Maritime Safety

NAVTEX

NAVTEX (Introduction) NAVTEX is an international automated direct-printing service that promulgates navigational and meteorological warnings as well as urgent information to vessels. It has been developed to provide low cost maritime safety information and other information of vital importance. Its name results from the term ‘navigation telex’. NAVTEX system is recommended to administrations responsible for […]
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IALA Maritime Buoyage System

The need for the establishment of a unified buoyage system became crucial the last decades, because of the great extend of the international navigational traffic, the accidents and, finally, because of the variety of the buoyage systems that were locally applied by the States. It has to be highlighted that during 1975 more than 30 […]
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Types of Navwarns

Region Navwarns Long range Programmed transmissions by the coordinator of the region. They can cover, in a 24 hour basis, a sea area that can be covered by a fast vessel (almost 700m). Coastal Navwarns Programmed transmissions by a national coordinating authority, via the national inshore stations. They cover the country’s sea area. Local Navwarns […]
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Safe Speed

Look – Out Every vessel shall at all times maintain a proper look-out by sight and hearing as well as by all available means appropriate in the prevailing circumstances and conditions so as to make a full appraisal of the situation and of the risk of collision. Safe Speed Every vessel shall at all times […]
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