Works on development of the professional FS-4000 Fishery Simulator integrated with the program "The training of deck-hands on board fishing vessels" were completed.

5 new Certificates of State registration of computer software programs were appended to Section "Intellectual property".

Certificate No.52499-2009-AQ-MCW-FINAS issued by DNV according to the ISO 9001:08 standards was confirmed on results of compliance audit.

In 2009, within the frame of research and development work in cooperation with the Federal Fisheries Agency of Russia Vector completed the "Software development designed for training in long-line fishing". The obtained results were implemented in the NFS-3000 Navigation and Fishery Simulation system.

At the end of the year, a research work of Alexander Dolgov, Vector's Director and Chief Designer, was published as a monography dedicated to results of the Vector's many years of experience in developing of marine simulation systems.

Vector has supplied a new software version of the NS-3000 class to the Far-East Navigation School (with additional training area "Peter the Great bay" included).