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Charts and Maritime Services
 The Charts & Maritime Services division forms one half of Kelvin Hughes and is the world's largest distributor of navigational, legal and technical information that is required by modern shipping companies for the safe operation of ships at sea.
From small beginnings as a shop in central London, where its role was to supply paper charts and publications to ship's Captains, the company pioneered the introduction of new services to make the navigator's workload easier and improve the accuracy and speed of the tasks he or she had to undertake.
Kelvin Hughes has been a leading manufacturer of equipment for the marine industry for over 250 years and has used innovation and technology advances to support an increasingly wide range of services to the mariner.
The company has stock holding locations in London, Glasgow, Southampton, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Singapore and Shanghai, and an unrivalled record of supplying to diverse ships, wherever they are in the world.
As part if its history of innovative services, some fifty years ago, Kelvin Hughes introduced the concept of Outfit Management which monitors new editions and updates of the charts and publications carried by each ship, and automatically supplies these on a regular basis to the vessel - keeping the outfit up-to-date and legal.
In 1970's the company introduced chart correction tracings for British Admiralty and US charts, and today supplies them to thousands of ships world-wide.
In the early 1990's the company pioneered electronic distribution of chart updates with the creation of ChartCo which was setup to deliver digital corrections and tracings directly to ships via satellite broadcast. ChartCo, initially a joint venture with Fugro, is now wholly owned by Kelvin Hughes.
Thanks in part to the close links with the bridge equipment manufacturing side of the company, Charts & Maritime Services was one of the earliest Chart agents to develop a service to support electronic charts on board ships.
Today the company supports all available official and privately-made charts for commercial shipping, and has unrivalled experience across most ECDIS and ECS types.
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