Norway-based e-navigation company Navtor has signed a distribution agreement with PRMAR for the supply of official electronic charts (ENC) for the global professional maritime market.NAVTOR is a part of the Stavanger-based company Smedvig.

As carriage requirements for ENCs move toward an official IMO mandate, Smedvig created an e-navigation company to provide electronic navigation services for the distribution and updating of electronic charts and related maritime information.

The ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information System) is expected to be the central navigation console aboard ships once the IMO mandate comes into force in July 2012.

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