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Nautel provides innovative, industry-leading solutions speci? cally designed for use in harsh maritime environments: • GMDSS/NAVTEX/NAVDAT coastal surveillance and transmission systems • Offshore NDB non-directional radio beacon systems for oil platform, support vessel & wind farm applications • DGPS coastal differential global positioning systems • VHF port communication systems

Nautel and Kenta bring 55+ year history of engineering innovation, superior performance and customer satisfaction. Our expertise has made us a preferred supplier to coastal stations, FPSO, oil platforms, and major defence contractors worldwide.

– Juha Rokka, nautelnav.com | email: [email protected]

CEO and co-founder, Groke

Technologies nologies: Mitsubishi Corporation, Japan’s Asia and Europe. with professional development mate- largest trading house and a partner since It takes less than a day to install the sys- rial, helping them apply lessons learned our founding in 2019; Sumitomo Mitsui tem which consists of a sensor unit that is across the crews in their ? eet. We are

Finance and Leasing; tanker operators mounted on top of a ship’s bridge, and a also providing cloud connectivity for the

Uyeno Transtech, Tsurumi Sunmarine and system cabinet installed inside the bridge. system so that shoreside managers can

Asahi Tanker; and, most recently, tugboat We have more installations contracted gain a real-time view of the challenges operator Tokyo Kisen. Oldendorff Carri- for 2024, including return customers faced by their watchkeepers at sea. In the ers, one of the world’s leading dry bulk looking to roll out Groke Pro across their future, we are planning to build guidance owners and operators, has also joined us. ? eet. We see demand continuing to grow into the system so watchkeepers can from both domestic and international more easily assess the options they have

Machine Vision shipowners, and we are also seeing in- for responding to challenging situations.

Groke Pro is the ? rst machine vision terest from insurance companies. In Groke Pro was not designed to re- solution to obtain Innovation Endorse- high-risk situations, a recording of im- place crew on board but to provide ment for Products and Solutions from ages is automatically triggered, so Groke them with the best possible information

Japanese classi? cation society ClassNK, Pro provides an irrefutable evidence trail to support their decision-making. With a timely achievement. With increasing that could ease the investigative work re- better decision-making comes improved use of digital shipping technology, com- quired for concluding claims. safety. Improved safety in turn helps to bined with a global shortage of experi- It can also help shipping companies increase crew welfare.

enced of? cers and crew, we anticipate that integrated ship situational awareness technology will be a mandatory require- ment from the IMO by 2030. Before that will come class notations and voluntary

IMO guidance, probably by 2026.

Groke Pro has an extensive reference list from Japanese shipping companies, including K Line and U-Ming Ma- rine, and as well as our headquarters in

Turku, we have established a Japanese of? ce. We now have over 20 employees supporting new and existing clients in www.marinelink.com 41

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