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An information service is a service to ensure that essential information becomes available in time for onboard navigational decision-making. The information service is provided by broadcasting information at fixed times and intervals or when deemed necessary by the vessel traffic service or at the request of a vessel, and may include for example reports on the position, identity and intentions ...
NOR VTS is responsible for vessel traffic services within the Norwegian exclusive economic zone, including the fisheries protection zones around Svalbard and Jan Mayen, but excluding the EEZ around Bouvetøya. It also does not include areas within the baseline of continental Norway, but it does include the territorial waters outside these.
Kvitsøy VTS is located in the village of Ydstebøhavn on the island municipality of Kvitsøy. Kvitsøy Vessel Traffic Service Centre (Norwegian: Kvitsøy trafikksentral), commonly abbreviated Kvitsøy VTS, is a vessel traffic service and pilot dispatch station situated on the island municipality of Kvitsøy in Norway.
Fedje Vessel Traffic Service Centre (Norwegian: Fedje trafikksentral), commonly abbreviated Fedje VTS, is a vessel traffic service and pilot station situated on the island of Fedje in Fedje, Norway. Its main responsibility is handling traffic headed to the offshore bases and refineries at Sture and Mongstad .
The automatic identification system (AIS) is an automatic tracking system that uses transceivers on ships and is used by vessel traffic services (VTS). When satellites are used to receive AIS signatures, the term Satellite-AIS (S-AIS) is used.
Sectors replaced Coast Guard Groups, Marine Safety Offices (MSO), Activities, and Vessel Traffic Services (VTS). Previously, a Group and its units provided Search and Rescue (SAR), maritime law enforcement, recreational boating safety, and maintained aids to navigation.
Building regional Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) capabilities; Allowing the development of vessel safety statistics & analysis of vessel transits; Serving as the underlying feed for layering complementary data (radar pictures, oil spill monitoring, port operations etc.)
VTS – Vessel Traffic Services – concentrating on all issues surrounding VTS IALA committees provide important documentation to the International Hydrographic Organization and other international organizations, while the IALA Secretariat acts as a clearing house for the exchange of technical information, and organizes seminars and technical ...