Maritime Reporter, May 2002

<BODY> <div> News Heidenreich Marine Reorganizes Companies Heidenreich Marine has reorganized to pool partners and to facilitate Heid- mar's growth in oil transportation and related industries. A new parent company, which will be called Heidmar Inc. will be formed to provide oversight of all the Heidmar companies and to manage the strategic growth of the organization. Per Heiden- reich, currently the president of HMI. will become the Chairman and CEO of Heidmar. Charles Tammara, who is currently a vice president and CFO of HMI, will become an executive vice president and CFO of Heidmar. Timothy Brennan, who has been with HMI for almost ten years and is current- ly a vice president and general manager of Chartering and Operations, will become the new President of HMI. HMI will continue to be responsible for the commercial management for all ves- sels under Heidmar's commercial con- trol and will continue to serve as the general agents for the Star Tankers Pool Heidmar Business Structure MITAGS' new full-mission simulator employs the latest generation of photo-textured on-screen graphics, advanced ship maneuvering capabilities and a complete Raytheon™ integrated bridge system utilizing Kamewa™ joystick control systems for steering and ship maneuverability. Through the use of STN Atlas designed removable bridge equipment sections, the MITAGS Raytheon Integrated Bridge System (IBS) is configurable and adaptable to many different types of shiphandling and bridge resource training. ^ . ^ Maritime Institute of Technology & Graduate Studies (MITAGS) "sfiS*-^ Pacific Maritime Institute (PMh c/) o < Pacific Maritime Institute (PMI) Call: 443 989 3235 e-mail: admissions@mltags.org 5700 Hammonds Ferry Road Linthicum Heights, Maryland 21090 www.mitags.org Call: 206 441 2880 e-mail: info@stcw95.com 2333 Third Avenue Seattle. WA 98121-1711 www.stcw95.com EjEu MITAGS is certified as a Maritime Education & Training Centei by Det Norske Veritas MITAGS the leader in STCW-95 training offers 29 USCG approved courses including: Electronic Navigation • Chiefmate/Master Upgrade • Fast Rescue Boat • Bridge Resource Management & Shiphandling Medical Person in Charge • Basic Safety Training • Basic & Advanced Firefighting • Tankerman Person in Charge (PIC) • Crowd and Crisis Management • Heavy Weather Avoidance • Global Maritime Distress & Safety Systems and the Dorado Tankers Pool. All Information Technology activities within the Heidmar group will be con- solidated into one company, which will be called Heidenreich Innovations Inc. Fritz Heidenreich, who is currently HMI's Vice President of Information Technology, will become the President of HII. In addition to providing shipowners with Q88.com and QBulk.com, HII will also market its Vessel Management System as QFleet.com, which will provide shipowners, ship managers and charter- ers with a web-based program that cal- culates voyage results, maintains voy- age statistics, keeps track of vessel posi- tions and provides real-time voyage information. Circle 36 on Reader Service Card www.maritimereporterinfo.com Transas Breaks Through Visual Technology Transas is introducing the next gener- ation of its visual presentation system based on the new Transas visualization technology. Circle 240 on Reader Service Card or visit www.maritimereporterinfo.com The new software, which has been named Seagull_Vis 4000, represents the synthetic environment in the most real- istic form, and also includes a number of advanced effects designed specifical- ly for marine applications developed to further improve the efficiency of simu- lator-based training. In this visualization version, extensive work has been performed to achieve the best possible quality of the running time representation application using the lat- est developments in the OpenGL tech- nology. Specifically, the new Transas visual- ization system incorporates a super- quality 3-D sea model with dynamic bump mapping surface texturing. Circle 53 on Reader Service Card www.maritimereporterinfo.com Maritime Reporter & Engineering News </div> <span id="lblContents"></span> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/" title="Digital Magazine">Digital Wave Publishing</a> </BODY>