IC-ENC Supports Training with ChartWorld ECDIS

The International Centre for ENCs (IC-ENC) has selected the ChartWorld eGlobe G2 ECDIS as a tool to provide their 37 member nations to supplement ENC production and validation processes. This will give each member Hydrographic Office the opportunity to load their ENCs into an ECDIS in order that the maritime user’s perspective can be considered and to check its interoperability with adjacent data.

The SevenCs display engine inside the ChartWorld eGlobe G2 ECDIS is used by 30% of all ECDIS and ECS users within the SOLAS market, allowing IC-ENC and its members to make a representative data assessment on a user friendly ECDIS, whilst following the latest performance standards. The ChartWorld eGlobe G2 ECDIS software will be supplied to those member nations following attendance on IC-ENC’s International ENC Validation training course.

IC-ENC has delivered three International ENC Validation training courses this year, each held in a different part of the world. The first training course was held in Taunton, UK, in February 2015. The second was held in Wollongong, Australia, in May, and the third course has just been delivered in Panama, Central America, during September. The course provides its members with the knowledge and skills required to perform data validation at their home ENC production offices. The training course runs for a period of two weeks, and runs through the entire ENC Validation process from start to finish, as well as providing an overview of IC-ENC’s additional three core services: ENC production support, ENC distribution and ENC revenue management. One specific element of the course is designed to enable each user to gain the maximum benefit from the ChartWorld eGlobe G2 ECDIS.

IC-ENC will be holding three further training courses in 2016, for which a further ECDIS delivery schedule plan will be implemented.