Lower Mississippi River Port-Wide Strategic Security Council Acquires Six UIS(TM) Systems
LAKELAND, FL -- (Marketwire) -- 04/30/12 -- Coda Octopus Group, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: CDOC) was recently awarded and completed a contract for circa $3m for the supply of six (6) of its Underwater Inspection Systems (UIS™) to the Lower Mississippi River Port-Wide Strategic Security Council. These systems will be used by a number of ports in that region.
The Lower Mississippi River is reported to be the largest and one of the busiest port systems in the world. It is also fast moving and has almost zero visibility water, making it amongst the most difficult port environments to maintain. Each of these UIS™ systems which include Echoscope® real-time 3D sonar technology will be used, amongst other things, for essential safety duties, such as ensuring that the shipping channels are kept clear of dangerous debris.
Blair Cunningham, our Chief Technology Officer, said, "We are very pleased to welcome this very influential group of Louisiana ports to the fast growing community of UIS™ users. The Coda Octopus UIS™ is proving itself invaluable to operators. By using its real-time 3D capabilities it is providing cost and time savings by enabling operators to see in real time underwater objects in zero visibility conditions and thereby reducing significantly the complexity of tasks and operations. We now have over 25 UIS™ in operation in the US ports community, doing essential port and harbor security work every day of the year. This is a testament to the incontrovertible benefits of deploying this real time tool."
About Coda Octopus Group, Inc.
Originally founded in 1994 as Coda Technologies, the Coda Octopus Group is now headquartered in Lakeland, Florida. The Group consists of a Marine Products business in Florida and Edinburgh, Scotland, and engineering businesses in Utah and Weymouth, England. Each of the Group companies are technology innovators with a particularly high level of sonar expertise. The Group has facilities in Florida, Utah, the UK and Norway.
Alongside providing custom engineering and development for defense applications, and oil and gas, companies, one of the Group's key products is the Coda Echoscope® -- the first real time 3D sub-sea sonar. The Echoscope® is also at the heart of the Underwater Inspection System™ which is being adopted for homeland security, and other applications in ports around the world.
With this patented revolutionizing sub-sea visualization capability, and the existing systems integration skills within Colmek Systems Engineering, Inc. and Martech Systems Engineering Ltd., the Coda Octopus Group believes they can become a world leading integrated sonar technology supplier.
For further information, please visit http://www.codaoctopusgroup.com or contact Coda Octopus at info@codaoctopusgroup.com.
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Company Contact: Geoff Turner Director and Group Officer info@codaoctopusgroup.com
Source: Coda Octopus Group, Inc.
Released April 30, 2012