Marshall Islands Marine Notice 7-041-6

Title: Marshall Islands Marine Notice 7-041-6

Description: This Marine Guideline provides advice and guidance to mariners on the importance of initiating and maintaining a regular and efficient system of chart and publication updating, the proper use of ARPA Radar, and Rules of the Road in Traffic Separation Lanes. Nautical chart and publication carriage requirements are addressed in Reference (a) above. This Guideline supersedes Rev. 2/08 and reflects the addition of new Reference (d) above and new section 3.0 on ECDIS with the rest renumbered.

Extract: 1. This Guideline applies to ships using the Electronic Chart Display Information Systems (ECDIS), and all ships equipped with Automatic Radar Plotting Aids (ARPA). 2. Additionally, this Guideline applies to all ships as Regulation 27 of Reference (b) above requires ships to carry nautical charts a...

Published 7 Nov 2012 by Office of the Maritime Administrator, Marshall Islands. Downloaded 2202 times.

Marshall Islands MG-7-41-1

Title: Marshall Islands MG-7-41-1

Description: This Marine Guideline provides advice and guidance to mariners on the importance of initiating and maintaining a regular and efficient system of chart and publication updating, the proper use of ARPA Radar, and Rules of the Road in Traffic Separation Lanes. Nautical chart and publication carriage requirements are addressed in Reference (a) above. This Guideline supersedes Rev. 2/08 and reflects the addition of new Reference (d) above and new section 3.0 on ECDIS with the rest renumbered.

Extract: Additionally, this Guideline applies to all ships as Regulation 27 of Reference (b) above requires ships to carry nautical charts and nautical publications such as sailing directions, list of lights, notice to mariners, tide tables and all other nautical publications necessary for the intended voyag...

Published 7 Nov 2012 by Office of the Maritime Administrator, Marshall Islands. Downloaded 1842 times.

Port State Control – Information Notice No. 2 of 2012

Title: Port State Control – Information Notice No. 2 of 2012

Description: The purpose of this notice is to advise shipowners, operators, managers and Masters of Isle of Man registered ships of the following; Guidance on Electronic Chart Display Information System (ECDIS) The Ship Registry has noticed a rising number of deficiencies related to PSC coding 10112 Electronic Charts (ECDIS) where vessels have been found not to be complying with SOLAS Chapter V Regulation 19.

Extract: Additionally for the use of ECDIS on board, all Masters and officers in charge of a navigational watch will be required to undertake ECDIS training. The 2010 Manila Amendments to the 1978 STCW Convention as amended entered force on 1st January 2012. These amendments provide for mandatory ECDIS train...

Published 7 Nov 2012 by Isle of Man Marine Administration, Isle of Man. Downloaded 2547 times.

MCA MIN 445

Title: 445-2

Description: This MIN should be read in conjunction with MGN 285 and MGN 379. It replaces and cancels MIN 426. This MIN expires 1 October 2013

Extract: 1.1 Chapter V of the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention is given legal effect in UK legislation through the Merchant Shipping (Safety of Navigation) Regulations 2002 (SI 2002 No.1473), as amended. 1.2 Amendments to SOLAS Chapter V, arising from resolutions at IMO Maritime Safety Committee a...

Published 31 Oct 2012 by Maritime and Coastguard Agency, United Kingdom. Downloaded 3016 times.

CG-CVC Policy Letter

Title: CG-CVC Policy Letter

Extract: The international Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping....

Published 11 Oct 2012 by United States Coastguard, USA. Downloaded 1622 times.

INTERNATIONAL STANDARD IEC 60945 (4)

Title: INTERNATIONAL STANDARD IEC 60945

Description: Maritime navigation and radiocommunication equipment and systems – General requirements – Methods of testing and required test results

Extract: Maritime navigation and radiocommunication equipment and systems – General requirements – Methods of testing and required test results...

Published 19 Sep 2012 by International Electrotechnical Commission. Downloaded 2857 times.

The UK Ship Register newsletter Winter 2012

Title: The UK Ship Register newsletter Winter 2012

Description: UK Ship register newsletter Winter 2012

Extract: During the last quarter 17 ships joined the UK Ship Register (UKSR) with a combined gross tonnage of 282,000 GT. Of these new registrations 12 were new builds, whilst the remainder transferred in from other flags....

Published 1 Sep 2012 by Maritime and Coastguard Agency, United Kingdom. Downloaded 2611 times.

MIN 442 Training for ECDIS as Primary Means of Navigation

Title: 442__mf_

Description: Training for ECDIS as Primary Means of Navigation

Extract: MIN 442 The Master and all Navigational Officers of UK Flagged vessels, which have Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) as their primary means of navigation, are required by their Safe Manning Document (SMD) and Port State Control Committee Instruction 35/2002/02 (rev1), to ha...

Published 1 Aug 2012 by Maritime and Coastguard Agency, United Kingdom. Downloaded 4406 times.

S-62 - LIST OF DATA PRODUCER CODES

Title: S-62 - LIST OF DATA PRODUCER CODES

Description: IHO LIST OF DATA PRODUCER CODES

Extract: A list of ENC producer agency codes was originally published in November 1996 as Annex A to S-57 Appendix A, under the title "IHO Codes for Producing Agencies". Because the list of producer codes is liable to revision more frequently than the S-57 standard, it was subsequently decided to publish ...

Published 26 Jul 2012 by International Hydrographic Organisation. Downloaded 2592 times.

Marine Notice 11/2012

Title: Guidance on ECDIS for ships calling at Australian Ports

Description: This notice aims to clarify some of the emerging issues relating to the carriage requirements for Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) and to provide guidance for ECDIS-fitted ships calling at Australian ports. As the mandatory carriage of ECDIS will be phased in from 1 July 2012 onwards 1 , ship operators, masters and navigating officers of ECDIS-fitted ships are encouraged to take this guidance into account. Two flow charts that address ECDIS-related issues and which will be used by AMSA’s Port State Control (PSC) inspectors, are attached.

Extract: This notice aims to clarify some of the emerging issues relating to the carriage requirements for Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) and to provide guidance for ECDIS-fitted ships calling at Australian ports. As the mandatory carriage of ECDIS will be phased in from...

Published 10 Jul 2012 by International Maritime Organisation. Downloaded 2857 times.