World ECDIS Day (WED) has announced its 2019 event date - 25th September 2019, and programme outline. The 2019 conference, a one-day event in Hamburg, will look at insights and...

World ECDIS Day 2019

Developed by the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO), Admiralty Vector Chart Service (AVCS) Online gives shore-based users and planning teams access to more than 15,000 Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs), updated weekly,...

ChartWorld has launched its My Route Appraisal (MyRA) digital routing service. The MyRA concept is built around the digitization and automation of voyage planning procedures, freeing up the bridge team...

Furuno and ChartWorld have announced a cooperation agreement on the promotion of ChartWorld’s information-overlay service to Furuno ECDIS operators and owners. ChartWorld Information Overlay, known as CIO+, is a data...

The year 2019 sees the centenary of the first Hydrographic Conference which took place in London in the summer of 1919. Only one year after the end of the First...

It is a long and fruitful tradition to consider emergent technologies as a driving force for progression in hydrographic appliances. The latest arrival on the scene is blockchain. While this technology...

Hydrographic Offices have realised that bathymetric data is not sufficiently represented in Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs). A few aspects of this topic have already been touched upon in the presentation...

In the article entitled 'How Blockchain Will Have an Impact on Navigation', published in the March/April 2018 issue of Hydro International, Gert Büttgenbach explains how the new blockchain technology could...

'Hull to Hull' (H2H), an EU-funded research project established to develop technical solutions for safer navigation in close proximity to other stationary or moving vessels and objects, is in its...