ChartCo acquires Marine Position

UK-owned navigational data distributor ChartCo has acquired Swedish environmental navigation specialist Marine Position, to extend its digital platform onboard vessels.

Prior to the acquisition, ChartCo and Marine Position supplied ChartCo’s EnviroManager technology to several fleets including NYK, Northern Marine, Mideast, Bernhard Schulte, V.Ships, KGJS and DS Norden, as part of a one-year partnership.

Martin Taylor, CEO of ChartCo, said: "Our customers’ search for solutions to manage the rapidly growing set of global, national, and local requirements for environmental protection led to our initial partnership with Per and his team, as a true specialist in this complex field. This acquisition will allow us to further integrate our EnviroManager service into our PassageManager software, delivering many enhanced customer benefits: pre-voyage environmental planning, shoreside visibility of compliance and integration with digital log books. All of our customers have environmental concerns high on their agenda

Marine Position’s products include the Environmental Navigator, Environmental Navigator – Server for larger fleets and The EnviroPilot recorder. The company’s office in Stora Höga, on the south west coast of Sweden, will be expanded and all employees will be retained.

Per Österberg, CEO of Marine Position, commented: "The investment from ChartCo allows us to accelerate product development to match the shipping industry’s ever-growing requirements in environmentally-focused compliance."