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Kongsberg Maritime www.kongsberg.com/maritime

Horten, Norway-headquarteed Kongsberg Maritime, led which is the HUGIN Endurance. This latest addition to the

Egil Haugsdal, President and CEO, is a global force in mari- already successful HUGIN range of AUVs is a real game- time and subsea technology with more than 7,250 employees changer: with an operational duration of around 15 days, it in 117 of? ces across 34 countries. Its products, systems and provides a low-carbon solution for extended shore-to-shore services cover all industry sectors, from subsea, offshore, inspection missions which KONGSBERG is con? dent will naval and merchant market segments to ? shing, aquaculture, revolutionize tasks such as offshore wind surveys. Equal- exploration and scienti? c research categories. Key projects ly at home in shallow water or depths up to 6,000m, the and concepts which embody this pledge in a subsurface con- HUGIN Endurance has 1,200 nautical mile range and can text include the company’s ongoing work in the realms of map up to 1,100 square km in a single mission. The AUV

AUVs, multibeam echo sounders, subsea mapping systems, is available with a variety of sensors for different applica- seabed sensor carriers and ? shery research equipment, al- tions, including the HISAS1032 dual receiver synthetic lied with a substantial investment in green initiatives such aperture sonar and a dual receiver EM2040 multi-beam as ocean farming for climate-friendly food production. The echo sounder, providing unparalleled seabed mapping ef- company’s Maritime Broadband Radio (MBR) ‘information ? ciency with up to 1000m of continuous swath. Data can highway’, meanwhile, can allow shore-based teams to re- be shared with other vessels and shore-based installations motely interact with AUVs and USVs in underwater opera- using KONGSBERG’s Maritime Broadband Radio (MBR). tions such as pipeline surveying, mine hunting or bathymet- This key enabling technology allows the of? oad of large ric surveying, with no loss of real-time package data. volumes of data without need for a physical connection.

The last 12 months have seen several innovations from The long ranges possible with MBR also enable over the

Kongsberg Maritime for the subsea market, chief among horizon operation.

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