100 Ships Have Installed TELSCOPE Electronic Record Books

The TELSCOPE Electronic Record Books’ deployment aboard the MV Island Contender is a cause for celebration, marking a pivotal achievement as the 100th vessel to integrate our solution. We take immense pride in being the chosen partner of Island Offshore for digitalizing their maritime operations.

A Century of Vessels Equipped and Counting
The MV Island Contender, an Island Offshore Platform Supply Vessel, is the 18th ship within the Island Offshore fleet to be outfitted with TELSCOPE. This milestone nearly completes a successful rollout across the fleet, with an implementation pace of 1-2 ships monthly. This includes full installation, commissioning, and crew training over roughly a year.

Enthusiastic user feedback and plans to introduce TELSCOPE on an additional 100 vessels across diverse maritime sectors highlight the industry’s accelerated shift towards digital solutions. This transition towards digital record-keeping is acknowledged for reducing administrative workloads and improving record accuracy.

TELSCOPE’s Real-World Benefits for Island Offshore
Andre Almestad, Fleet Manager for AHTS at Island Offshore and overseer of TELSCOPE’s fleet-wide implementation, notes a significant advantage: the reduction of administrative and repetitive record-keeping tasks. This improvement not only optimizes onboard operations but also allows the crew to concentrate on their primary duties, thereby boosting safety and efficiency.

Almestad underlines TELSCOPE’s positive impact on daily operations, offering substantial benefits that enhance operational efficiency and compliance.

With the upcoming ship-to-shore module, set for completion in the second quarter of 2024, TELSCOPE will enable flawless communication between ship and shore teams, granting office staff complete access to onboard records. Additionally, the improved checklist feature will simplify the distribution and onboard implementation of checklists managed by the shore-based team. Almestad expresses eagerness to commence using these new features, which will also focus on optimizing the audit process and managing compliance documentation.

Press release – Telko to deliver digital logbooks to Stena Line

Telko to be a main partner to Stena Line’s digital transformation project and at the same time deliver a paperless solution for electronic logbooks and MARPOL record books.

Telko and Stena Rederi AB sign agreement for TELSCOPE, a digital platform for sensor collection, data storage, smart sync ship shore, electronic logbooks, and MARPOL record books.

Stena Line is one of the world’s leading ferry operators, with 37 vessels serving 17 routes in Northern Europe. Stena Line also owns six ports and operate a further ten. The company is an important part of the European logistics network, offering intermodal freight solutions that combine rail, road, and marine transport.

Telko is leading manufacturer to the maritime industry of ECDIS, and e-navigation solutions. It is based in Norway with a daughter company in Sweden. The company has delivered more than 6000 ECDIS licenses to SOLAS vessels. Telko is committed to provide the maritime industry with the most effective solutions that will help our customers to reduce workload and increase quality.

TELSCOPE will set a new fleet standard for data. Today data from different sources are saved in different format and are unstructured, also manual analogue exchange between systems into different documents for reports is common. TELSCOPE will store all incoming data in a structured format ready for analysis. On top of the digital platform Telko has developed electronic logbook applications that fulfil SOLAS and MARPOL regulations. The project has started, and the first vessel is Stena Germanica.

 

“We are proud to be part of Stena Line’s digitalization project and to deliver a solution that will support both officers onboard and personnel on shore.
Our digital platform will also increase Stena Line’s customers satisfaction and enable new digital services.”
– Martin Ekholm, MD – Telko International AB

TELKO joined the PREParE SHIPS

TELKO joined the ‘PREParE SHIPS’ Consortium with the objective; development and demonstration of a collaborative resilience navigation solution. It aims to develop and enhance existing software solutions by exploiting the distinguished features of the Galileo signals as well as combining it with other nautical information on internal as well as external parameters and sensor technologies.

The final navigation decision support tool implemented, consists of collaborative exchange by ship2ship communication of dynamically predicted future position based on resilient position from Galileo receivers.

This will significantly increase safety and efficiency and will be the base of future autonomous operations.

Read more https://prepare-ships.eu/.

TELchart ECS 3.8.3.5 released

Today, 30th of June 2020, we are releasing a new update to the TELchart ECS software.
This brings TELchart ECS to software version 3.8.3.5.

 

This is a big release, including all improvements previously released for TECDIS version 4.8.3.2 to 4.8.3.5. Highlights in this release includes Admiralty TotalTide support, new options for route monitoring, improvements to S63 chart handling, transit conning, rendevous, curved EBL and new options for route ETD, ETA, STG and TTG calculations.

 

Read more about the features in the TELchart ECS Feature Guide for this release (link below).

 

Best regards,
The Telko Team

You can download the update file here: TELchartECSUpdate.exe
And we advise that you download and read the TELchartECS Feature Guide for this
release here:
TELchartECS Feature Guide 3.8.3.5.pdf

 

Software update: TECDIS 4.8.3.5 is released

Today, 10th of June 2020, we are releasing a new update to the TECDIS software. This brings TECDIS to software version 4.8.3.5.

This is primarily a maintenance release with fixes and improvements identified since the release of the previous version, but it also adds some new features for our TELCARE subscribers.

One example is Long heading line, adding an oft requested feature to TECDIS. When this new option is activated, own ship heading line extends to the edge of the chart display.

This release also adds other new features, improvements and bug fixes, that are available to any TECDIS user. Most notably we are adding dual click chart loading for the ChartWorld chart provider, further improvements to the new way of displaying the Route Monitoring during a voyage introduced in the previous version and performance improvements when operating continuously without restarts for months at a time.

Read more about the features in the TECDIS Feature Guide for this release (link below).

 

Best regards,

The Telko Team

You can download the update file here: TECDISUpdate.exe
And we advise that you download and read the TECDIS Feature Guide for this
release here:
TECDIS Feature Guide 4.8.3.5.pdf
Unsure of how to add the update? Folllow this upgrade guide: TECDIS Update Procedure.pdf

 

Software update: TECDIS 4.8.3.4 is released

Today, 9th of July 2019, we are releasing a new update to the TECDIS software. This brings TECDIS to software version 4.8.3.4.

This release adds several new features for our TELCARE subscribers.

Illustration of the curved EBL feature

Curved EBL is the most important one, adding live prediction of how a turn will effect your bearing and position. We have also added several calculation features, to help you plan your voyages with as little manual calculation as possible.

This release also adds other new features, improvements and bug fixes, that are available to any TECDIS user. Most notably we are adding a new way of displaying the Route Monitoring during a voyage. This display is made together with Norwegian SAR personnel.

Read more about the features in the TECDIS Feature Guide for this release (link below).

 

Best regards,

The Telko Team

You can download the update file here:  TECDISUpdate.exe
And we advise that you download and read the TECDIS Feature Guide for this release here: TECDIS Feature Guide 4.8.3.4.pdf
Unsure of how to add the update? Folllow this upgrade guide: TECDIS Update Procedure.pdf

 

World premiere at Nor-Shipping

The Telko team is present at Nor-Shipping all week, showcasing our brand new product TelScope.

You can find us at the Furuno Norway stand, B03-24.

There, we will demonstrate TelScope and it’s impressive feature list.

Please stop by and talk to one of our team members at Nor-Shipping!

Software update: TECDIS 4.8.3.3 is released

Today, 1st of March 2019, we are releasing a new update to the TECDIS software. This brings TECDIS to software version 4.8.3.3.

This release introduces several major changes to TECDIS, both to the product itself and to the feature set it has.

The biggest change is the introduction of TELCARE, our software as a service subscription program. Read more about it here: telko.no/telcare

We are also introducing highly requested features such as Admiralty TotalTide, a new miniconning for transit and drag and drop for editing route lanes and turn radiuses. We are also adding a feature we are very proud of; Rendesvous. This tool predicts where other vessels will be along your route, and allows you to visually find suitable locations for overtaking/meeting, and provides you with speed to go to accomplish it as well.

Read more about the features in the TECDIS Feature Guide for this release (link below).

 

Best regards,

The Telko Team

You can download the update file here:  TECDISUpdate.exe
And we advise that you download and read the TECDIS Feature Guide for this release here: TECDIS Feature Guide 4.8.3.3.pdf
Unsure of how to add the update? Folllow this upgrade guide: TECDIS Update Procedure.pdf

 

Telko and SRH MARINE SAIT to cooperate in Greece

We are proud to announce that Telko and SRH Marine SAIT in Greece have signed a Distributor agreement. Our strong cooperation will lead to new business in Greece and Cyprus.

About SRH Marine SAIT

SRH Marine Electronics S.A. is a well-established company in the maritime market offering full services on sales, technical support and training for Navigation, Radio communication, Automation, Spares, Retrofit, Repairs, Safety and other marine equipment.

SRH is supported by a global network of well-known manufacturers and service suppliers, authorized by all major classifications. By maintaining quality, integrated solutions, reliable products, variety of services, experienced and trained personnel, time-efficiency and competitive prices, SRH holds today a long and growing list of satisfied customers worldwide.

SRH’s core values are based on the commitment to employees through their personal empowerment, the optimum and flawless customer service, developing and maintaining value-added partnerships.

Strategic alliances with some of the most important companies in the maritime market and steadily incorporated branches in all over the world will keep SRH committed to staying ahead of the game and providing a pro – active service to its customers.

(quote from srhmar.com)

About Telko

From our offices in Færder Technology Park on the east coast of Norway, we have delivered more than 6.000 Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (TECDIS) worldwide.

More than 25 years in the North Sea have given our ECS and our TECDIS a significant position in this area.

Safe Navigation, the high value of free software upgrades and support,  as well as our recognized TECDIS user interface is appreciated as “the North Sea standard” by navigators.

Our activities with our distributors and dealers, and our close cooperation with the users of our ECS & TECDIS has provided the company with knowledge and experience for further investment in the International Maritime Market.

Stena Vinga with TECDIS

Telko in the media: Sjöfartstidningen

In the latest edition of the Swedish Sjöfartstidningen you can read about the TECDIS installation on Stena Vinga. Telko International AB has performed a complete rebuild of the front of bridge systems. A dual TECDIS installation together with Furuno Radars is now installed on the bridge.

In the article you can read more about Stena Vinga’s experience with TECDIS (the article is written in swedish), but to sum up their main reason for choosing Telko and TECDIS is simplicity:

It’s in line with our desire to remove unnecessary features for the navigators. Many ECDIS systems on the market today have received many features in a short period of time. But Telko’s system is a simpler, cleaner system.

Read more about the views of Stena Line and Telko about a simpler and more modular approach to bridge designs for the future. Telko International AB’s very own Jonas Trygg has provided a lot of insight in the article, and it is truly worth the read.

The full article is available in Sjöfartstidningen number 10/2018, and in the pdf below:

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