Navarino Brand Guidelines: The 1999 Piraeus Maritime Tech Firm Behind Infinity

Two brothers and the Greek shipping market.

Navarino is a maritime technology and connectivity company from Piraeus, the port city next to Athens. The company gives its founding year as 1999 and Piraeus as its birthplace, and its main Greek office is still there, with after-sales and field-service teams nearby and a logistics and production site in Moschato, a short distance inland. Its founders are the brothers Dimitris and Panos Tsikopoulos, Smart Maritime Network reported in January 2026; in April 2026 the same publication named Dimitris Tsikopoulos as chief executive.

The name is also that of a bay and a fortress in the Peloponnese; the company in this guide is the one at navarino.co.uk, where the Greek domain also leads. It describes itself as a maritime technology company “delivering hardware, software and connectivity alongside innovative IT solutions” for ship operators, and states its vision as becoming “the benchmark technology company of the maritime world.”

Its history is tied to the large satellite operators. In 2005, Smart Maritime Network reported, Stratos Global bought a 49% stake in Navarino Telecom and NTS Maritime, the two businesses known together as Navarino. Stratos was acquired by Inmarsat in 2009, and Viasat completed its purchase of Inmarsat in May 2023, so the minority stake passed down that chain to Viasat. Navarino’s own list of services includes Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress, and a Viasat executive quoted in January 2026 said the two companies’ mutual investment had helped to position Inmarsat Maritime in the Mediterranean maritime connectivity market.

Infinity, and a stack of named services.

Navarino’s signature product is Infinity, which it calls a maritime bandwidth network management and optimisation platform. Installed on board, it works with whatever satellite systems a ship carries, including Starlink, FleetBroadband and VSAT in the Ka, Ku and C bands, the company says, and combines network management, a firewall, quality-of-service controls, software-defined WAN, multiple crew hotspots, email and access to nautical charts. Navarino says more than 10,000 vessels use it.

Infinity comes in three versions. Origin is the essential edition, covering connectivity, network management and crew welfare. Plus adds virtualisation, so a ship can host and manage virtual machines on a single server. Cube adds a cluster of three or more nodes that keeps running if a node fails and can grow as needs increase. In August 2026 the company released Infinity 3.5, with a redesigned crew hotspot and a rebuilt self-registration flow so that crew can get online in fewer steps, available on all three versions.

Around Infinity sits a set of named services. Spectrum handles asset inventory and remote monitoring and management, Angel and Quazar cover cyber security and IT management, and COSMO is an online platform through which operators manage connectivity and security across a fleet. Navarino Elements supplies bridge and navigation electronics, and crew-welfare services include Vikand and Theasis.

On the connectivity side, Navarino resells and supports a range of networks rather than operating satellites. Its list of primary networks includes Starlink, Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress, its own Navarino Ku Band service, Prodigy Air, NexusWave and OneWeb; backup and compliance services include FleetBroadband, Iridium Certus, Inmarsat C and handheld satellite phones. The company says it works with more than 650 shipping companies and serves more than 13,000 vessels, and that one in three ocean-going merchant vessels uses a Navarino service.

Marine electronics and satcom.

Marine electronics and satellite-communications companies tend to present themselves through their equipment first. Their websites lead with product photographs of radars, chartplotters, sonar displays, antennas and satellite terminals, usually shown on a plain background or mounted on a mast, a wheelhouse roof or a radar arch. Domes and displays are shot from the same few angles so that a whole range reads as one family, and model names, sizes and frequency bands do much of the descriptive work.

Coverage is the second recurring image. Satellite-service providers and antenna makers publish coverage maps for each network or plan, from regional cellular zones to global satellite beams, and many now show several networks side by side as low-orbit services join older geostationary ones. Bridge and wheelhouse photography carries the human side: officers at consoles, screens glowing in a dark bridge, yachts at anchor, fishing boats and offshore vessels at work.

Airtime and connectivity plans are a large part of how these companies describe themselves. Data allowances, subscription terms, crew-internet packages and backup services are laid out in plan tables, named and grouped the way each company chooses, and a hardware maker may sell plans on its own network next to those of other operators. Network-management software, cyber security services and content for crews increasingly sit alongside the hardware.

Partner pages complete the picture. Dealer and installer networks, service points in ports, and the satellite operators and equipment makers a company works with are listed with their own names and marks. This guide describes each company’s identity from dated sources and the company’s own pages, and the colours and typefaces shown are unofficial interpretations rather than reproductions of any mark.

A founder buy-back and a growing group.

Ownership changed in 2026. On 5 January 2026 Smart Maritime Network reported that Navarino had agreed a financing package with the private equity firm ICG that would let the founders buy back Viasat’s stake; the brothers would keep control, terms were not disclosed and closing was expected by the end of March. On 1 April 2026 the same publication reported that the deal had been concluded, as Navarino appointed Ronald Spithout, a former president of Inmarsat Maritime, as chairman of its board.

Navarino now presents itself as a group. Its group page lists Castor Marine, a satellite communications provider; Forecode, a maritime digital-services company; Navarino Elements; and NEMO, short for New Era Maritime Operations, launched in May 2026 as the group’s entry into operational technology. NEMO collects data from ship systems and onboard sensors for monitoring, alerting, performance analysis and emissions reporting; the company said in May that it was in pilot testing and expected a full commercial launch in the first quarter of 2027. Navarino lists offices in Greece, the UK, Cyprus, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, the UAE, the USA and India, and gives its staff as more than 300.

Navarino publishes a brand kit on its website. It offers full and brandmark versions of the logo and product logos, names Montserrat for headings and body copy, and shows a primary palette built on a dark navy, two strong blues, a bright cyan and a light grey, with lighter blues and a green as secondary colours. The brand-kit page closes with the line “Navigate your future with Navarino,” which also appears at the foot of the company’s news pages.

For a design guide, Navarino shows a services company building a family of named software products under one documented identity. Compare Inmarsat, whose Fleet Xpress service is on Navarino’s list of networks, and Iridium, another network on its list. For this guide we use a harbour navy, an Aegean blue and a sky cyan with a sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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