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Navigation, Charts and ECDIS

charts to ECDIS with only a few clicks would take care of this for ship owners developer of ship automation and

on the screen. There are a numberand at a ixed price.”marine computerised applications,.
of services that are fully integrated John K Klippen, Senior Product It has developed what it claims is

as part of Navi-Planner including a Manager for Commercial Marine & a revolutionary Collision Avoidance
system called DSR (Decision Support
weather service, Admiralty Digital HydroService at Jeppesen said the
Publications, anti-piracy information FlatFee ENC service would soon have Tool), supporting the officer on watch

and paper chart corrections.its two-year anniversary and it had (OOW) by advising in ample time
In order to familiarise users with the been very well-received by seafarers, what course and/or speed change

program, Transas has made computer- ship operators and owners.should be taken in order to avoid
based training (CBT) available to its collisions and human errors. The
“
customers free of charge.module is part of Totem ECDIS and
Maersk Line selected Transas takes into account the navigational

Marine for ECDIS implementation on parameters of all vessels and the We decided to
more than 100 vessels and installations stipulations of the COLREGS.

are planned to start this summer. Totem Plus said that during 2013 simplify the entire
alone, there were more than 10
Transas Marine has also signed a ENC process.
contract with Maersk Tankers for the collisions between ships with more

upgrade of 71 vessels and installations than 150 seafarers losing their lives
on several newbuilds and Transasand more than 1,000 tons of heavy fuel Jeppesen Managing
Director John Psychas
says this symbolises a continuation of pollution in the sea.
the strong relationships between the “Human errors are the most crucial ”

companies for almost two decades.factor, when collisions at sea are at stake
Another company which is and there is a given margin for such

innovating in the ECDIS and ENC errors, while adhering and interpreting “Speciically, we have been given
(electronic navigational chart) offering the COLREGS,” said Captain Azriel great feedback on the ease and

is ENC distributor Jeppesen, a Boeing Rahav, CEO of Totem Plus.activation and use, the simpliied
“The dense trafic across oceans ENC management and the lexibility
company, which offers its FlatFee
solution to help seafarers accurately on the common sea lanes is further the service provides. Users told

predict charting costs and streamline complicating the matter and this is us that because the costs are very
the purchasing of oficial ENCs.ever increasing. The introduction of predictable and ENC management is so

The traditional way of ordering very important tools such as ARPA straightforward, mariners can perform
ENCs currently in the market can be and AIS, and the presentation of detailed voyage planning, route

an administrative nightmare, as irstly target-related information on ECDIS validation and sail using all available
the chart management software has and radar monitors are certainly of ENCs without adding any unnecessary

to be selected and installed onboard. an assistance, however this isn’t good costs. From new customers, I heard
The use of this software alone might enough. The OOW still has to usethat the switch to FlatFee happened

require training and familiarisation his instincts and react to changing within hours without the need for any
and the next step is to do general circumstances in a short notice and additional hardware or tracking fees in

route planning to ind out which the consequences of possible human most cases.”

charts are needed and to order them. error are catastrophic.”He added: “Another very important
After receiving the licences for the To minimise ships’ collisionsaspect to our customers that we have

selected charts, then follows the and human errors, Totem Plus has received praise for is on the assurance of
time-consuming process of installing developed its Collision Avoidance data availability. To make sure that users

the ENCs before inally being able to System which serves as a decision have access to data at any given time,
access the ENCs and the start of the support tool for the OOW and helps Jeppesen has extended the required

detailed voyage planning.him to take a timely and correct tracking services by supporting a variety
This complex process inspired decision, to avert collisions with other of different tracking providers over the

Jeppesen Managing Director vessels. It advises the OOW the exact last two years.”
John Psychas to come up with the action that should be taken and has the Collisions are still a major hazard

FlatFlee solution.capability to analyse automatically all to seafarers, resulting in considerable

“We decided to simplify the entire the targets around the ship and advise loss of life and most collisions are
ENC process, from ordering, licensing the OOW on the best course to steer the result of wrong interpretation or

and installing to updating, administering or the speed change required, in order ignorance of the COLREGS (Collision
and budgeting – to create a service thatto avoid a collision. uRegulations), said Totem Plus, a

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