2007 starts well with three new ECDIS customers

PC Maritime has celebrated the start of 2007 by announcing the sale of its Navmaster ECDIS to three new customers: John H Whitaker Tankers Ltd of Hull, ScotLine in Romford and Dublin-headquartered Irish Ferries.

The sales are the result of PC Maritime's strategy to work with chart agents to provide customers with a combined ECDIS plus electronic & paper chart service.

Whitaker Tankers is a customer of Todd Chart Agency and the Irish Ferries sale was concluded by Lilley & Gillie. The shipping companies benefit from having the supply of hardware components, installation management, electronic charts, system training, after-sale technical support, paper charts, nautical publications and updating services from a single point of contact.

Navmaster ECDIS is simple to retro-fit into existing bridges; installation takes between one and two days. The ECDIS hardware is modular so that customers have some options for locating individual components conveniently into varying bridge layouts. The PC unit can be stored for instance in under-counter housing, with the display fitted into a console, mounted on a counter-top or fixed to the deckhead.

The eventual aim of the three shipping companies is to go "paperless". In the meantime their ships will benefit from greater safety and efficiency, and their crews will become trained in ECDIS usage.

The PC Maritime Navmaster ECDIS as retro-fitted to the 3315 dwt specialist timber carrier Scot Mariner. This ScotLine vessel, built in 2001, is currently maintaining a regular service between Varberg in Sweden and the Irish ports of Wicklow, Belfast and Cork.

Whitaker Tankers' newest ship Whitonia was fitted with PC Maritime's Navmaster ECDIS system whilst in drydock in Dubai