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Aug 2, 2024, 10:10:04 PM8/2/24

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Speaking at The Nautical Institute's 2016 AGM, Captain Yves Vandenborn AFNI of The Standard Club reveals the findings of a navigational risk review conducted by the Club on some of its member vessels.

e-Navigation holds great promise to enhance safety and efficiency in the international maritime industry. To help ensure that the promise of e-navigation is realised, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has taken steps to improve the development processes for new navigational systems.

In June 2015, the IMO approved the Software Quality Assurance and Human Centred Design Guideline for e-navigation. Using a life-cycle development process with five stages, the guideline lays out best practice methods to develop new systems for e-navigation, with a focus on quality and user experience.

The IMO further describes the compelling need for e-Navigation as: A clear and compelling need to equip the master of a vessel and those ashore responsible for the safety of shipping with modern, proven tools to make maritime navigation and communications more reliable and user friendly and thereby reducing errors. However, if current technological advances continue without proper coordination there is a risk that the future development of marine navigation systems will be hampered through a lack of standardisation onboard and ashore, incompatibility between vessels and an increased and unnecessary level of complexity.