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Schottel's Director of Marketing and Sales,

Christophe Mourout (center), demonstrates the advantages of the Schottel Electric

Propulsor SEP by means of a working model.

Nauticast AG

Following the company strategy to expand its global business, Nauticast's

SOLAS Class A AlS-Transponder was recently granted two further regional approvals: The USCG/FCC-approval for the North-American market and the

CCS-approval for the emerging market of the Federal Republic of China. "AIS is one of the key technologies for the shipping-industry and North-America and China are core-markets for our future business," says Peter Martin,

CEO of Nauticast. "We are consequent- ly following our path towards AIS lead- ership by upgrading our products with new features. This has been recognized in the market and has led to orders of

Europort 2003 Preview more than 1,500 units."

Besides civil maritime applications, the naval market holds huge potential for AIS technology. Nauticast has com- pleted the development of a customized

AlS-unit: The Navy X-Pack. The Navy

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Radio Holland

Radio Holland Group presents sev- eral 'breaking' novelties in maritime electronics at Europort 2003, as usual in an eyecatching major stand presen- tation (Stand No. 01.1077,

Europahall RAI). In co-operation with Furuno (Japan), Radio Holland will launch the new series of Furuno blackbox deepsea radars. All features will be announced shortly before the exhibition. Also new on show at RH is the innovative AVECS Ship

Management System, presented in a virtual Maritime IT Surrounding on the stand, including several other IT applications to be used onboard.

Also Radio Holland will present the latest equipment of its newest exclu- sive brand in Automation equipment,

Stein Sohn. The new airtime services that Radio Holland offers through its brand Radio Holland Connect, will be presented together with the com- plete Fleet satcom range F77, 55 and 33 of Nera and ECI. For audio/video purposes RH introduces the new Sea

Tel 4003 Broadband-at-Sea KU Band

Maritime VSAT system, as well as an innovative DVD server for maritime applications. RH will show a com- plete electronics range for navigation, communication, automation, AV, sur- vey, fishery, deepsea and inland ship- ping.

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