Kongsberg completes KBV project

Under the contract, Kongsberg supplied the total package for each of the four vessels, named KBV031 to 034.

This included the K-Bridge integrated navigation system, the K-Chief integrated alarm, monitoring and control system, the C-Pos Dynamic Positioning system and the GeoSwath Plus Multibeam.

The contract also included basic and detailed design of each system, technical layout, delivery, start-up, testing and commissioning.

Built by P+S Werften in Germany, the vessels will be used as environmental protection and surveillance ships and will aid the Coast Guard in vessel traffic management, environmental monitoring, border security, fisheries, customs and police checks at sea.

The vessels are defined as multipurpose vessels with the possibility of oil recovery, conforming to GL 100A5 DPO oil recovery vessel E2 HC-/2 and conforming to the Swedish Maritime Administration for traffic in international voyage service area ‘A’.