Kongsberg Maritime, via its subsidiary Simrad Spain SL, has completed the delivery of an NOK25 million (US$4.2 million) electronics suite for the advanced newbuild Spanish research vessel, Miguel Oliver. Installation of the Dynamic Positioning, heading reference, trawl monitoring and echosounder systems was completed in April 2007. The 70m Spanish Fishery Ministry owned vessel is in operation and has completed its first fishery research campaign in Hatton Bank. The comprehensive Kongsberg Maritime package onboard the Miguel Oliver includes several systems: Dynamic Positioning DP10; Radar DB10 and VDR; EM302, EA600, MDM400, SSU; Seapath 200 and Seapath 20; EK60 MultiFreq, ES60, FS20/25,...
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