Admiralty makes ECDIS compliance easier

The Admiralty information overlay, a free service to AVCS customers, is now available on Admiralty e-Navigator and on JRC ECDIS models JAN-701B, JAN-901B, JAN-2000. The overlay is the only service to include the worldwide ‘temporary & preliminary notices to mariners’ (T&PNM) that ships need to sail compliantly with ECDIS and ENCs. The overlay also includes the results of UKHO’s comprehensive review of the world’s ENCs, and helps ensure bridge teams are aware of navigationally significant differences with existing paper charts.

Viewed on e-Navigator, the overlay provides an easy and efficient way for the bridge team to view and assess the impact of T&PNMs and other important additional navigational information when planning a voyage.

When viewed on a JRC ECDIS, the overlay is automatically displayed as an additional layer over the ENC to enable the bridge team to clearly see how T&PNMs may impact a voyage and respond with appropriate action.

Tamiho Shinya at JRC, said: “Admiralty sets the benchmark for accurate ENCs with the AVCS, and most of our ECDIS customers rely on the data for their primary navigation. It is therefore important for them to have access to this additional information in a simple, integrated way. By delivering compatibility with the overlay on our newest ECDIS models, our customers can plan and execute voyages with improved safety and ease, and more easily demonstrate compliance during Port State Control inspections.”

In addition to JRC ECDIS, the information overlay is also available through Transas Navisailor and SevenCs ORCA Master Electronic Chart System (ECS). The information overlay will be available through e-Navigator V 2.4 from December 2012. Customers who wish to integrate the overlay with their navigational operations should speak to their Admiralty chart distributor.

Ian Moncrieff CBE, Admiralty’s chief executive, said: “The integration of the information overlay into both front and back of bridge operations is delivering significant enhancements to the mariners’ ability to plan safe and efficient routes and to their situational awareness while executing those voyages. It’s a further example of our commitment to provide mariners and shipping companies with the accurate and trusted data they need to sail safely and compliantly.”