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Following the previous UK tender success, AST-EMA consortium supplied equipment for the new Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) and Electronic Reporting System (ERS) for UK Fisheries, based on the BlueTraker® VMS, to be tested by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and UKFA. Extensive testing was conducted by the UKFA during the […]

The V-Tracks conference represents a global assessment of the commercial and operational applications of vessel tracking technologies and is an a-z introduction to all maritime tracking and monitoring technologies. We will be presenting our BlueTraker VMS product line at this years V-Tracks conference from 27-28 February.

BlueTraker® VMS high-security fisheries monitoring satellite terminals have received a Type Approval from the Canadian authority. With this approval, BlueTraker® devices gained permission for distribution in the Canadian market. On November 25 2015, after an extensive testing approval process on land and at sea, Fisheries & Oceans Canada (DFO) has placed the BlueTraker® VMS terminal

When? 13th to the 15th of September 2017 Where? Kópavogur, Iceland The Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition has become one of the world’s leading fishing events.  Held every three years, the 2014 event covered over 13,000 m2 of inside and outside exhibition space. Nearly 500 companies showcased the latest developments in the commercial fishing industry; from the design

When? 14th to the 16th of November 2017 Where? Amsterdam, The Netherlands The METSTRADE Show the world’s biggest and most visited B2B leisure marine equipment show, which has been bringing the marine industry together for decades. This global business platform and community focuses on innovation, market developments and on-site networking. If you wish to organize

When? 8th to the 10th of November 2017 Where? Lima, Peru Expo Pesca is the largest in its sector in Latin America and has been held in Peru every two years since 2003 to promote the sale of Equipment, Supplies and Services for Fisheries & Aquaculture, including Boats and Parts, Fishing, Fish Farming, Feeding, Harvesting, Refrigeration, Processing

With vessels dispersed around the world: extremes of temperature (e.g. windchill, humidity, dry air) are all factors for devices that can experience some of the harshest conditions on the planet. This presents a particular design challenge as all elements that makeup BlueTraker have been carefully thought out and our unique double shell housing is no

Inside every BlueTraker VMS terminal, there is a feature that we call ‘Hardware Embedded Geozones’. Hardware Embedded Geozones offer a big advantage over Software Geozones that ‘live’ in the computers of the FMC. But what are Geozones and why should FMC use them? Why should they care about the difference between Hardware Embedded Geozones or

Suspected transshipment? Use BlueTraker’s HRDR function to find out now! HRDR which stands for a High-Resolution Data Request is a command that can be sent from the Fisheries Monitoring Centre (FMC) to the BlueTraker terminal and is a request for more detailed positional information about a vessel over a given period of time. The feature

JUNE 2017: Seawork Southampton, UK Seawork Southampton, UK 13th to the 15th of June 2017 www.seawork.com Seawork is the largest European commercial marine exhibition held in one of Europe’s largest working ports – Mayflower Park, Southampton, United Kingdom. Seawork is a ‘one stop shop’ for buyers, providing access to the commercial marine and workboat markets.