Harbour Master
Harbour Masters
Worldwide there are approximately 3,000 merchant ports and the work of the Harbour Master can vary widely from country to country and from port to port even within the same country.
Complete solutions for Vessel Traffic Services/Local Port Services
Kongsberg Norcontrol is a world leader in providing Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) systems to ports, coastal areas and inland waterways, ensuring safe navigation and efficient operations in maritime domain. For ports that do not have VTS responsibilities, we also offer state of the art management systems for monitoring and managing vessel traffic.
Building on more than 40 years of experience as an expert on the maritime domain, we have delivered close to 300 surveillance systems worldwide. With around 80 colleagues around the world, we have offices in Singapore, Bristol UK, Ahmedabad India and our headquarters are in Horten Norway.
Shaping the future of maritime domain awareness:
As a forward-looking technology provider, we strive to anticipate the maritime industry’s needs of tomorrow. We lead R&D projects within important areas such as e-navigation, autonomous vessels and AI-driven behavior analysis. By bringing the knowledge acquired in these projects into our own technology, we keep ourselves at the forefront of innovation in the time to come.
Steve Rushbrook never predicted he would become a Harbour Master, let alone in one of the southernmost ports in the world. His career pathway to becoming a Harbour Master for New Zealand’s Otago Regional Council shows what is possible for those with less conventional backgrounds.
As part of the refurbishment for the operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm, Inland and Coastal Marina Systems (ICMS) has installed a floating concrete breakwater within the Port of Newhaven to provide safe berthing facilities for crew transfer vessels (CTVs).