VIRTUAL AIDS FOR THE PACIFIC

Lusty & Blundell will promote Vesper Marine’s Virtual Aids to Navigation and Guardian AIS technology solutions in the South Pacific Islands.

Guardian helps ports and coastal authorities electronically mark shipping and ferry lanes, power and telecommunication companies mark undersea cables, and oil and gas companies mark their platforms and sub-sea pipelines.

By making these installations and hazards clearly visible on vessel navigation systems, Guardian helps prevent collisions and significantly improves maritime safety.

The solution includes Guardian:protect, a 24/7 protection system that helps prevent vessel collisions with sub-sea and marine infrastructure. It uses the Automatic Identification System (AIS) to transmit virtual marks (Aids to Navigation). These marks are displayed as a special hazard on a vessel’s ECDIS, chart plotter or AIS display, alerting crews to the presence of the marked navigational hazard and warning if they are on a collision course.

Guardian also creates protection zones around the infrastructure or hazard. It monitors vessels’ live positions, evaluates their behaviour in these zones and proactively sends both the target vessel and the owner of the asset an alert if an incident might occur. The alert also goes directly to the electronic navigation system of the target vessel, so both can immediately take corrective action.

The Lusty & Blundell appointment covers Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Fiji, Niue, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands and other islands in the region. www.lusty-blundell.co.nz

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