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NAV/COM REVIEW it decides to "go public."

It is a complex situation for

Inmarsat to balance these conflict- ing needs of maintaining safety, taking onboard the latest technolo- gy and marketing new services to the marine industry.

According to Andy Fuller,

Inmarsat's marine safety market- ing manager, the result will be a 'take no prisoners' mentality: "There is not room for everyone," he says. "Billions of dollars are being gambled in order to win the greatest share in what is a very lucrative-market."

This market is increasingly being concentrated around the maritime mobile phone sector. At present the marine industry does not have complete coverage by

Si-Tex Launches New Radio

Receivers

Si-Tex offers two new radio receivers - the Nav-Fax 100 and

Nav-Fax 200 - to cover shortwave communications in the 30 kHz to 30 MHz range.

The Nav-Fax 100 is a stand- along, voice-only receiver, while the Nav-Fax 200 includes a date interface port, cable and software and can be connected to a personal computer for viewing and down- loading weather fax images. Both models feature a large LCD which displays frequency and signal strength.

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AMT Releases New ECDIS

Advanced Marine Technology (AMT) has released ECDIS Version 2.0, a state-of-the-art Electronic

Chart Display and Information

System (ECDIS) featuring the lat- est advances in ECDIS technology.

The new product features NIMA chart display capability and

ECDIS-radar interface with route, chart data and user data transfer for the Raytheon Pathfinder/ST

ARPA radar.

Safety aids featured on the

ECDIS 2.0 include Guard Zone for collision avoidance and Anchor

Watch to ensure visual and audible alarms are set off when the vessel is off-track.

For more information on AMT

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A cull of staff and an internal reorganization just over two years ago did little to help the cause and sent an adverse message to the industry.

Inmarsat has being trying to redress the situation since. Again the problem of keeping up with the rapid advances in technology. "GMDSS is a case in point," says

Mr. Fuller. "The convention will probably be out of date by the time the final deadline of February 1998 is reached."

One significant area in which the organization is making an impact is that of vessel tracking.

Japan, for example, is to set up the Sea Traffic Control Satellite

System which will be used to track the exact positions of ships and record their speed, to try and ease the congestion experienced in most of that country's ports.

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