The Cornwall is being built to Damen's popular SPA 4207 design, examples of which have already been delivered to customers in the UK, Vietnam, South Africa, Curacao and the Netherlands. It is the first such vessel to be equipped with the INS integrated bridge, designed and produced by Alphatron Marine to combine all relevant functions into an ergonomically efficient unit.

All monitors, control panels and indicators are arranged in clean and stress free fashion and full redundancy is achieved using the latest kvm/plc technology designed in-house at Alphatron. The concept minimises the number of personal computers required, instead using proven PLC technology combined with dedicated processors and radars in a flexible network. It delivers a system which can be serviced by the navigation communications engineers generally available at ports worldwide rather than depending on specialist IT engineers.

The current order book for the Alphabridge has pending installations on 10 vessels, including one for the Royal Dutch Navy, another series of Coastguard vessels, and a series of four 850 teu container feederships.

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