Transas brings AIS to SMM
Transas has just delivered onboard and vessel traffic monitoring systems to DFDS Canal Tours of Denmark
The delivery includes 16 sets of AIS class B units and an AIS monitoring system. DFDS Canal Tours is a subsidiary company of the DFDS shipping network, integrating freight and passenger services, and is owned by the two biggest shipowning companies in the region, J. Lauritzen and Clipper Group.
DFDS Canal Tours’ boats are chartered from Copenhagen all year round for private events. Each boat carries approximately 165 passengers. The current Transas AIS class B delivery covers the company’s entire fleet.
The AIS Monitor system and AIS Monitor Data Recoding SW Module included into the set will help shipowners to better control their fleet.
Jens Hjortkjaer of Transas Scandinavia said, ‘This contract is the first of its kind for Transas. The market segment of harbour operating passenger boats like these is enormous in cities like Hamburg, Stockholm, Paris, Bruges, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Strasbourg and Venice, and we are investigating this market more closely.’
Transas will be exhibiting at SMM 2008 and their stand will be in hall B6, number 231.
