ACTION ITEM ACTION ITEM INLAND ENC MACHC 2015

ACTION ITEM – INLAND ENC Action Item  Brazil to engage other countries in the MACHC region and other RHCs to develop a platform in the area of Inland ENC (IENC).

ACTION ITEM – INLAND ENC 13th Annual Meeting Nanjing/China, OCT2015, with the assistance of USA, China, Brazil and Europe representatives. Industry representatives also took part – Technical Coordinators; Key points were discussed: updates on IENC activities in the various regions, review and acceptance of change requests, status of IHO S-100, S-99 and S-101 development, IEHG participation in S-100 Registry, the future alignment with IHO S-100 based standards and IEHG S-401 developments (future Inland ENC Product Specification).

ACTION ITEM – INLAND ENC Why Inland ENC? ― The easiest solution to ensure full compatibility with maritime Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) would be to use the worldwide maritime standards for Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs). But sometimes that’s not possible: traffic on inland waterways is not regulated by the maritime Collision Prevention Rules (COLREG), but by regional regulations. Objects such as bridges can only be encoded in a very basic form for maritime ENCs, but are extremely important for inland navigation. An adaptable product for waterway navigation.

ACTION ITEM – INLAND ENC Europe: ― Rivers Danube and Reno, for example, have their own comission to disseminate technical standards for the production and use of the Inland ENC in both rivers. 16 countries take part on the comissions, just 2 of them don’t distribute Inland ENC for free. ― More than km of waterways are covered by Inland ENC in Europe, more than ships equipped with Inland ECDIS and 3 navigation systems approved and certified for usage.

ACTION ITEM – INLAND ENC

Brazil  The work flow with HPD, for example, turns the updating easier and faster, in comparison to paper chart products, mainly in rivers with a high rate of changing.

ACTION ITEM – INLAND ENC

25 Inland ENC of Paraguay River being tested by users (civilian + military navigators). Possibility: 1.270km of coverage. Tiete-Parana Waterway: + 700km Uruguai-Brasil Waterway: + 450km UB7/ UB8

ACTION ITEM – INLAND ENC Brazil Developing technical + operational minimum requirements for the system: ― Regional aspects must be observed. Discussions on going at IEHG, so as to develop the future Inland ENC Product Specification: IEHG S-401 Inland ENC. All Inland ENC publications and functions are hosted at: ― Encourage the participation of other countries on IEHG (Colombia, Venezuela, …).

ACTION ITEM – INLAND ENC IEHG Meeting 2016: October Manaus/BR. IEHG Meeting 2016: October Manaus/BR.

ACTION ITEM – INLAND ENC Action Item  Brazil to engage other countries in the MACHC region and other RHCs to develop a platform in the area of Inland ENC (IENC). Action Item  Brazil to share experience and expertise on development of Inland ENC with interested countries in MACHC region.