Hong Kong Marine Department Adds ASC’s Autohydro 6.5 License to Its Operations

Hong Kong Marine Department has added the latest Autoship Systems Corporation’s (ASC) Autohydro 6.5 license to their operations, bringing the total of Autohydro programs to 3 installations. This order represents one of the longest marine software client-relationships in the industry to well over 20 years when the Marine Department first purchased Autohydro 4.0 in 1991.

Over this span of time, ASC has been supporting the naval architects at this Hong Kong location with software updates, on-site training and remote technical assistance with great success.

Autohydro is the state-of-the-art hydrostatic and stability program favored by naval architects due to its advanced GUI (graphical user interface) and robust abilities. Because the program is easy to operate and can perform detailed stability calculations quickly, comprehensive assessments, such as stability books, can be created with a minimum of effort. Release 6.5 adds new, significant functionality to the Probabilistic Damage assessment in order to handle recent changes to the rules for cargo and passenger vessels.

For Probabilistic calculations, ASC realized that setting up damage zones can be an onerous task and thus has simplified the operation by enabling Modelmaker to assess the penetration depths and produce a zone definition file for use in Autohydro. The above screen capture shows this process in action.

Local Vessels Safety Section (LVS) of The Hong Kong Marine Department provides the following services to customers in the region: certification for the compliance of safety including marine pollution prevention and stability requirements as required by law, carrying out approval of new constructions, initial and periodic surveys.

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Shipbuilding Tribune Staff, February 10, 2012; Image: autoship