The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has launched its new flagship digital chart product, the Admiralty Vector Chart Service (AVCS).
UKHO says that AVCS will provide the international mariner with “an integrated global set of Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) schemed in folios along the major shipping routes and covering the world’s top ports, with ordering, flexible licensing and updating services reflecting the operation of the 21st century mariner.”
The Organisation also says that the service will provide access to carriage compliant ENCs from a single ‘value added’ source, to overcome the present requirement to carry, maintain and use a mix of ENC, Raster and paper charts drawn from multiple sources.
UKHO says that AVCS will provide the international mariner with “an integrated global set of Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) schemed in folios along the major shipping routes and covering the world’s top ports, with ordering, flexible licensing and updating services reflecting the operation of the 21st century mariner.”
The Organisation also says that the service will provide access to carriage compliant ENCs from a single ‘value added’ source, to overcome the present requirement to carry, maintain and use a mix of ENC, Raster and paper charts drawn from multiple sources.
AVCS provides access to all previously available ENCs, and “exclusive access” to a significant number of new ENCs, produced by the UKHO in co-operation with many of the world’s Hydrographic offices.
The UKHO has also worked with many Hydrographic Offices to improve consistency, to ensure that newly produced coverage seamlessly sits alongside existing coverage.
The UKHO has also worked with many Hydrographic Offices to improve consistency, to ensure that newly produced coverage seamlessly sits alongside existing coverage.
AVCS comprises only of official ENCs produced by government Hydrographic Offices, so seafarers can be certain that any information contained in the folio is fully compliant with SOLAS legislation for use within Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS).
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