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Who Are We?

Amarcon, a highly specialized Dutch company, is the current market leader in measuring ship and offshore hydrodynamics to predict ship performance in waves. Amarcon has acquired key expertise in ship motion and performance analysis, and in creating software and providing system integration for that purpose.  Amarcon bridges the gap between fundamental research and daily ship and offshore operational practice, by combining their expertise with the motivated collaboration of leading players in the maritime industry. 

What Are We Doing?

Amarcon is committed to serve the maritime industry by remaining a product and market innovator of onboard advisory systems. In order to meet the needs of clients Amarcon works closely together with strategic partners such as system integrators, classification societies and weather-forecast providers.

  • Our capable system is small and compact, literally a dashboard;
  • It offers the opportunity to outperform competitors;
  • It helps reducing fuel and operating costs, thus providing an important financial benefit for your company.

What Are We Offering?

Amarcon offers consultancy services and a suite of products for engineering, monitoring, routing and decision support; OCTOPUS-Office, OCTOPUS-Onboard, OCTOPUS-Online and OCTOPUS-TMS.

OCTOPUS products are developed to complement each other and are made for one purpose: to make the main tasks on board easier. The complexity of ship dynamics in waves and its consequences are calculated and displayed by OCTOPUS in an easy to understand format that is of relevance for navigation decisions.