The AIS Transponder is a Swedish invention, adopted as international standard - for ships and aircraft.

By IMO regulations the Transponder does successively become compulsory for specified ship types and sizes.

We are agents for the GP&C transponder från Saab TransponderTech AB, an equipment which has been used and tested onboard our training vessel MS Ramona during several years.

Better than radar?

The combination of AIS transponder and a qualified electronic chart system will show transponder equipped vessels on the chart image, like an ARPA target. Moreover, the transponder target also provides information about the ship's name, ship type, size, draught, cargo, position, speed, course, destination - and calculated collision risk.

Ships in radar shadow and far beyond radar range are visible. By use of landbased and satellite repeaters, transponder information range becomes global. It is possible to visualize the position and track of vessels from port to port.