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ECDIS e-navigation


Introduction Back to the future I


t’salmost here. Very soon an inexorable process of change will be triggered –aprocess that


will one day see the work of bridge teams on SOLAS vessels change fundamentally. In time, all navigational norms will be su- perseded by dynamic electronic processes, and the way in which ships ply their trade will be changed forever.Alandmark day is on the horizon. I am of course referring to the delivery,


Nick Blackmore Editor


by the IMO’s Safety of Navigation subcom- mittee, of the ‘e-navigation strategy im- plementation plan’ to the Maritime Safety Committee in 2014. Or perhaps I’m being abit facetious.


Before that milestone we do have the little


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