Support Services for UK Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) Device

The UK is required to collect position information from UK administered commercial fishing vessels over 12m in length, and where said vessels are fishing in EU states and other 3rd countries' waters, forward those position reports to those states. This condition has been in place since 1998 when predecessor regulations came into force for over 15m vessels, and it is required that said vessels send position reports from a UK approved transponder. In 2011-12 the ageing transponders on the UK fleet, as well as equippi...