The seventh meeting of the pilot project on the facilitation of ship-to-shore reporting executed using European Maritime and Fisheries Funds, enters the project into the final stage.
EMSA has been running this project with 14 volunteering member states to identify possible solutions involving the re-use of available information in order to facilitate and minimise the reporting procedures from ship to shore and at the same time to improve coastal stations’ situational awareness.
Namely, the Integrated Reports Distribution (IRD) service has been developed within the project to prepare and distribute to member state coastal stations Integrated Ship Reports (ISR) on ships sailing in their areas of interest.
IRD also aims to provide an interface for ships to submit Mandatory Ship Reporting System and Vessel Traffic Service reports to coastal stations by electronic means, and more spefically via internet or using new VDES technology that will be tested in cooperation with the European Space Agency and Space Norway.
The project is currently in its final phase with operational tests and demonstrations taking place in the last quarter of 2021.
