Craig Santer who joined Marport in January this year is now heading the company’s new Cape Town branch, bringing with him fourteen years of experience in the marine electronics industry, and specialising in South Africa’s commercial fishing industry.
Marport has announced the opening of Marport South Africa (PTI) located in Cape Town. The company will distribute Marport’s full product line of catch control and net monitoring sensors, echo sounders, current profilers and sonar for the world’s fishing fleet.
The company is a leader in the design, development, and marketing of Software Defined Sonar, a software-orientated sonar architecture and a uniquely versatile acoustic transceiver platform for various underwater sensing and communication applications. Established in 1997 to develop acoustic monitoring systems for the deep sea commercial fishing fleet, Marport has become a leading innovator in sensor systems in that sector ever since.
Marport is a subsidiary of the Airmar Technology Corporation.