Hatteland Display received an order for 290 Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) displays for installation on the US Coast Guard buoy tender fleet. The United States Coast Guard...

The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) hosted its 3rd ECDIS Stakeholders’ Forum in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, on 7 and 8 November 2007. The forum was held during the annual meeting of...

Svitzer has confirmed supply of Transas Dual Navi-Sailor 3000-I ECDIS for three tug boats, the ‘Freja', the ‘Sigyn' and the ‘Skuld'. Feedback from captains and officers on board the 2...

The champions of ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display & Information Systems) correctly claim that, when properly understood, its use increases the safety of navigation. Its critics point out that it is...

In September 2001, the University of Southern Mississippi, in conjunction with the US Navy, established an Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) Laboratory to conduct Research, Development, Test and...

Duvoel Ltda from Montevideo, Uruguay have created ENCs of the Hidrovja, a river network over the countries Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, mainly composed of the rivers Paraguay and Paraná....

1 July 2018 will be a historic date for chart navigation at sea, states Mathias Jonas in a recent article. On exactly this day ECDIS carriage requirement will be mandated for...

Ahead of the IHO’s compliance deadline of 31 August 2017, the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) urged owners and operators to ensure their ECDIS systems are using S-52 Presentation Library...

Raytheon Anschütz, Germany, has launched the new ECDIS NX software on the opening day of Nor-Shipping 2017. SYNAPSIS ECDIS NX offers a modern design, user intuitiveness and ‘smart’ functionality to...

SevenCs has announced the next-generation software development kit (SDK) for maritime applications, called Nautilus ECDIS Kernel.  ‘Nautilus’ combines the longest SDK experience in the market with current technology. Some of...