Guidance Marine Ltd
Makes sensor and reference systems used to improve vessel position control and dynamic positioning accuracy.
Guidance Marine provides positioning and sensor technologies for offshore and maritime operations, with a focus on helping vessels measure their position, heading, and proximity to surrounding structures and hazards. Its portfolio covers laser precision solutions, radar precision solutions, targetless solutions, and microwave solutions, all of them serving real-time situational awareness, vessel tracking, station keeping, and dynamic positioning. Its sensors are used in tough marine environments and are built to support safe, reliable, and efficient vessel operations across a range of conditions, including low visibility, high traffic, and difficult weather and sea conditions. The business serves offshore support vessels, platform supply and emergency response operations, shuttle tankers and FPSOs, wind farm support vessels, crew boats, jack-up rigs, accommodation barges, heavy lift activities, dive and ROV support, pipe and cable laying, rock dumping, replenishment at sea, and other DP applications involving fixed or mobile structures. The sensors are used in autonomous navigation as well, combining local and global positioning, hazard detection, and autodocking capabilities, and that work includes a collaborative project involving a tug equipped with Guidance Marine sensors. A distinctive feature of the company is its concentration on local position reference sensing for Dynamic Positioning, with systems that meet IMO DP Class 1, 2, and 3 standards. It supports operations at greater distances too, with a microwave range up to 10 km for offshore loading and offloading between shuttle tankers and FPSOs. Alongside the hardware, the company offers commissioning, calibration, servicing, parts replacement, training, rentals, upgrades, installation support, software development, responder maintenance, and access-code support, delivered through a global network of certified service partners. Those services cover the full lifecycle of its sensor systems, from research and development through to customer support and maintenance. Laser, radar, targetless, and microwave technologies give the company a range of sensing approaches for those applications rather than a lone method.