SOCP
Piney Point, Md. Meeting to be Webcast Live on October
7 via TVWorldwide.com’s Maritime TV Channel
Positive Response from Past Meeting Webcasts Continues
to Drive Sponsorship for Web Coverage of Ship Operations
Cooperative Program (SOCP)Meetings
at www.maritimetv.com
Past Webcast Sponsors Include MARAD, Maersk Lines Ltd,
Horizon Lines, LLC, and NOAA
For Immediate Release
Monday September 29, 2003
Chantilly,
Va.- MaritimeTV.com, an Internet TV channel on the TVWorldwide.com
network, announced today that it will provide live webcast
coverage of the Ship Operations Cooperative Program (SOCP)
meeting to be held Ocober 7 in Piney Point, Md. The webcast
will also be archived for later viewing as with past SOCP
webcasts at www.maritimetv.com
The
agenda to be featured during the webcast of this meeting
includes speakers Captain William G. Schubert, Maritime
Administrator, RADM Thomas Gilmour, USCG Assistant Commandant
for Marine Safety and Environmental Protection, Ms. Marjorie
Murtagh, National Transportation Safety Board and Mr.
Anil Mathur, Alaska Tanker Company CEO. Presentations
include: Short Sea Shipping; Smart Tow; Intermodal Freight
Opportunities on the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway System-SE
Michigan, along with technical presentations on GPS Based
Cargo Tracking Systems; and Cargo Container Advanced 3-D
Scanning which will round out the first day’s agenda.
“We’re
very excited to again be offering the meeting proceedings
on the web to allow members who could not attend the opportunity
to tune in live for interactive participation,”
commented SOCP organizer Todd Ripley of the U.S. Maritime
Adminstration. “We appreciate the sponsorship participation
from our membership to make this possible.”
“The
SOCP webcasts we’ve done on the Maritime TV Channel
provide a whole new perspective to an SOCP meeting,”
stated Dave Gardy, Chairman and CEO of TVWorldwide.com.
“In the past years we saw how these webcasts worked
to enhance communication among maritime industry professionals,
part of the SOCP mission. We look forward to doing it
again in Piney Point, Md. This is part of our ongoing
effort to make our new MaritimeTV channel a community
forum, driven by interactive video content relating to
the industry.”
Participants
should have the free Real Player installed on their browser
prior to the event and should log on by 8:45 AM ET on
October 7. Technical questions can be directed to 703-961-9250,
ext. 223 before and during the event. The event will be
archived through a link on the SOCP home page to www.maritimetv.com
for later viewing by those who couldn’t attend live
and also made available for syndication to interested
maritime sites nationwide.
About
the Maritime TV Channel
The
Maritime TV Channel (www.maritimetv.com), specializes
in the production of video-based content for the international
maritime community. Streaming video service provider TVWorldwide.com,
is building a network of Internet TV Channels like Maritime
TV Channel, each aimed at B2B and special interest audiences
worldwide. TVWorldwide.com’s CEO, Dave Gardy is
a 1980 marine engineering graduate of the United States
Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y.
About
SOCP
The purpose of the SOCP is to address and promote commercial
operations through the identification, development, and
application of new methods, procedures, and technologies.
SOCP’s overall objective is to improve the competitiveness,
productivity, efficiency, safety, and environmental responsiveness
of U.S. vessel operations. All U.S. based vessel operators
and organizations that support vessel operations are eligible
to participate in the program. With the support of the
Maritime Administration (MARAD), industry, labor, and
Government are working together to address common challenges
and identify new solutions for improvements in ship operations.
This cooperative program allows members to participate
in research which would not be economically feasible on
an individual basis, or possibly even within a single
area of the industry. Information about new technologies,
systems, or procedures that would otherwise not exist
is made available to all Cooperative members.
About
TVWorldwide.com
As a leading streaming video applications service provider,
TVWorldwide.com is developing a network of video channels
that is an affiliation of community-based Internet television
stations, each underwritten by a strategic partner, "aimcastingsm"
to targeted B2B and special interest demographic audiences
worldwide. TVWorldwide.com works with strategic partners
to develop the latest in live and archived state-of-the
art video streaming content applications. TVWorldwide.com
was recently named one of the streaming video industry’s
“Hottest Streaming Companies” by Streaming
Magazine, www.streamingmagazine.com.
