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Kongsberg Maritime: United, Diverse

Kongsberg Maritime can provide complete integrated systems and solu- tions across the board. The systems available range from hydroacoustic sur- vey solutions and subsea autonomous vehicles and transponders, through DP,

Automation, Navigation and

Simulation. The company has enjoyed recent success, and is energized for 2004 and beyond via the amalgamation of

Kongsberg Simrad, Kongsberg

Maritime Ship Systems (KMSS) and

The Marine IT Company (MARITCO); all separate Kongsberg companies until the official merger date of January 1, 2004. Kongsberg Maritime is now the home to the hydroacoustic and DP expertise that made Kongsberg Simrad a leader in the offshore market. The ship electronics capabilities of KMSS and the sophisticated software coming out of

MARITCO complete the full picture to offer the marine industry a portfolio for most applications. "Kongsberg's marine companies have always been major players in their respective fields but bringing them clos- er together under the Kongsberg

Maritime banner means that the experi- ence and expertise throughout the organ- isation can be shared and utilized in a much more efficient manner," said

Torfin Kildal, President. Kongsberg

Maritime. "The companies still provide solutions within specific remits but as

Kongsberg Maritime. As a united force we can provide the marine and offshore sectors with solutions for almost every conceivable electronics application on a vessel, platform or under the sea. We like to call it the full picture."

Kongsberg Seatex stays a separate division of the Kongsberg Maritime group, but its products in the position reference sectors including its AIS infra- structure business will be marketed under the Kongsberg Maritime banner.

Kongsberg Maritime offers a broad range of products and solutions, includ- ing DP, Automation and Software.

The AutoChief C20 propulsion control system, first announced at Nor-Shipping 2003, has received a good deal of atten- tion and, more importantly, early orders.

AutoChief embodies a striking minimal- ist design, but the unit offers both form and function. By reducing the amount of buttons and controls on the panel itself, operation of the propulsion control sys- tem has been simplified, leaving crewmembers to concentrate on more complex actions. AutoChief C20 is actually the fifth generation AutoChief, with the first AutoChief appearing in 1967. So Kongsberg Maritime certainly has the technology to back up the grand design, but this new interface has taken it in an entirely new direction. When quizzed about plans for the design of

Kongsberg Maritime's other bridge equipment, Ole Gunnar Hvam, VP

Navigation and Automation said, "We will follow the AutoChief closely and listen to feedback from the users before we commit to the direction of the design of our other bridge equipment." The design is proving popular already though, with the Norwegian Design

Council recently awarding the

AutoChief C20 a sought after design award.

Newbuild and Retrofit

Kongsberg also has a busy refit depart- ment. "It's not just about providing

Kongsberg's high quality systems, it's about providing integrated solutions in a timely fashion with the least disruption to the vessels operation," said Roy J.

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