GC Rieber Shipping chooses NAVTOR for fleet-wide total navigation solution
Specialist ship owner, operator and manager GC Rieber has signed a fleet-wide agreement with NAVTOR for a total vessel navigation solution, spanning both paper and digital deliveries. NAVTOR, a global leader in e-navigation technology and services, will now install products throughout GC Rieber’s portfolio of advanced seismic and offshore ships, enhancing overall fleet efficiency, safety and cost control.
The agreement is far reaching in scope. It covers the delivery of all digital and paper charts and publications, provided on a Pay As You Sail (PAYS) basis, alongside products and services including weather and route optimisation services, navigational management solution NavTracker, and the installation of NavBox units. These, one of NAVTOR’s latest innovations, connect with ECDIS and automatically download the latest navigational data without navigators having to check for updates.
GC Rieber operates a fleet of nine vessels - including some of the industry’s most advanced seismic ships - with installation of all NAVTOR’s products and services expected by the end of 2016.
NAVTOR, which has opened new offices in Japan and Singapore over the course of the last year, launched its ENC service to the market in 2012. Since that time it has built a global customer base and recorded a series of market firsts, launching the world’s first type approved Pay As You Sail ENC service, the first digital chart table (NavStation) and, recently, a new software module to automate and digitise the mandatory process of vessel passage planning.
About NAVTOR
NAVTOR is a market leader in the provision of innovative e-navigation solutions, services and technology for the maritime sector. All of NAVTOR’s products and services are developed in line with the company philosophy of simplifying tasks, increasing efficiency and improving operations. Through the application of cutting edge digital technology, NAVTOR’s team makes life easier for navigators, and safer, clearer and more efficient for shipowners and operators.
The firm was established in 2011 and is headquartered in Egersund, Norway, with subsidiaries in St Petersburg, Russia (NAVTOR Russia LLC), Singapore (NAVTOR Singapore Ltd. Ptd.), Japan (NAVTOR Japan K.K.) and Sweden (NAVTOR NAUTIC AB).
