MARINE DEPARTMENT
HKSAR GOVERNMENT
Issue No. 30 January 2008
MD's 3D Full-Mission Ship Simulator System wins award
The Marine Department's Full Mission 3D Ship Handling and Environmental Simulation System (Simulator) has been selected as the winner of the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2007: Best Public Service Application (Innovative) Bronze Award. "The award was received by MD at a presentation ceremony held on January 21, 2007. The Simulator has been developed for the Marine Department Training Centre's ship handling training, pilotage training, ship bridge team building, and, research and analysis purposes," said Michael C.M. Chau, Senior Marine Ocer/ITMS.
continued on page 5 Chairman of Marine Department's Information Technology Steering Committee and Deputy Director, Mr Francis Liu (right), and head of the Information Technology Management Section, Mr Michael Chau at the awad presentation ceremony.
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HK Shipping Registry gets a facelift
New Medium Patrol Launches for Police
Enhanced safety of vessels for hire
200 attend navigation safety seminar
HONG KONG MARITIME NEWS
2007 was an outstanding year for world shipping and a nautical milestone year for Maritime Hong Kong which included welcoming BIMCO for their AGM in May and celebrating 50 years of the Hong Kong Shipowners' Association. The Hong Kong Shipping Register passed 36 million GRT, more cadets joined the Seafarer Incentive Scheme and the rst batch of graduates entered the new Maritime Scholarship Scheme at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. As we start 2008 and the Year of the Rat approaches, now is a time to consider the important issues facing our industry and how we can contribute to meet the challenge. I would ask we continue to work together to enhance quality control of our growing eet, to provide more opportunities for the next generation of captains and chief engineers to train and become qualied and to see how we can clean up the maritime sector's image from being a perceived hazardous industry to the safe and ecient engine of global trade that it really is. The sta of Marine Department and I look forward to working with you in the year ahead and wish you a safe and prosperous Year of the Rat. Roger Tupper

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