Hamburg, Germany – 8^th January 2010. SevenCs GmbH announced today that its digital chart agent subsidiary, ChartWorld GmbH, has received DNV type-approval of its system electronic navigational charts (SENC) distribution process for the SevenCs' type-approved system ENC data format, "directENC", in accordance with the Primar Stavangar requirements for SENC distribution.

Commenting on the new approval, SevenCs Managing Director, John Humphrey, said,

"SevenCs and ChartWorld believe that SENC distribution is the best way of providing electronic nautical chart users with the service quality and ease of use they deserve. Therefore, this approval is not only a great achievement in itself for the ChartWorld team, but also a major opportunity for ChartWorld to develop and deliver better data services for users of systems based on the SevenCs Kernel."