Safe navigation for ferries and cruise ships
Whether you’re navigating in a sensitive environment or connecting two harbours daily – you carry the responsibility for the ship, the passengers and the environment. Anschütz navigation systems, autopilots and integrated bridge systems ensure that your cruise ships or ferries reach their destination safely and efficiently. With experienced project managers, engineers and short routes to our development department, we are the right partner for designing customised newbuild and refit projects. With us, you can rely on full transparency, flexibility, fast responses and a high level of expertise.
Anschütz systems are designed to meet the highest demands at sea and ensure safe, convenient and efficient navigation.
The safety of passengers and the feeling of having maximum safety on board is of the highest priority. For many years, Anschütz has focussed on improving safety at sea through implementing a maximum of reliability and precision into its products and systems.
With our proven, sustainably reliable gyrocompasses, intelligent heading management systems, high-precision (and fuel-saving) autopilots and our steering gear control system with integrated safety functions, we set one of the highest standards in the market. We are seamlessly building on this with our integrated bridge system in accordance with the latest IMO/IEC performance standards.
All our products fulfil today's standards and regulations (type-approvals include high-speed crafts). This also applies to cybersecurity to prevent system malfunctions and data manipulation or theft. In addition, we are continuously developing our products and systems to meet future customer requirements and regulations – especially in terms of safety.
We derive functions from digitalisation and research and develop them into navigation systems that drive efficiency and safety at sea.
Innovations and benefits for customers:
- Multifunctional workstations empower navigators by enabling access to any function at any place.
- Bridge integration platform: innovative software framework ensuring consistent data and alerts, sharing a precise situational picture across the system, directing attention to relevant situations and avoiding miscommunication on the bridge
- Take-over functionality and clearly defined, secure, readily available steering mode
- Contributions to safety by steering gear control system (helpful e.g. on double-end ferries)
- Electronic logbooks drive efficiency and simplify reporting while largely automatically generating secure logbook data on board and making it available for further use via networks.
- Radar and ECDIS with modular scope of advanced features. Current research on autonomous navigation leverages assistance functions for navigation systems.
- Autopilot with unique combination of functions, reducing fuel consumption by on average 2% to 6% – another building brick towards less emissions and an improved CII
- Autopilot and ECDIS are type-approved as a track control system.
All products are based on modern, standardised marine hardware and network components, which significantly reduces complexity compared to conventional and older systems. Functions are added through modular software applications. Anschütz products and systems for navigation and steering are easy to integrate into cruise ship and ferry newbuilds and refit projects. After being thoroughly tested at Anschütz, they are installed and commissioned at the shipyard by trained partners and integrators.
Experts from the Anschütz Group are available worldwide to provide maintenance services and technical support, where applicable also with the aid of modern IT infrastructure and remote services. With targeted refit solutions, we enable our customers to always keep their ships at the cutting edge of navigation technology and offer their passengers the highest level of safety.
