Jeppesen Primar ENC Service
Jeppesen Marine has launched Jeppesen PRIMAR ENC Service, which effectively combines two services into a single offering that ensures mariners easy access to charts, from the Norwegian provider of marine electronic charts.
Jeppesen PRIMAR ENC Service will ensure that mariners are always navigating by an approved Electronic Navigation Chart (ENC) from PRIMAR or other hydrographic offices, when these are available. When an ENC is not available, the service will notify the navigator (during route planning or navigation) and run from the high-quality private vector data produced and distributed by Jeppesen Marine. Previously, these two sources of data were sold and distributed separately.
The introduction of Jeppesen PRIMAR ENC Service will create no new challenges for purchasing, operations or training. The product will optimise chart provision from the customers' perspective; the ECDIS will automatically utilise ENCs when they are available for a given geographical zone, and suppress other data. When an ENC is not available, the ECDIS will notify navigators and route planners, and run from Jeppesen Marine's global coverage of high-quality vector chart data. This prevents both the inefficient overlapping of data and the usage of non-official data when an ENC is available.
Jeppesen PRIMAR ENC Service will be installed in the course of minutes with one DVD. Thereafter, it can be updated either via a single DVD or via a free download (when and where Internet connectivity makes this possible). Further, Jeppesen Marine's Dynamic Licensing will ensure that navigators pay only for those chart licenses that they need, when they are using the Jeppesen PRIMAR ENC Service. Additional navigation services and information, such as weather routing and route planning, will be available as before.
