Norway Signs Agreement with Korea on ENC Distribution
The international official Primar Stavanger electronic navigational chart (ENC) service has signed an ENC distribution agreement with e-MLX Co Ltd, official distributor of Korean ENCs.
This deal means that the Primar Stavanger service, which is operated by the Norwegian Hydrographic Service (NHS), will be extended to include all the ENCs produced by and available from Korea.
It thereby marks an important step in the expansion of Primar Stavanger’s coverage, which makes this official ENC service by far the most complete and consistent in the world.
The first Korean ENCs are expected to be available from March 2005, and will consist up to 210 ENC cells in 286 files totalling 162.3 MB in size. Of these, 24 files will be in Overview scale (usage band 1), 17 in General scale (usage band 2), 65 in Coastal scale (usage band 3), 45 in Approach scale (usage band 4) and 135 in Harbour scale (usage band 5).
These ENCs offer full coverage of the eastern, western and southern coasts of Korea in large scales, as well as the adjacent sea areas in smaller scales.
e-MLX will supply ENCs through Primar Stavanger’s virtual Primar network (VPN) system, using the latter’s proven data protection system.
