbreviations - Appearance, Condition and Transferring the Rights to Use the Mark - Description of the Key Factors, Recommendations on the Evaluations of these Factors - Policy and Responsibility of the Company - Personnel and Resources - Emergency Preparedness - Non-conformities and Maintenance - Documentation Required for the Efficiency Analysis of the SMS of the Shipping Company - Formal request Form for the SMS Mark - Self-Assessment Procedure of the Efficiency - SMS Excellence Model - Factors Forming the Key Areas and Weighting Coefficients - Associated RS Software and Instructions.

Definitely needful publication for those dealing with maintaining the efficiency and safety management of the company and willing to keep them on the highest level to get the SMS Mark of Compliance. May be supplementing these RS Guidelines.   

This practical guide released by The Nautical Institute has been originally intended for the masters and mates of the ships equipped with the DP systems; moreover, its content is expected to be useful to all people willing to get some good knowledge on the DP arrangement and working principles.

The book covers such an important matters as dynamic positioning principles and systems, redundancy and different classes of DP equipment, operations of the vessels with DPS installed on board, watch keeping and operational planning, position reference systems and power plants, propulsion units and thrusters, human factors to bear in mind, DPS operator training.

There is guidance provided for masters on how to conduct proper assessment of the competency of DPS operator candidates. Note that the book has been supplemented by a concise yet quite comprehensive Glossary describing the commonly used DP-related terms and abbreviations.

Though this publication is not expected to be a complete treatise on DP, it is still aimed to the people transferring to work on the DP ships from more conventional ships, not making any attempt to replace the standard textbooks on DP systems or going too deep into the individual manufacturer's DP systems.

Here is the pack containing the full latest release of the Digital Catalogue developed by RS Company professionals. This software is fully compatible with all Windows OS including older and newer versions; it provides users with the choice of more than eighty-five thousand of the most widely-used and ordered items, collected by RS Components Ltd.

The users are now given opportunity to perform immediate comparisons between various offered brands and ranges, make necessary notes, bookmarks and save favorites. Moreover, there are new functionalities allowing users to create their own product catalogues so that they can easily find whatever they are looking for. There is no need for any cracks or passwords.

And, of course, there are no viruses inside. Note that the present release of the digital catalogue allows users to work offline (in case any problem with the internet connection is there) - it also contains direct links to the online database allowing users to access all available offers and updates, making it possible for the to choose between more than half million products.

This is definitely the best and quickest way for the shipping industry professionals to find whatever electrical items they require to storing ships - cables and wires, automation and control gear, power supply and transformers, security and safety items, batteries, lighting, plumbing, adhesives, connectors, relays, computers, test and measurement equipment etc.

Nowadays, composites are extensively used in various marine applications. The glass reinforced resins are in quite considerable use in boats, yachts and even some ships; however, as a rule, they are not too highly loaded. However, for several new fields like offshore energy there is a huge demand for the high load-bearing structures that shall survive extremely harsh environmental conditions for dozens of years.

That is where the high-performance composite materials are proposed. The present volume will provide a good technical overview of the methods of predicting the durability of marine structures made of the composite materials. The author has covered the modeling water diffusion, accelerated testing, damaged that is commonly induced by the water, in-service experience as well as the other aspects considered important.

This book gives the fundamental knowledge and shall therefore be considered essential reading for all people involved with composite construction materials in the marine and offshore industry, from the design and calculation stage up to the manufacture of the structures and their service exploitation. Note that most of the info contained in this volume is nearly unavailable elsewhere...

Since dock masters are not marine or structural engineers, they are not commonly expected to be able to design dry docks. However, they should know how to operate their docks in a manner that would allow to avoid the operational limits of the dock that were originally set by the designers.

A fundamental understanding of how exactly dry dock is designed and constructed will provide required insight into the operational limitations derived. In turn, this technical knowledge will assist dock masters when they are performing the assessment of the situations not meeting standard procedures.

The book starts with descriptions of the main types of dry docks, followed by the chapter addressing the docking plan. The third chapter of the manual lists and explains the vessel characteristics considered important when dry docking, while the rest of the chapters are dealing with the block loading, stability matters, block construction, predicting the condition of the ship at undocking, established dry docking procedures, ship handling, pumping plan and tips on its developing, certification of the dry dock, ratings and inspections, transfer systems. The book concludes with several solved problems providing necessary practical information. An excellent training source for the dock masters.

This last part of DP Training presentations addresses the dynamic positioning systems power and thrusters. The previous parts of the training set covered the DP Applications and DP Incidents and we strongly recommend you to get familiar with the content of those two presentations in order to get better understanding.

This part is covering the main types of thrusters, popellers, rudder effectiveness, alternative rudder, Becker rudder, Flap rudder, Schilling rudder, controllable-pitch propellers, azipod basics, the principle of the azipod, azipod propulsion history. The authors of the presentation have included numerous practical examples and have well illustrated the booklet so that it could serve as a good and easy-to-use training manual.

The approach used by the author has remained unchanged and this training source can easily be used by the non-experienced personnel willing to know more about the DP systems, their construction, their operation, application and potential consequences of the failure in these systems.

The present training presentation is containing some interesting reported system incidents. It is very useful to watch such case study and analyze them in order to get more knowledge of what can happen when and if the dynamic positioning system is improperly used or when the DP fails for some reason. For instance, the BHN disaster is discussed as well as other cases.

This presentation may be used together with other presentations dedicated to the DP Applications and DP Power and Thrusters. Again, the authors have followed the same path and have mainly concentrated on the visual presentation of the training material in order to make it easily understandable for people with little to no theoretical knowledge and practical experience in the field of operating the DP systems.

Absolutely recommended even to the people not directly engaged in DP operations but still willing to understand what that all if for and how it works. Obviously, going through the lessons learned after the incidents is one of the best ways to properly understand the consequences of malfunctioning positioning systems of human element involved...

This nice training presentation has been specifically developed to shed some light on the most popular operational applications of dynamically positioned vessels - drilling, FPSO (standing for the floating production storage and offloading), diving and underwater operation, remotely operated vehicles, pipe-lay operations, well stimulation, pipeline bury and trenching operations, crane barge and rock dumping operations, dredging, cable laying and repair, flotel operations and field service, OSV, i.e. offshore supply vessels as well as AH, i.e. anchor handlers, military operations, passenger, cargo and heavy-lift vessels etc.

The information included in this file by the authors is mainly visual and in fact such approach will definitely be appreciated by the people who prefer clear and easily understandable explanations with no formulae and deeply technical texts. Even non-mariners will get some picture of the application of DP system if they spend some time with this training document. Note that we may also offer you the presentations on DP Incidents and DP Power and Thrusters.