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HITT to be awarded Dutch VTS contracts
(Feb  8  2010)

Navigation and traffic management company HITT is to be awarded two new Dutch traffic control system contracts by the Netherlands Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (RWS).

Under the first deal HITT is set to be contracted to design and build the traffic control systems in the Den Helder VTS Region, while the other contract covers the design, delivery, testing and commissioning of a vessel traffic guidance and control system on the Noordzeekanaal (North Sea Canal) and surrounding waterways.

Both contracts include maintenace on the respective systems for a peroid of ten years.

RWS has guaranteed that the provisional award of both contracts will be finalised before the end of February, with the systems to be in place in about 10 months (Den Helder) and 18 months (Noordzeekanaal).

The new Den Helder order, worth approximately €2.3 million, will include the modernisation of the existing system and the delivery of new work stations with facilities allowing for partly automated operational processes.

The VHF and radar systems will be extended and optimised, with the vessel traffic control system also being connected to the coastguard system in order to exchange vessel traffic information.

The €17 million Noordzeekanaal order includes the construction and installation of 26 radar posts, a closed circuit television (CCTV) system and other detection, presentation and communication systems for navigation guidance, as well as the design and installation of two modern traffic control centres.

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