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Cruise lines, perhaps more than any other segment of the shipping market, have eagerly adopted advanced integrated bridge sys- tems to help protect not only pas- senger, crews and reputations, but also the more than half-billion dollar homes within which they reside.

Furuno

Furuno's Integrated Bridge System, dubbed Voyager has been designed to achieve total integration of bridge equip- ment and information in accordance with the One Man Bridge Operation (OMBO). All components come from a single source, Furuno. Complying with the latest performance standards of IMO and IEC, the ECDIS displays and ENC vector charts make for easy route plan- ning and route monitoring. The turn radius can be specified for each way- point along the planned route, which is check against the electronic chart to pro- duce a grounding prevention warning of where dangerous shallow waters exist.

Voyager also incorporates an adaptive steering control in the automatic track control system, which automatically steers the ship from point to point along a planned rout in narrow waters of across the ocean. The centralized sys- tem represents on the conning display, the ship's heading, course-made-good, speed, rate-of-turn, planned route and waypoint data, wind, drift, depth and more. Utilizing a modular design, Voy-

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Kelvin Hughes

Smiths Group expertise in aircraft display technology has helped Kelvin

Hughes produce their range of inte- grated bridge systems. The ninas 9000 is designed as a highly flexible range of integrated bridge systems designed to utilize the Kelvin Hughes range of nucleus radars and navigation sys- tems. Created around the nucleus2 range of displays, which have been developed over the last five years, include the well-established nucleus2 6000 radar display and the Multi-Fea- ture Display.

All displays use the patented tracker ball and three button control system to operate all of the on-screen functions.

Kelvin Hughes has worked closely with the world's leading classification soci- eties including ABS, BV, DNV, GL and

LR in designing the ninas 9000 bridge systems. Kelvin Hughes' modular layout allows for ultimate flexibility in design, as many different consoles and angular units are offered to fit the varied demands of ship owners and operators.

The ninas 8000 has the same visibility as the ninas 9000, but displays are smaller and thus ideally suited to high- speed craft and coastal vessels.

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