eNavigation 2011:
Moving Toward an Integrated Information Environment For Marine Transportation
eNavigation 2011 will focus on e-navigation's progress toward an integrated information environment serving the World's maritime community.
The conference goal is to educate attendees about evolutionary, policy and regulatory changes around e-navigation and encourage them to consider how, like the Internet, user-driven e-navigation will alter maritime commerce.
Day 1: The Emerging Role of e-Navigation
We open this year’s conference with a unique examination of the evolution of e-navigation in the wake of e-Navigation Correspondence Group’s recent report to the 57th Session of the Safety of Navigation Subcommittee of the IMO.
According the to Correspondence Group’s report, e-navigation will establish an integrated information environment for the entire maritime community. Its impact will be far reaching. The initial impact of e-navigation beyond the shipboard environment will affect waterway management and marine aids to navigation.
Sessions in Day 1 will examine these immediate and more far reaching impacts.
Day 2: ECDIS
During the period 2012 – 2018, vessels subject to SOLAS will be required to carry ECDIS, yet as many as 60% of those ships are currently using Electronic Charting Systems (ECS) or paper charts.
The evolution to ECDIS will require a significant shift in both mind-set and competence.
Presentations will focus on the underlying aspects ECDIS technology that should be understood and considered in planning for its application and use.
The goal of day 2 is to convey an understanding of the complexity of ECDIS--its computing environment and its communications environment--as the two will affect the use of ECDIS technology.
Implicit in this discussion is an analysis of the benefits and deficiencies of current ECDIS technology, use and training.
eNavigation 2011 is the only annual conference of its kind specifically aimed at the operations sector of the global maritime industry. It a unique opportunity for industry to make itself heard, and be involved in the development of the regulatory environment.
The conference will provide attendees with unique insight into how e-navigation is developing around the world, with a focus on the implications resulting from the establishment of e-navigation upon the global marine operating environment.
Please join us in Seattle this fall as we explore eNav, and how it will affect the commercial maritime operating environment.
Capt. Robert Moore USCG (ret.) |
Fred W. Pot Co Chair |
Peter Philips Philips Publishing Group Conference Producer |
