Success for Montenegro's Capacity Building
After signing an RENC membership agreement with the Institute of Hydrometeorology and Seismology Montenegro (IHMS) in November 2013, PRIMAR and the Norwegian Hydrographic Service have teamed up with SevenCs for capacity building. Funded by the Norwegian Hydrographic Service, PRIMAR was able to provide its latest member with a full ENC production environment plus training.
Despite having a motivated team, paper charts and some recent surveys, IHMS was lacking a production environment and detailed knowledge in ENC production. Utilising the new SevenCs capacity-building programme, the setup of IHMS production environment and staff training was completed in less than three months.
IHMS commented that the professional approach of PRIMAR helped fulfilling their obligation to produce ENCs for the Montenegro territorial waters and close the coverage gaps before all ships are equipped with ECDIS.
