Tag: AIS

On 23 June 2023 the EU Council adopted the 11th package of economic sanctions against Russia to prevent their circumvention and further erode Russia’s revenues, which includes a port ban to tackle illegal transfers.

Thomas Timlen, Analyst South-east Asia, Risk Intelligence, says that while there are well known consequences to the marine environment that can result from unauthorised ship-to-ship transfers, another consequence is the threat of innocent vessels being penalised as a result of sanction busters broadcasting false vessel identification details.

On the eleventh sanction package against Russia, the EU introduced a prohibition to access EU ports for vessels which are transporting Russian oil and have conducted ship–to-ship transfers or turned off their automatic identification system (AIS).

United States Coast Guard (USCG) has released a Marine Safety Alert for ensuring proper configuration of digital selective calling (DSC)-equipped radios.

The IMO Navigation, Communications, and Search and Rescue Sub-Committee (NCSR) 10 (10-19 May) considered the introduction of the proposed VHF Data Exchange System (VDES) into SOLAS.

A new Insight Brief by the Global Maritime Forum (GMF) explores the legal and contractual changes to enable operational efficiency in shipping featuring learnings from a series of meetings and workshops gathering perspectives from experts across the maritime value chain—shipowners, operators, charterers, ports, and NGOs—as part of the Short Term Actions Taskforce.

West of England P&I Club's Emma Forbes-Gearey, Loss Prevention Officer, provides three practical steps to promote better Automatic Identification System (AIS) use.

According to a new complaint, the UK capital’s insurance industry is partly to blame when fishing vessels “go dark” at sea by turning off their mandatory satellite tracking equipment.

New research displays intentional disabling of automatic identification system devices to provide insights into illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activity.

The Coast Guard Inspections and Compliance Directorate published a Marine Safety Information Bulletin to inform mariners of newly published technical standard addressing LED radio interference to maritime VHF radio and AIS.