National system for Reporting and Information in Iceland

Baldur BjartmarssonDirector of Lighthouse and Management Div.Icelandic Maritime Administration

Preface

MTS Reykjavik

Surveillance and reporting systems

IMA´s information system

Maritime Traffic Service, Reykjavik

• A law on establishing MTS was passed in 2002

• A contract was made in June 2004 with following organizations to run the MTS:

– Icelandic Coast Guard– Emergency Alert 112– Landsbjorg, Icelandic association for search and

rescue

• Icelandic Maritime Adm. monitors MTS on behalf of Ministry of Transport

• MTS commenced in August 2004

The launching and organization of MTS Reykjavik

Main functions of the MTS

Costal radio service Surveillance of marine traffic • Maritime Assistance Service• MRCC

• MTS Reykjavik is under supervision of the Icelandic coast guard

Maritime Traffic Service Reykjavik

Reporting and Surveillance systems

Reporting / Surveillance systems at the MTS

— Automatic surveillance system for fishing vessels

— Ship reporting system

— AIS ( in installation phase)

Automatic surveillance system for fishing vessels

• Automatic surveillance system for fishing vessels established in May 2000

• The main purpose of the system is safety monitoring

• Has a special distress signaling mechanism, which has the highest priority in the data transmission

• VHF based but can be accessed by Inmarsat

Automatic surveillance system for fishing vessels

• Vessels up to 24 m report every 15 minutes (1hr), vessels over 24 m report at 12 hr interval

• 24/365 surveilance at MTS Reykjavik

• Majority of all distress cases are solved through the system with the aid of vessels in the vicinity of distress

The system

• A shipborne VHF station with a distress button.• 9 onshore base stations with fixed telephone lines

and 28 repeaters, total of 37 shore-stations, most of them with standby spare stations for increased safety

• VHF Network Controller• Communication Server• Monitoring Console w. /specialized software

The users

• 1600 user equipments installed, 500 to 1000 in daily use

• 100 ships use INMARSAT- C

• 90 ships use INMARSAT- C through the Coastguard (NEAFC/NFO)

• New input can easily be added (e.g. AIS)

The TSS Boat Station, Base Station and Repeater Station

Graphical output that shows every vessel in the system – its position, speed and course

Ship reporting system

Ship reporting system MTS has a mandatory ship reporting system running

Reporting sheet, available at webside, covers:

• General information, name, owner, destination, ETA, bunker oil information, etc.

• Hazmat information

• ISPS information

– Ship carrying oil and hazmat report every 6 hrs inside IEEZ

AIS in Iceland

AIS – plan for Iceland

IMA´s information system on weather and seastate

IMA´s information system • Real-time information are updated every hour

• 9 offshore wave buoys owned by IMA• 15 automatic weather stations owned by IMA and

“IMO”• 14 automatic harbour stations with weather, tide and

wave gauges in harbours owned by harbours• Wave and weather forecast received daily at 03:30 GMT via

the Icelandic Meteorological Office from the ECMWF – European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in Reading UK

• Forecasting at 6 hrs intervals up to 6 days• Numerical Tidal Simulation Model to compute tides, tidal

currents and storm surge in North Atlantic for next two days

Access to enviromental data

• Access to real-time measurements opended:

– in 1996 to a automatic voice service.• up to 400 calls per day and 6500 calls per month

– in 1997 to IMA home page www.sigling.is • average of 8000 visits per month

– in 2002 to tide and storm surge forecast

– in 2004 wave height information on teletext (TV)

Wave forecast and measured waves

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