The KONGSBERG 2017 Bathymetric Image Contest is now open for entries at http://www.kmcompetition.com/. All users of Kongsberg Maritime’s bathymetric systems, including the EM® family of single and multibeam echo sounders, the M3 sonar® and GeoSwath solutions are invited to submit their best images captured on these, and other current KONGSBERG systems.
Leading marine offshore services company, BOURBON, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Automated Ships Ltd to support the building of the world’s first autonomous, fully-automated and cost-efficient prototype vessel for offshore operations, in collaboration with the project’s primary technology partner, KONGSBERG.
Kongsberg has announced the limited availability of a new turnkey HUGIN package, featuring the synonymous state-of-the-art Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) and all systems needed to store, transport, launch, operate and recover it from survey operations anywhere in the world.
The University Of Gothenburg has chosen Kongsberg Maritime’s state-of-the-art HUGIN Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) to expand Sweden’s capabilities in the field of marine research using unmanned platforms. The HUGIN, which will be funded by grants from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and managed by a project team with representatives...
KONGSBERG has signed a contract with maritime technology company Havyard Ship Technology for the delivery of a complete FISHMASTER® Integrated Vessel Concept for a newbuild pelagic trawler. The vessel is a collaborative effort between Havyard Ship Technology and the Paris based fishing company France Pélagique.
Having established a good business relationship for many years, BOURBON and Kongsberg Maritime have now concluded a strategic partnership signing a collaborative development agreement on connected and autonomous vessels.
The innovative KONGSBERG Information Management System (K-IMS) has now had over 100 installations for vessel owners and charterers in the LNG sector. The milestone represents a significant breakthrough for KONGSBERG and the K-IMS product within the LNG market and demonstrates the growing acceptance of the system’s innovative approach to data-sharing for LNG vessel and fleet operations.
Alongside the most sophisticated Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) available for Mine Countermeasures (MCM), the KONGSBERG stand (C40) at Underwater Defence Technology (UDT 2017) in Bremen, Germany, will host Kongsberg Maritime’s advanced compact acoustics solutions, which are used on small platforms by Navies in Littoral areas for diverse missions...
The Maritime Administrator of the Marshall Islands has extended its approval of the sophisticated K-Fleet Logbook system, enabling over 4000 flag state registered vessels to introduce digital reporting for oil record and garbage record logbooks. The approval states that K-Fleet Logbook may now be used to fulfil the requirements of the Marshall Islands Maritime Regulations...
The vessel “YARA Birkeland” will be the world’s first fully electric and autonomous container ship, with zero emissions. Operation is planned to start in the latter half of 2018, shipping products from YARA’s Porsgrunn production plant to Brevik and Larvik in Norway.
The Aberdeen, UK-based Kongsberg Maritime camera systems group has successfully delivered a new large network IP CCTV system to Chantier Davie Canada for installation aboard the new Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) Auxiliary Naval Replenishment Ship, known currently as ‘Project Resolve’.
Kongsberg Underwater Technology, Inc. announced today that it successfully completed negotiations with CoMotion®, the University of Washington’s collaborative innovation hub, to obtain the sole rights to produce, market, and continue development of two new underwater glider systems.
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