Navsoft was founded in February 2000 to produce websites and small applications for the MS Access database management.

In July 2001, its Director, Marcos Silveira, graduated as Port & Flag State Control Officer for the Brazilian Navy. He then started to work for an Offshore Shipping company as the SMS Superintendant (Security, Environment and Occupational Health), which involved carrying out contracts with other shipowners (navigation businessmen), who had clearly identified the need for a quality consultant.

In November 2003, Marcos Silveira left the shipping company and took up a new position with Navsoft, bringing to the post his experience of more than 20 years of navigation. From this moment the Company started to focus its activities around the Naval Consultancy, implementing Safety Management Systems for ships and the customers’ offices on shore.

Suggesting products and solutions provided by some existing manufacturers in the market, Navsoft was briskly invited to exclusively represent the Transas Nautic company, with systems and equipment for the commercial and leisure navigation market. The monitoring of the sailing boat Paratii 2 and the application of the electronic charts navigation system by the navigator Amyr Klink during his navigation to Antarctica, helped promote its product portfolio much more widely.

Amyr Klink using Transas NaviGator

Transas Limited, the parent company, also invited Navsoft to represent its products in the Brazilian market, soon after Navsoft assumed the Transas Nautic representation.

In 2004, with new international security demands motivated by the attack of September 11^th 2001 in the USA, Navsoft also started to support the security requirements of Brazilian ports. A new market opened up among pilots responsible for manoeuvring vessels around the ports, requiring products and equipment for monitoring vessel traffic, which Navsoft was the first company to exploit.

In 2005, the company Vale approached Navsoft looking for an innovative product solution to monitoring the ship's approach speed to the quay, but not using laser technology. Navsoft is dedicated to researching how to decode the messages transmitted by AIS (Automatic Identification System) transponders and hires specialists in the field of programming this equipment. By producing an application that integrates several sensors already utilised in the dock area, the Docking Monitoring System was invented, with the patent request already deposited.

The Waterways Simulation Centre, CSA, opened in November 2006, as a result of an agreement of technical cooperation between the National Merchant Marine Officers Union – SINDMAR - and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ.  Working as technical consultant for SINDMAR, Director Marcos Silveira, was responsible for the conception, project, installation, configuration and operation of this simulation centre. Unique in the world, the CSA centre became the reference point for other countries operating other installed simulators, such as Norway and the USA.

While other navigation equipment manufacturers focused on new vessels for offshore operations (i.e. navigation carried out between the ports and the oil platforms offshore), that were being built in the Rio de Janeiro state, Navsoft invested in offering solutions for ports, terminals and pilots. Examples include the systems installed in Belém/PA, São Luis/MA, Fortaleza/CE, Maceió/AL, Salvador/BA, Vitória/ES, Itaguaí and Mangaratiba/Rio de Janeiro, São Sebastião and Santos/SP, Paranaguá/PR, São Francisco do Sul/SC and Rio Grande/RS.

Utilizing Navsoft's products, companies like Transpetro and Vale have benefited from greatly improved operational efficiency. For example, some ships used to radio ahead that they had already arrived at the anchorage position, when in truth, they were still around two to three hours away from the position claimed, because from this reported time the vessel’s stay cost is transferred to the terminal. These “hidden costs” were cancelled with the new system solutions provided by Navsoft.

Navsoft is therefore well-placed to provide solutions, utilising up-to-date technologies that meet the new legal and statutory regulations. Its highly specialised and skilled technical staff can meet all our customers’ present and future needs.