In July 2002, the revised Chapter V of the IMO Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention entered into force. Under the new Regulation 9, the Contracting Governments of SOLAS...

The UK Hydrographic Office's Admiralty ENC and ECDIS services continue their major expansion with over 6,500 ENC cells now available worldwide and with a further 1,000 cells scheduled to be...

UK Hydrographic Office's worldwide Admiralty ENC and ECDIS services is expanded with the introduction of almost 300 new cells covering Korean waters. Agreement over the cells was reached in November...

The Royal Navy Ice patrol ship HMS Endurance, which amongst other tasks is carrying survey work in the Antarctic on behalf of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) to improve...

SeaZone Solutions has completed the first pilot area as part of its ongoing Coastline Mapping Improvement Programme (CMIP). This is set to change the understanding of the relationship between land...

The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has released Pakistani ENCs within the Admiralty ENC and ECDIS Services. The first three ENC cells released provide coverage of the key ports and...

Hydrographic surveyors collect data for various purposes, e.g. for producing nautical charts. Most data are properly archived for future reference, while other data are just represented in a survey-report. Over...

On behalf of the entire Hydro International team, I wish you a healthy and prosperous New Year. And to those readers who celebrate the start of a new year on...

The Republic of Malta is an Archipelago, which for centuries has served as a crossroads between Europe and Africa in the central sea, which connects the eastern and the western...

Team-work, which has resulted in the production of such flagship publications as The Astronomical Almanac and The Nautical Almanac, has been formalised. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been agreed...