How to Achieve Enhanced Safety and

Efficiency in Vessel Operations

Digital Ship February 2015

John Erik Hagen, Regional Director NCA

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.

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

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.

• 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

The Solutions

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 2006. The overall

objectives of the project were to enhance

maritime services, improve navigational

safety and security and promote marine

environment protection.

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

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;

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.

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!

Thank you for your attention!