Milestone for automated reporting service

The service is hosted on a test environment in SafeSeaNet Norway, the NCA’s maritime single window, and was developed through the SESAME Solution II and STM BALTSAFE projects.

“One of the main objectives in the SESAME project is to automate the reporting from ships as much as possible,” said Jarle Hauge, principal engineer at NCA. “The onshore technology solution must support that effort by providing all required information on what the ship needs to report and when.”

Part of the work done by the NCA has been to identify and document what kinds of services mandatory reporting system should provide, namely a ‘Request and Respond Service’ (RRS) and a ‘Transmit & Receive Service’ (TRS). The SESAME Solution II project uses both.

“With the release of these services prior to the start of the SESAME testbed period, our project has taken a huge step forward,” said Todd Schuett, SESAME Solution II project manager at Kongsberg Norcontrol. “What is important from here on is that we harmonise around the IMO Reference Data Model as the standard for automated ship reporting.”

SESAME Solution II is owned and managed by Kongsberg Norcontrol and receives funding from the Research Council of Norway.