How to Achieve Enhanced Safety and Efficiency in Vessel Operations

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1 How to Achieve Enhanced Safety and Efficiency in Vessel Operations Digital Ship February 2015 John Erik Hagen, Regional Director NCA

2 Enhanced Safety and Efficiency e-navigation aims to provide needed information, in electronic format, to a ship s bridge team to enhance the safety and efficiency of marine navigation. This will involve the integration of new and existing bridge technologies and equipment to enable the provision of globally harmonised maritime services. e-navigation will also help simplify the exchange of information between systems on board and between ships, and on shore.

3 MSC 94 At MSC 94 the Strategy Implementation Plan (SIP) was approved However a number of countries requested that a revised plan was needed to go forward into IMO s programme of work as some tasks were already ongoing or completed

4 So what is the e-navigation concept? e-navigation is about harmonised and simplified information exchange between systems on board and systems on shore and systems between other ships.

5 The Solutions The concept is based on 5 solutions prioritised by IMO and represents an integrated and holistic approach to the concept of exchange of information in providing safe, secure and effective berth to berth navigation as well as protection of the marine environment

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7 Solution 1 The first solution, S1, provides a harmonised and user friendly bridge design in order to ensure that the navigator can immediately recognize all the navigational functions on any ship. It also includes standardisation of navigational display functionalities, S-mode

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9 Solution 2 The second solution, S2, provides standardised and automated reporting of ships information for port arrival to the shore side, so that it is not necessary to use many individual ship reporting systems when arriving in a port, saving time and reducing the non-navigational workload of the navigator and increasing port efficiency

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11 Solution 3 The third solution S3 provides improved reliability of bridge equipment and navigation information in order that the navigator can rely on the continuous update of the ships situation with regards to navigational awareness.

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13 Solution 4 The fourth solution S4 provides integration of incoming information on bridge navigational graphical displays to avoid the need to plot additional information of the current situation of the ship.

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15 Solution 5 The fifth solution, S5 makes sure that the shore based information from ports, VTSs and other service providers to ships is harmonised and standardized around the world.

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17 Communications and the concept of a Marine Electronic Highway The e-navigation concept is primarily based on improved digital communications between ship and shore and ship and ship. If the e-navigation solutions are realised then the concept of a Marine Electronic Highway (MEH) can be achieved.

18 Marine Electronic Highway The Marine Electronic Highway (MEH) was a Demonstration Project of the IMO in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore which was given the go ahead in June The overall objectives of the project were to enhance maritime services, improve navigational safety and security and promote marine environment protection.

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20 Tasks to be done For each Solution there are tasks that still need to be carried out in order that they can be implemented Implementation period is 2016 to 2019

21 6 Planned and Prioritized Outputs User friendly and harmonised bridge design 1. Draft Guidelines on standardized modes of operation, S-mode, including store and recall for various situations; 2. Add new modules to the INS Performance Standard to facilitate a simplified and harmonised bridge design and the display of relevant information including information received from communications equipment; Automatic and Standardised ship reporting 3. Update the Guidelines and criteria on ship reporting (see MSC Res.43(64) as amended by MSC Res.111(73) and A.851(20)) to allow standardised and harmonized electronic ship reporting, and the automated collection of internal ships data for reporting;

22 6 Planned and Prioritized Outputs Improved reliability of bridge equipment and navigation information 4. Revise Resolution A.694(17) to include BIIT (Built In Integrity Testing) especially for navigational equipment Integration of incoming information on bridge navigational graphical displays 5. Draft Guidelines for the harmonized display of navigation information received via communications equipment Harmonising shore based information to ship 6. prepare a draft Resolution on the implementation of Maritime Service Portfolios (MSPs) after completing Guidelines on the MSPs with the support of relevant International Organizations.

23 Conclusions e-navigation is about information exchange Completion of the 6 outputs to achieve the 5 solutions will make the e-navigation concept a reality So lets go for it!

24 Thank you for your attention!