The Nautical Institute has launched a new publication which aims to aid maritime organisations through the transition from navigating with paper charts to navigating with ECDIS. 'From Paper Charts to...

UK-Based shipping company "Carisbrooke Shipping" ordered 10 Navi-Sailor 4000 dual ECDIS MFD systems for their new build vessels being built with Transas Marine (UK). The build program of the vessels...

An IHO ECDIS Stakeholders’ Forum will be held in conjunction with the 11th Meeting of the IHO Committee on the Worldwide ENC Database (WEND) from 3 to 4 September 2008....

An electronic chart system, whether an Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) or an Electronic Chart System (ECS), is primarily designed for safe navigation. But its ability to display...

The International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO) and the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) are co-operating very closely to take appropriate action for the mandatory carriage of ECDIS to increase safety of navigation....

After a gap of five years, the 2nd ECDIS Conference took place in Singapore in October 2003. At first glance everything was as before: the venue of the conference, its...

The International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO) and the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) are co-operating very closely to take appropriate action for the mandatory carriage of ECDIS to increase safety of navigation....

The IMO is considering a phased programme to make the carriage of ECDIS compulsory. This could mean that certain vessels be required to carry ECDIS from as early as 2008....

As far back as 1989 a provisional performance standard for Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) was published and a final standard adopted by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)...

The first ECDIS Stakeholders meeting that took place in Rostock (Germany) in September 2005 in conjunction with the seventeenth meeting of the Committee on Hydrographic Requirements for Information Systems (CHRIS)...