McMurdo’s S4 RESCUE Search and Rescue Transponder (SART) has been awarded Chinese Type Approval by the China Classification Society (CCS). The S4 RESCUE is a 9 GHz X-band RADAR transponder...

Simrad is launching a sophisticated new range of gyrocompasses for professional applications. The 80 Series consists of the GC80 and GC85, which are both fully approved by the IMO. In...

Norcontrol IT has become the majority shareholder in Norwegian radar technology company Applied Radar Physics (ARP), which has been involved in radar technology for over 15 years and is located...

Hydrography students at the Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz (MIWB) in the Netherlands deploy former Rijkswaterstaat survey vessel Octans for many practical exercises in accordance with FIG/IHO guidelines. Formerly based at...

ATLAS ELEKTRONIK has received an order from the Polish Border Guard worth €5m for a coastal surveillance system. The pilot scheme will provide surveillance of the Polish coastline from the...

The Canadian Ice Service (CIS) has awarded RADAR-SAT-1 with another one-year contract for the supply of data for its ice-chart mapping services. With this contract, valued at CAD $1.1 million,...

Reefership Marine Services, Dole Food in-house vessel management group, was responsible for the installation of C-MAP charts on Polish-built reefer vessels in 1994. The contract with C-MAP was terminated at...

Two member companies of ATECMAR , EADS Defence and Security Systems SA and SODENA (well known in the field of electronic chart systems) have just been awarded the contract for...

A SAM Electronics’ NACOS 35-4 integrated navigation system has been installed on the QE2, as part of a major three-week refurbishment project completed in May by Germany’s leading repair and...

Simrad has released a new Class A AIS unit designed to reduce the overall cost of ownership, in order to meet the budget demands of owners and operators required to...