Tag: ECDIS

Highlights from the ADMIRALTY workshop 'Implementing your ECDIS procedures', including advice on ECDIS adoption and migrating to new IHO ENC security standard S-63 1.1, which becomes mandatory on 1st Jan 2014.

The shift from paper charts to ECDIS and the challenge of adapting to different ECDIS models are the focus of the latest issue of The Navigator - The Nautical's Institute free thrice-yearly magazine for marine navigational officers.

Transas Marine has announced the integration of MeteoGroup weather data in Transas FleetView Online SSAS-tracking software. With this integration Transas will have one global weather data supplier across the company's navigation product range. Utilisation of weather service from the MeteoGroup in the FleetView Online (FVO) is a key advantage to Transas customers. FleetView Online weather interface provides current and 5-day forecasted weather data over the entire chart folio, displaying sea conditions such as wind, waves and swell, current and other weather elements. Presentation of MeteoGroup's weather forecasts is already implemented in the Transas Navi-Sailor ECDIS either through Navi-Planner voyage planning software or via an interface between Navi-Sailor ECDIS and MeteoGroup's SPOS program, and will allow for similar data presentation and management across all systems used onboard or ashore. FleetView Online is a security protected web-based SSAS-Tracking service that provides processing and distribution of SSAS Alerts and displays vessel's position anywhere in the world anytime. FleetView Online operates with Transas ShipGuard Inmarsat D+/ISAT M2M/IsatData Pro terminals as well as with a wide range of Inmarsat C and Inmarsat mini-C terminals installed on-board. Vessel tracking through Fleet Broadband and a range of terrestrial & space-based AIS services is also available. Source: Transas ...

Transas Marine has announced today integration of MeteoGroup weather data in Transas FleetView Online SSAS-tracking software. With this integration Transas will have one global weather data supplier across the company's navigation product range.

ECDIS manufacturer Transas Marine was awarded a contract for the supply of Dual ECDIS to ULTRAGAS. ULTRAGAS has ordered Dual Navi-Sailor ECDIS Multifunction Display (MFD) sets with Radar overlay for installation onboard of five additional vessels. The order also includes delivery of the Transas Admiralty Data Service (TADS), official SENC service from Transas and Admiralty Information Overlay (T&P Notices to Mariners). ULTRAGAS will be using Transas' 'Pay As You Sail' service which will allow for a licensed access to view and pre-plan in official charts at no extra cost. All systems will be supplied by Transas Marine during January 2014. Source: Transas  In the start, I was open with you propecia before and after has changed my existence. It has become much more fun, and now I have to run. Just as it is improbable to sit.

ULTRAGAS is an owner and operator of highly specialized vessels for transportation of LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gases) and petro-chemical gases with years of experience in this demanding segment of shipping.

Innovative maritime electronics manufacturer, Martek Marine, releases its one-of-a-kind ECDIS offering to the market today. Named the iECDIS, Martek's is the first model to integrate a GSM modem, offering automatic download and installation of charts, updates and notices to mariners, reducing the administrative burden associated with CD updates. The GSM modem uses a mobile network signal to keep iECDIS up to date anywhere with mobile signal, even downloading the most recent piracy warnings and weather forecasts which can be instantly overlaid on the chart display itself. Designed and built to military specification for ultimate durability, iECDIS is available on lease as well as outright purchase. This allows for a very flexible commercial model and gives the purchaser the option to try before buying. The cost saving from leasing can be transferred for system integration, crew training and chart licensing and means that vessels can always have the most advanced system on the market. Bentley Strafford-Stephenson, ECDIS product specialist at Martek Marine, explains: "We've created a market-leading solution which combines cutting edge technology with a very lucrative commercial proposition and a system which mariners will want to use and ship managers will find easy to adopt. It's a rugged piece of ...

Innovative maritime electronics manufacturer, Martek Marine, releases its one-of-a-kind ECDIS offering to the market today. Named the iECDIS, Martek's is the first model to integrate a GSM modem, offering automatic download and installation of charts, updates and notices to mariners

A NAUTIS Desktop Trainer classroom and two class A NAUTIS FMB simulators were purchased by the Korea Institute of Maritime and Fisheries Technology (KIMFT) in Busan, South Korea. All simulators are part of the upgraded maritime simulator training wing at the Busan Campus. The KIMFT was formed in 1998 from the merger of the Korea Fishing Training Center with the Korea Maritime Training and Research Institute and is one of the leading Maritime Universities in South Korea. The KIMFT purchase includes two NAUTIS Class A Full Mission Bridge Simulators and instructor station, as well as a classroom of 12 NAUTIS Desktop ECDIS/Navigation Trainers. NAUTIS is a new generation of DNV certified maritime simulators developed by VSTEP. The simulators were delivered and installed at the KIMFT premises by NAUTIS developer VSTEP and its Korean partner SamWooSoft Co., Ltd. The simulators provide students at the university with the latest in advanced DNV certified maritime simulation technology. Dae-Hee Kim, SamWooSoft CEO: "We are very happy with the NAUTIS simulators provided by VSTEP. The open architecture of NAUTIS allowed us to develop many customizations that were requested by the client in a limited amount of time. The bridge lay-out was changed during the implementation ...

A NAUTIS Desktop Trainer classroom and two class A NAUTIS FMB simulators were purchased by the Korea Institute of Maritime and Fisheries Technology (KIMFT) in Busan, South Korea.