ATON 2007 - Aids to Navigation Symposium
ATON 2007 is an AMSA sponsored four-day aids to navigation
symposium that will be held in Fremantle from 28 to 31 August 2007. ATON 2007 is being co-hosted by the
West Australian Department of Planning and Infrastructure. Following the
success of ATON 2005 (a two-day aids to navigation symposium held in Canberra
in March 2005), ATON 2007 will facilitate discussion and information sharing
between organisations charged with responsibility for providing marine aids to
navigation.
The Symposium will be timely in terms of Australia’s
AtoN regulators preparing for a future national audit by the International
Maritime Organization of AtoN provision. There
will also be a major focus on Automatic Identification System (AIS) equipment
in recognition of the widening range of AIS issues emerging that have
significant implications for AtoN regulators and ports. (read more...) (Courtesy "Australian Maritime Safety Authority")
The
Italian port of Trieste has
ordered that, since September 16, all vessels fitted with Automatic
Identification Systems (AIS) must keep the system running when calling at the
port. Whenever the AIS needs to be temporarily switched off, such as when
loading or discharging dangerous goods, the Master of the vessel must report
the same in the preliminary communication presented to the Trieste Harbour
Master's Office. www.porto.trieste.it
(courtesy “Digital Ship, October 2007”)
I attended the Singapore Meeting on the
Straits of Malacca and Singapore:
Enhancing Safety, Security and Environmental Protection (the Meeting) which was
held at the Swissôtel the Stamford, Singapore from
4 – 6 September 2007…….
The details
of the support are:-
・Project 3 –
Demonstration project of class B automatic idntification system (AIS) transponder on
small ships – supported by Australia,
Japan and Republic of Korea; (read more....) (Courtesy
"Friends of WMU, Japan
Nationwide Automatic Identification System (NAIS)
In response to the Maritime Transportation Security Act of
2002, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) is developing a two-way maritime data
communication system based on Automatic Identification System (AIS) technology,
referred to as the Nationwide Automatic Identification System (NAIS). AIS is a
maritime digital broadcast system that continually transmits and receives
voiceless exchange of vessel data including: vessel identity, position, speed,
course, destination and other data of critical interest for navigation safety
and maritime security. (read more....) (Courtesy "United States Coast Guard")
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