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23 February 2024 - The future of ship navigation is upon us, with new technologies being developed every day to provide captains and crew with an easier and more user-friendly experience. JRC | Alphatron Marine is evolving with this new vision of the future. MIRAI, our mission and vision, means 'future' in Japanese. This vision is defined by our core values, including the fourth core value, the 'A' for 'Autonomous.'

29 September 2023 - From 7 to 10 November 2023 it is time again - the Europort exhibition in Rotterdam, the event where the maritime industry comes together to discover and share the latest innovations. This year we proudly present our groundbreaking maritime solutions in three different markets: deepsea shipping, yachting and inland shipping.

20 July 2023 - At JRC | Alphatron Marine we care about ‘Reliability’ and we are committed to providing our customers with exceptional service, solutions and knowledge. We strive to exceed expectations now and in the future. MIRAI, our mission and vision, means ‘future’ in Japanese. Our core values define this vision, including the third core value, the R for 'Reliability'.

27 January 2023 - At JRC | Alphatron Marine, we believe in growth. We’re always looking ahead to the future, to MIRAI. MIRAI means ‘future’ in Japanese and consists of our core values, M for maritime ownership, I for innovation, R for reliability, A for autonomous, and I for integration. This edition shows our thoughts about the second core value: ‘Innovation’.

5 January 2023 - JRC | Alphatron Marine announces the renewal of the partnership with YDK. The renewal of the partnership will cover a distributor agreement for both sales and service. This enables YDK and Alphatron Marine to support their customers seamlessly in today’s global trade.

23 September 2022 - JRC Europe is proud to announce that its sister company ProNav, in collaboration with a Norwegian dealer, has provided three Aero High-speed catamarans from Attica Group with a complete JRC navigation and communication package. The package includes our JAN-7201 ECDIS; the advanced nature of JRC's new ECDIS system allows you to plan a route in different ways with extensive flexibility. But also our JMR-5400 sea radar, JLR-21 GPS satellite compass, JLR-8600 multi GNSS, JLN-741 doppler log and more.

11 August 2022 - After a period of restrictions due to Covid-19 and cancellation of many exhibitions, JRC | Alphatron Marine is once again proud to present her leading products, innovations and solutions at SMM, one of the world’s largest exhibitions. At the 30th edition of this exhibition we will show a total package with professional deepsea and inland equipment, demonstrate our new modular consoles and introduce the new AlphaRiverPilot MFS.

28 October 2021 - JRC/Alphatron Marine continues to develop systems and solutions to make ships safer and more efficient. For this reason, we are excited to introduce you to our latest development for supported sailing, the new DynaPilot. This system has been developed in cooperation with Navis Engineering in Finland, with whom JRC has a strategic partnership to develop a highly innovative range of Ship Motion Control Systems.

12 October 2021 - After a period of Corona and no exhibitions, JRC/Alphatron Marine is very pleased to present all our new innovations at Europort, the international maritime exhibition where we can meet again after 2 years.

26 July 2021 - JRC/Alphatron Marine has recently launched their in-house developed automation and connecting platform Lynx for monitoring and control of all kinds of ship systems. The new Lynx OpenBridge module makes it possible for any project design engineers to freely compose multiple conning pages according to the Norwegian OpenBridge design guidelines.

24 June 2021 - On the 17th of June, Alphatron Marine in Rotterdam the Netherlands and Navis Engineering in Vantaa Finland, agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a partnership to develop a highly innovative range of Ship Motion Control Systems based on Autopilot and Dynamic Positioning technologies which can become an integrated part of the JRC navigation system.

20 May 2021 - JRC/Alphatron Marine continues to develop systems and solutions to make ships safer and more efficient. For this reason, we are pleased to announce that we have developed a new autopilot: the AlphaPilot MFS-VR. The AlphaPilot MFS-VR is an adaptive autopilot that uses information of speed or draft and it is suitable for multiple vessel types, like workboats, fast crew tender vessels, fishing boats, tugs and more. As this is the successor of our successful AlphaSeaPilot MFC and MFA system, this new pilot can easily be used to retrofit and previous models or any other autopilot.

26 April 2021 - Japan Radio Co., Ltd. will supply "Smart Bridge System" for world's first zero-emission electric-powered tankers for Asahi Tanker Co., Ltd. and are proceeding detailed engineering.

13 April 2021 - JRC/Alphatron Marine is committed to provide the best products, solutions and services to meet the needs of our customers. For this reason, we are pleased to announce that we have obtained an extension of the MED certificate for our successful CAT1&2 radar series JMR-5400.

8 April 2021 - JRC Europe is excited to present the new standardized Remote Diagnostics Report created by the JRC RMS-Support team in Rotterdam. This report will help the JRC Service network, superintendents, and technical managers to better prepare a service visit onboard the vessel, to increases the first-time fix rate, and reduces service costs. The status of all JRC equipment can be checked remotely, by a cyber secure connection, in advance of the service job, so the crew is sure that the engineer brings the needed spare parts and tools to do the job. In some cases, the problem can be fully resolved remotely with a software update or a change of settings.

30 March 2021 - Last month the Dutch R&D department of JRC/Alphatron Marine completed and commissioned the first AlphaMINDS mooring application for use on an inland vessel. The unique AlphaMINDS, MINDS stands for: Multifunctional Information Navigation Display System. Within MINDS there will be numerous applications offered with respect to the above, making use of the in-house developed LYNX software application.

24 February 2021 - Last month, Alphatron Marine's R&D engineers completed and commissioned the first AlphaMINDS River application on the inland MTS ‘Prinses’ together with the engineers of our inland shipping department. AlphaMINDS River is completely based on our software Lynx, an in-house developed cross-platform and modular SCADA software for the maritime industry.

1 February 2021 - JRC France is proud to announce the delivery of the first LT-3100S on the ship ‘Ile de Batz’. Shipowner of the ship is LDA (Louis Dreyfus Armateurs) with whom JRC France has already 8 ships under contract.

26 January 2021 - For decades, Europort has been the meeting place where the maritime industry comes together to connect, collaborate and innovate. Due to the fact that Europort 2021 is the first major maritime exhibition in two years, participation in this event is receiving a lot of attention.

15 December 2020 - JRC Iberia is proud to announce the delivery of a complete bridge concept onboard the vessel Amazonas II, which was built at Drassanes Dalmau shipyard in Barcelona, Spain.