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Making headway: IMO’s plan to leadshipping into a new digital era

S.PristromInternational Maritime Organization (IMO)

Making headway: IMO’s plan to lead shipping into a new digital eraPresentation outline

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IMO’s e-navigation Strategy Implementation Plan (SIP)


IMO’s e-navigation Strategy Implementation Plan (SIP)Sub-Solutions to Solution 1



Update of IMO’s e-navigation Strategy Implementation Plan (SIP)

NCSR 4 agreed

I Update of the SIP

I Prioritize the outputs and reorganize them

I Invited interested parties to submitproposals for the update


What does the seafarer and other users need?



Ship user needs

I Improved Ergonomics (bridge layout)

I Standardization of functionality for navigationdisplays (human-machine interface)

I Easy-to understand and to use familiarizationmaterial for onboard equipment

I User selectable information received viacommunication equipment

I More user-friendly display of MSI (NAVTEX,SafetyNET etc.

I Alert Management

I Standardized and automated reporting

I Automated Updating of Data and Documents



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Learning from accidentsUse of ECDIS

e-Navigation:

ECDIS featuresto improve safetyare buried underseveral layers andthere are often alot of alarms, whichcrew may switchoff (S.Clinch, UKMAIB chief inspec-tor).


Maritime Service Portfolios

Guidance on the definition andharmonization of the format and

structure of Maritime ServicePortfolios (MSPs)


Maritime Service Portfolios

Outcome of the first meeting of the IMO/IHO HarmonizationGroup on Data Modelling (HGDM)

I change of the definition of ”MSP”

I 3 levels of control and ownership

I High-level Template for Maritime Services


Making headway: IMO’s plan to lead shipping into a new digital era

Consequential work related tothe Polar Code

I Supplement performancestandards for navigation andcommunication equipmentused in polar waters

I Develop a work plan listingall performance and teststandards and requirementsin need of revision

e-Navigation:

I Magnetic variations inhigh latitudes

I Gyrocompass errors inhigh latitudes

I Hydrographic survey inpolar waters

I Radar echoes in ice

I Visibility of Satellites


IMO’s work on e-NavigationOutcome of NCSR 4/ MSC 98

GMDSS modernization

I MSC 98 approved the modernizationplan of the GMDSS

I MSC 98 approved amendments toSOLAS chapter IV* replacing’Inmarsat’ by ’recognized mobilesatellite service’

I *for adoption at MSC 99 and entryinto force in 2020


IMO’s work on e-Navigation

The GMDSS and e-Navigationlink

The GMDSS modernization projectneeds to continue to support theneeds of the e-navigation strategy(GMDSS Modernization Plan, par.10)


Information exchange between ships and shoreApplication of the FAL Convention

Convention on Facilitation ofInternational Traffic, 1965, as amended(FAL)

I Amendments entered into force 1 Jan2018 (res. FAL.12(40))

I New definitions added includingSingle Window

I RP 1.3quin: submissions required onthe arrival, stay and departure ofships, persons and cargo to be sentto a ”Single Window” (N.B. No Standard)



Data exchange format

I Information for the clearance to be in conformity withthe relevant UN Standards, including UN ElectronicData Interchange for Administration, Commerce andTransport (UN/EDIFACT) Standards, or otherinternationally agreed Standards, such as the XMLStandard.



Documents to be submitted by the ship to shorefor their clearance

1. General Declaration (FAL Form 1)

2. Cargo Declaration (FAL Form 2)

3. Ship’s Stores Declaration (FAL Form 3)

4. Crew’s Effects Declaration (FAL Form 4)

5. Crew List (FAL Form 5)

6. Passenger List (FAL Form 6)

7. Dangerous Goods Manifest (FAL Form 7)

8. Document under the Universal Postal Convention for mail

9. Maritime Declaration of Health

10. Security-related information

11. Adv.electronic cargo information for customs risk assessment

12. Adv.Notification for Waste Delivery to Port ReceptionFacilities


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