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At the beginning of February 2018 the SevenCs charting experts were invited to conduct an ENC production training in Hong Kong. This was already the third series of such courses planned by the Hong Kong Hydrographic Office. And there are more to come later this year. Since S-100 matters are strongly discussed nowadays [...] Read more

We are happy to officially announce that our new Software Development Kit “Nautilus Kernel” is now available in C# and Linux openSUSE 42.2. The Nautilus Kernel had his kick-off beginning this year and is the new “flagship” from SevenCs in regards to S-100 and modern hardware-accelerated rendering methods. Nautilus is [...] Read more

As a proud member of the MARSAT consortium SevenCs is evaluating how satellite data can help us to optimize future sea travel. The MARSAT project objective is the development of satellite based real time services to improve safety and efficiency for the maritime industry. The project wants to operationalize and [...] Read more

The WORLD ECDIS DAY, dedicated to maritime electronic navigation and ECDIS, seems to have become a well-recognized and influential event in the maritime industry sector. Different from most of the other conferences of this sort, it is a non-profit event. The focus is set to the issues shipping companies, the industry [...] Read more

Legislation is demanding all internationally sailing vessels of a certain size to be retrofitted with ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information System) at the latest by the middle of next year. Since the installation of such safety related equipment means considerable organisational and financial effort, this [...] Read more

SevenCs is an active partner of several S-100/S-101 IHO expert groups. These groups are for example involved in S-101 Test Bed activities and the development of a new standard for S-101 Validation Checks. Recently SevenCs has offered a 12 month trial of its new S-101 validation software, called 7Cs Validator, to the [...] Read more

IntellinQ and SevenCs have recently joined their forces and signed a cooperation agreement in order to develop, promote and support an integrated solution for nautical chart production. The combined workflow of the companies’ most advanced products - GeolinQ (IntellinQ) and ENC Bathymetry Plotter (SevenCs) facilitates [...] Read more

A must-have book for all interested in electronic charts was published recently by GEOMARES. It is the fourth edition of this fundamental text on ECDIS use and training, authored by Dr. Bernard Berking, Dr. Mathias Jonas, Horst Hecht and Marcus Wöster. The volume is perfectly illustrated, well designed and gives full [...] Read more