What's ECDIS？

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What's ECDIS

An Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) is a computer-based navigation system that complies with IMO regulations and can function as an alternative for paper navigation charts. One of the performance standards is to have ENCs installed for the intended voyage.

After hundreds of years of sailing with paper charts, merchant-shipping fleets will make a transition to digital navigation in little more than 20 years. The JRC ECDIS’s may, if flag state/class society approves, be used as the primary source of navigational information in place of paper charts.

A new approach

Probably the biggest change is the ENC’s used inside an ECDIS, representing a new approach to navigation. As opposed to a paper reference, an ENC is a key component for ECDIS navigation, assisting in navigational decision-making and situational awareness as it’s able to continuously indicate a vessel’s position relative to land, objects, hazards and more.

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