More cruiseship orders for SAM Electronics

Ships to be equipped with the systems are Carnival’s Carnival Magic being built at Fincantieri’s Monfalcone shipyard in Italy, and Celebrity’s Celebrity Silhouette under construction by Meyer Werft in Germany. The other two systems will be installed aboard Costa’s Costa Fascionosa and Costa Favolosa, both of which are being completed by Fincantieri at its Breda shipyard. In addition to the navigation systems, all four ships will be similarly outfitted with integrated automation assemblies for machinery control developed by SAM Electronics’ associate company, Valmarine AS of Norway.

Incorporating high degrees of operational redundancy and featuring integrating interswitchable SAM X- and S-band radars with Ecdis, autopilot and other key navaids, the NACOS systems will enable each cruise ship to be steered to an accuracy within half its beam using precise positioning and speed measurement techniques. The systems form part of a new extended series of NACOS Platinum models providing a wide range of scalable navigation, automation and control functions using common components and operating networks. Two such assemblies have already been commissioned for the new 71,000gt Aida cruise ships being built at Meyer Werft.