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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 ...
[5] Additional capabilities of TV32 include: [6] Vessel traffic management (Vessel Traffic Service, situation displays etc.) Canal transit management; Maritime de-confliction; Safety statistics (via data logging & playback, snapshot files) Pilot navigation (ETA, closest point of approach, dead reckoning) Accident investigation (via data logging ...
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.
The English Channel connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Southern part of the North Sea and is one of the busiest shipping areas in the world with ships going in numerous direction: some are passing through in transit from the Southwest to Northeast (or vice versa) and others serving the many ports around the English Channel, including ferries crossing the Channel.
Vessel traffic service, maritime traffic control system for a port or harbor; Vertical Tabulation Set, character code 0x8A in the C0 and C1 control codes; Virginia Theological Seminary, an Episcopal seminary in Alexandria, Virginia; Video Title Set, a directory element on a DVD-Video disk; Virtual Tape Server, an IBM Virtual tape library system
Sea traffic management (STM) is a methodology, developed by the Swedish Maritime Administration [1] MonaLisa project, endorsed by the European Commission, [2] sought to define a set of systems and procedures to guide and monitor sea traffic in a manner similar to air traffic management.
Vessel Traffic Services – BC coast Port operations, VTS Port operations A port operations Commercial port operations, fishing port operations, pilots, ship in a fishing port, ship in a commercial port 13: 156.650: 156.650 Bridge-to-bridge working A Bridge-to-bridge safety A : Vessels > 20m must maintain watch, Tx limited to 1 watt. Movable ...
TSSs are used to regulate the traffic at busy, confined waterways or around capes. Within a TSS there is normally at least one traffic-lane in each main-direction, turning-points, deep-water lanes and separation zones between the main traffic lanes. Most TSS include 'inshore traffic zones' between the (outer) lines and the coast.