Raytheon Anschütz IBS for new Intership Bulkers

Raytheon Anschütz was recently awarded a contract to supply their Integrated Bridge System (IBS) to two new bulk carriers. The bulkers will be built at New Times Shipyard in Jingjiang, China. The delivery to the Cyprus based shipping company Intership Navigation Co. Ltd., a member of the German Hartmann Group, is scheduled for August and October 2011.

The new bulkers, each with a capacity of 176,000 dwt, will be equipped with full integrated bridge systems. The installation of the bridge systems takes place under the combined supervision of Raytheon Anschütz Shanghai and Raytec Marine Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Intership and responsible for the technical service of the vessels.

Raytheon Anschütz supplies its NSC radars with the new wide-screens and chart radar functionality. Advanced anti-clutter and collision avoidance functions are included to increase efficiency on the watch. The latest generation of NSC ECDIS features the automatic route planning function, which is designed to reduce the planning even of a demanding route to a handful of clicks. The scope of supply further covers the trackpilots and the manual steering control systems, as well as the complete set of sensors and the radio stations.

Sven Dreyer, Sales Director at Raytheon Anschütz, states: “The awarded contract results from a satisfying relationship to Intership Navigation, who have chosen our bridge systems also for former projects.” A special feature on board of the newbuilds is a complete second bridge, which is intended for use as a training station for officer cadets. The training station is part of the Intership Navigation company policy that attaches great importance to the education and training of their crews. In accordance with this concept, the company has already established its own crew training centre in Manila (Philippines), for which Raytheon Anschütz was also selected to supply its navigation equipment.

Apart from the reported contract, Raytheon Anschütz has won similar contracts for new tankers, cargo ships and mega yachts during the past weeks. “We all have recognized the global crisis in shipbuilding. But we have come to a comparatively remarkable result in our sales of integrated bridge systems”, Sven Dreyer explains.

During the past years, Raytheon Anschütz has sold more than 600 of its Integrated Bridge Systems. Approximately every third of them is delivered for installations at Chinese shipyards. This makes the company a leading manufacturer in the international shipbuilding supply chain.

Raytheon Anschütz GmbH is a subsidiary of the Raytheon Company (Waltham, USA) and a part of the Integrated Defense Systems division (Tewksbury, USA). The company was founded in 1905 as Anschütz & Co in Kiel, where today all of the essential components for safe ship navigation are developed, produced, and meticulously tested. Raytheon Anschütz is one of the leading suppliers of Integrated Bridge and Navigation Systems for all kinds of commercial vessels, naval ships and mega yachts. The company employs more than 500 people and maintains a worldwide service network with more than 200 service stations.

Raytheon Anschütz GmbH
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D-24106 Kiel
Germany

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