
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
August 1, 2007
FUGAWI
SOFTWARE APPOINTS OCEANTALK AS
EXCLUSIVE AUSTRALIAN AND S E ASIAN DISTRIBUTOR
Oceantalk
PTY Ltd. to Distribute Premium Marine Software Products from Australia
& Singapore
Toronto,
Ontario – Fugawi Software (Northport Systems Inc.)
announced today the appointment of Oceantalk PTY Ltd. as the exclusive
Australian distributor of its premium marine software products.
Effective August 1, 2007, Oceantalk will distribute and provide
marketing and technical support for Fugawi Marine ENC software to
the Australian marine electronics dealer network. Oceantalk will
also distribute Fugawi Marine ENC in South East Asia on a non-exclusive
basis via its Singapore office.
“We are
very pleased to welcome Oceantalk into our growing international
distribution network,” said Robin Martel, president of Northport
Systems. “As the Australian agent for a range of marine products
including AIS receivers, night vision equipment and solar instruments,
as well as its strength with government agencies and technical installers,
Oceantalk is well positioned to grow and strengthen the Fugawi brand
within the region.”
“We are
pleased to be working with Northport Systems, the innovative manufacturer
of Fugawi Software,” said Robin Kydd, managing director, Oceantalk.
“We believe that Fugawi Software products are set to gain
widespread acceptance in the Australian and South East Asian marketplace
and that there are strong synergies with our other marine electronics
brands.”
In addition
to existing support for S-57 and BSB format charts, Fugawi Marine
ENC now offers full compatibility with existing Navionics® Gold+,
Gold, Silver and HotMaps® charts. This new functionality allows
boaters to use a PC at the helm or below deck for planning, navigating
and monitoring their passage using the identical, industry-leading
cartography that they have installed in their Navionics supported
chart plotter.
Ideal for boaters who require ultimate flexibility when planning
excursions or during real-time navigation, Fugawi also allows seamless
upload and download of routes and waypoints to Navionics compatible
chart plotters and handheld GPS receivers, available from Northstar,
Raymarine, Humminbird, Garmin, Magellan, Lowrance, Eagle and more.
Offering cutting
edge innovation, Fugawi Marine ENC has also recently added support
for Google Earth™, via a free Plug-in. The new Plug-in allows
boaters to view their current GPS location on geo-referenced Google
Earth images next to actual charts in split-screen mode. This combination
of detailed cartography and high-resolution aerial photography provides
boaters better visual awareness, enhanced charting information and
added peace of mind while boating.
To ensure added safety at sea, Fugawi Marine ENC offers greatly
enhanced Automatic Identification System (AIS) integration. Valuable
new features include CPA and TCPA calculation, an improved graphic
display of AIS targets making it easy to determine which vessels
pose a collision threat, the ability to click on a vessel for expanded
AIS information and true scale vessel silhouettes. Fugawi performs
dead reckoning of targets and curved course prediction based on
rate of turn between active position updates.
Oceantalk will
present the latest Fugawi Marine ENC GPS Navigation Software product,
with support for award-winning Navionics cartography as well as
Google Earth at the Sydney International Boat Show, August 2-7,
2007.
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About
Fugawi Software (Northport Systems, Inc.):
Established in 1995 in Toronto, Canada, Northport Systems, Inc.
now supplies products to over 80 countries. Northport’s Fugawi
product line enjoys a worldwide reputation as a leader in GPS mapping
software and innovative GPS applications. www.fugawi.com.
About
Oceantalk PTY Ltd.
In over 18 years Oceantalk has established in the region a sales
and dealer network with a focus on end user satisfaction. With offices
in Sydney and Singapore Oceantalk is a leader and innovator in the
distribution of electronics to the light marine market.
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