VIKING Steps Up at Cruise Shipping Miami
VIKING Life-Saving Equipment’s product developers have been adding to the company’s range of products and service offerings.
The LifeCraft – a revolutionary hybrid
VIKING’s new super-sized, flexible evacuation system is a revolutionary hybrid that brings together the best of lifeboats and liferafts in one. The VIKING LifeCraft system combines all of the advantages of modern lifeboats - such as self-propelled maneuverability - with the flexibility, comfort and smaller footprint of today’s liferafts.
“This is a product that completely changes the lifeboat vs. liferaft discussion - at least when it comes to high-capacity evacuation systems,“ says VIKING CEO Henrik Uhd Christensen: “The VIKING LifeCraft system enables rapid, mass evacuation with maximum safety for passengers and crew.”
The LifeCraft system consists of two main elements: The LifeCraft survival craft – a self- propelled inflatable vessel with four engines for a high degree of maneuverability and safety; and a stowage and launching unit, either placed on deck or built in, containing up to four LifeCraft crafts with a capacity of 200 persons each - for a total capacity of 800 persons. There is a gangway for stretchers, if needed. A miniature model of the LifeCraft as well as a 3D video of the system will be showcased at Cruise Shipping Miami.
High performing suits and lifejackets
Raising the standards for personal safety, the company’s PS4170 combined work- and immersion suit and range of solid lifejackets, have been tested and approved according to the most stringent performance standards.
More maritime products
With the release of an expanded marine products catalogue with almost twice the number of products previously on offer.
50-year innovation wave
VIKING CEO Henrik Uhd Christensen puts the heightened pace of product releases down to a simple mechanism: “When you’re close to your customers, you can develop exactly what they want – or what they will want in the near future,” he says. “And they help you to continue improving the product as their needs evolve every step of the way.”
