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Ecdis standards finalised ahead of IMO deadline.
(From Lloyds List)
REVISED performance standards for ship-borne electronic chart display and information systems (Ecdis) have been completed one year ahead of the deadline set by the International Maritime Organization, writes our Special Correspondent .
The IMO sub-committee on safety of navigation will submit the revised standards to the parent maritime safety committee in November, with the recommendation that Ecdis equipment installed on or after January 1, 2009 should conform to them.
For equipment installed before this date, existing IMO performance standards will continue to apply if the equipment was fitted on board ship on or after January 1, 1996.
The standards define the functionality of Ecdis as facilitating 'the simple and reliable updating' of electronic navigational charts, displaying information for route planning and supplementary navigational tasks and for route monitoring, and recording certain minimum elements of the voyage.
The revised text specifies that Ecdis with adequate back-up arrangements is an optional alternative to the Solas carriage requirement for up-to-date paper nautical charts.
The IMO has yet to agree on a universal Ecdis carriage requirement, but will consider concrete proposals for amending Solas Chapter V at the July 2007 meeting of the sub-committee. The revised text builds on experience gained ...
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