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BMT REMBRANDT: Ship simulation system for safer, smarter operations

DNV-certified ship simulation system delivering next-generation navigation, port feasibility, and training simulation — for when accuracy matters.

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Scalable. Certified. Proven. From desktop to full mission bridge simulation

BMT REMBRANDT (Real-Time Manoeuvring, Berthing and Training) is a proven maritime navigation simulation and analysis system, certified by DNV to Class A (full-mission), B (multi-task), C (limited task) and S (special task).

It provides unparalleled realism and hydrodynamic accuracy for simulating complex multi-vessel interactions, vessel behaviour and environmental conditions.

BMT REMBRANDT forms the core simulation engine powering our own DNV-accredited full-mission simulators and many others worldwide, including on-vessel installations used for manoeuvring training and planning.

The system’s scalability sets it apart - from a single laptop or desktop analysis setup, to portable mini-bridge simulators and full mission bridge environments. BMT REMBRANDT brings you high-fidelity simulation wherever accuracy matters — ashore or at sea.

We offer this capability through both consultancy-based analytical services and direct customer use under licence, providing flexibility to suit your operational and project requirements.

  • Supports safe navigation in increasingly congested and high-risk environments
  • Offers fidelity, flexibility and real-world integration
  • Delivers advanced scenario planning and litigation-grade investigations

Build smarter solutions through data-led decisions

Port and jetty design

Assessing coastal environmental impacts, hydrodynamic behaviour and water-flow predictions - modelling tides, currents, under-keel clearance, and tug strategies to verify safe approach, turning, and alongside operations for proposed terminals.

Marine pilot and tug master training

Supporting academies and professional development for pilots, tugmasters and bridge teams operating in complex conditions. Delivering immersive, bridge-team scenarios with realistic hydrodynamics, communications, and emergency drills to build proficiency and CRM.

Navigation scenario testing for new ship types or routes

Stress-testing passage plans and vessel designs against traffic, weather, and port constraints to identify hazards and optimise margins.

Marine accident investigations

Fusing recorded tracks, sensor inputs, and bridge audio to analyse causal timelines, rule compliance, and human-factor contributors.  Enabling the reconstruction of events and analysis of contributing factors.

Litigation support through forensic-grade simulation and playback

Generating auditable reruns of events with adjustable “what-if” parameters to assess liability and support expert testimony.

Testing and validation of maritime autonomous systems

This includes operational approvals through our Synthetic Environment Assurance Service and Human–Machine Interface (HMI) development.

Vessel design and performance validation

Providing a digital environment for design review and optimisation.

Complex simulation environments requiring DNV accreditation

Ensuring compliance and consistency with international standards.

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Features and benefits

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Safety through realistic simulation

Enhances maritime safety with realistic bridge and tug simulation for tug masters, pilots, and ship officers

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Evidence-based, low-risk training and investigation

Reduces training and investigation risk through immersive, evidence-based tools

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LIDAR- and bathymetry-driven port planning

Supports port planning and access evaluation using LIDAR and bathymetric mapping

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Portable pilot training - onboard or remote

Enables onboard or remote pilot training with portable systems

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Standards-aligned

Aligned with UK MOD and international safety and procurement standards

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Flexible multi-platform deployment

Multi-platform: Full mission bridges, 360° tug/OSV, laptop and mini-bridge setups

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Forensic AIS/VDR 3D replay

AIS/VDR-enabled incident reconstruction with high-fidelity 3D playback

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Sea-trial-calibrated hydrodynamic models

Precision hydrodynamic models calibrated with sea trials and pilot feedback

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Custom ship-handling consoles

Custom-built control consoles for realistic ship handling training

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Full bridge systems integration

Compatible with radar, ECDIS, GMDSS, S-57/S-100 ENC charts

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Configurable environmental conditions

Configurable environment settings: wind, swell, currents, visibility, traffic

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Built-in ship-water interaction physics

Built-in modelling of real-world phenomena: squat, bank effects, ship interaction

Success stories

BMT REMBRANDT office-based mini-bridge for STASCo

A number of terminal feasibility studies were supported using the STATSCo in-house BMT REMBRANDT system, as well as incident reconstructions to provide rapid insight.

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Supply of BMT REMBRANDT full DnV accredited bridge simulators

BMT REMBRANDT enables organisations and academies across Southeast Asia and other regions investing in state-of-art maritime training facilities to meet their training goals for highly qualified seafarers.

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The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board's NTSB installs BMT REMBRANDT

The US National Transportation Safety Board's Office of Marine Safety has installed our fully certified BMT REMBRANDT simulator system.

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Harland Wolff partners with BMT Rembrandt to demonstrate QEC readiness

BMT REMBRANDT was chosen by Harland and Wolff and utilised its latest S-100 compliant ENC platform, developed in close cooperation with the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office(UKHO).

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Cruise shipping state of art onboard training and lessons learned tools

We have secured multiple new licence contract wins for BMT REMBRANDT navigation simulator system, with cruise lines including Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, Seabourn in North America and P&O Cruises Australia.

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ETYFA construction of Cyprus's first LNG terminal

The import of natural gas (NG) in Cyprus is a project of national, cross-border and European importance.

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Quantitative marine navigation simulations

We carried out desktop ship-handling simulation to determine the impact of the marine environment on different types of vessels as they arrived and departed from the Sinopec West Point terminal.

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Assuring autonomy for USV MADFOX

As part of the Royal Navy's autonomy accelerator programme, NavyX required a robust, independent assurance process to support regulatory approval for their uncrewed surface vessel (USV), MADFOX.

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Certifying AEUK's ARCIMS with BMT SEAS

ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK (AEUK) needed to validate the autonomous capabilities of its ARCIMS platform against international maritime regulations, specifically the COLREGs, to ensure operational credibility and regulatory compliance.

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Concept Jetty Design for a Material Offloading Facility MOLF

We carried out the conceptual design of the MOLF, covering geotechnical and marine structural engineering design activities, as well as a number of specialist studies and surveys needed for adequately evaluating the options available.

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Marine navigation simulations for a material off-loading facility

We were appointed by Technip Geoproduction to carry out Conceptual Engineering Studies for a MOLF for Petroliam National Berhad (PETRONAS).

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Vessel simulation study for a proposed container terminal

We conducted marine navigation simulations related to the feasibility of developing CT10, a proposed container terminal, at south west Tsing Yi Island with regards to navigation safety and ship-handling.

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Success in statistics

A (full mission), B, C, S
Approved under DNV Classes A
30
years of development
360° tug/OSV
Full-mission bridge, mini-bridge, laptop
S-57 / S-63
support and S-100 data-enabled
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Enhancing BMT’s REMBRANDT vessel simulation suite with the new ROC simulation capability will use precision synthetic modelling to deliver step changes in realism and situational awareness. These advancements allow us to provide cutting-edge skills and training to aspiring students embarking on their careers and offer upskilling opportunities for the current workforce.

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Business & Qualification Development Coordinator at South Devon College

Meet the experts behind the tech

Phil Thompson

Dr Phil Thompson

Head of Commercial Product Development

Since joining BMT in 1992, Dr Phil Thompson has held various managerial and executive appointments within BMT’s global management consultancy. He currently leads the Simulation and Training Services business at BMT.

His extensive work in e-Navigation, Traffic Simulation, Digital Twinning and Digital Reconstruction Forensics has led to the world’s leading ship operators and statutory marine accident investigation bodies to adopt BMT navigation simulators for port planning and navigation training. Users include Shell, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and counterparts in the U.K., Australia and the Netherlands. Phil is also currently leading a number of joint industry developments in Autonomous Surface Vessels, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning and Machine Vision Capabilities and the impacts on Future Port Design.

Phil has held several Directorships with the Transport, Offshore and Marine Surveys divisions at BMT. Prior to joining BMT, he worked in underwater acoustics at BAE Systems and as a Professor at the Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech, U.S.A.

He has received a Civil and Structural Engineering doctorate from Newcastle University and an MBA from Durham University. Phil is registered as a Chartered Director with the UK’s Institute of Directors.

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Phil Thompson

Dr Phil Thompson

Head of Commercial Product Development

Since joining BMT in 1992, Dr Phil Thompson has held various managerial and executive appointments within BMT’s global management consultancy. He currently leads the Simulation and Training Services business at BMT.

His extensive work in e-Navigation, Traffic Simulation, Digital Twinning and Digital Reconstruction Forensics has led to the world’s leading ship operators and statutory marine accident investigation bodies to adopt BMT navigation simulators for port planning and navigation training. Users include Shell, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and counterparts in the U.K., Australia and the Netherlands. Phil is also currently leading a number of joint industry developments in Autonomous Surface Vessels, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning and Machine Vision Capabilities and the impacts on Future Port Design.

Phil has held several Directorships with the Transport, Offshore and Marine Surveys divisions at BMT. Prior to joining BMT, he worked in underwater acoustics at BAE Systems and as a Professor at the Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech, U.S.A.

He has received a Civil and Structural Engineering doctorate from Newcastle University and an MBA from Durham University. Phil is registered as a Chartered Director with the UK’s Institute of Directors.

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Latest news and insights

New collaboration advances autonomous maritime navigation

We have successfully partnered with ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK (AEUK) to advance autonomous maritime navigation by utilising our proprietary Synthetic Environment Assurance Service (SEAS) testbed. This collaboration rigorously assessed AEUK’s cutting-edge autonomous navigation system, ARCIMS, delivering critical insights into its decision-making capabilities and compliance with the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs).

BMT Collaborates on ROC + DOCK Project to Drive Maritime Innovation in the UK

BMT is collaborating on a decarbonisation project for the UK's maritime sector. In partnership with South Devon College and HydroSurv, BMT aims to drive clean and sustainable maritime innovation in the UK’s Southwest and beyond.

BMT's navigation training platform earns DNV Class A approval and Statement of Compliance

BMT’s expanded multi-bridge UK facilities secure DNV Class A approval and marks a milestone for ‘Version 7’ of BMT REMBRANDT navigational software.

Launch of major new navigation training centre in the United Kingdom

BMT's advanced 5-bridge training platform for Tugs and Ship Pilotage is launched and is already set to support multi-year training programmes with its state-of-art training facility.

BMT awarded contract by MoD to provide combined admiralty pilot training

BMT today announced that it has been awarded a Hydrodynamic Marine Simulator Training contract by the Ministry Of Defence to deliver new, optimal levels of safety, operational efficiency, readiness, and an advanced 5-bridge training platform capability in customised navigation training for the Admiralty Pilots and Tug Masters of the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers (QECC) in Portsmouth.

BMT REMBRANDT in the clouds

In cutting-edge trials BMT conducts its first-ever remote, simulator-based ship navigation training programme – the latest REMBRANDT digital configuration is a full mission DNV approved ship simulator solution that’s targeted at multiple training stakeholders, including those onboard and ashore, and benefits from de-risked and highly immersive learning environments.

Smart port software

Phil Thompson, Director, Simulation & Training Products, Critical Infrastructure, explains how software helps to ensure safe navigation in congested water spaces.

The next generation of navigation solutions

The growing size and number of vessels in the global cruise fleet requires the industry to set new standards for navigation technology to ensure it meet the highest standards of safety.
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