Tag: GPS

The Britannia P&I Club has issued its latest “Crew Watch” edition, highlighting the growing concern over navigational risks at sea due to the increasing threat of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) jamming and spoofing.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) published the investigation on an incident in which a bulk carrier came within 200 m of grounding in the Great Barrier Reef, after a GPS unit onboard the ship began providing false information to the pilot and crew on board.

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.

According to LLoyd's Register, a product alert has been issued for the Thrane & Thrane Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) units, model TT-3026X. Since 26 March 2023, the Global Positioning System (GPS) modules of older TT-3026X models have not been working properly after a change in the GPS navigation message signals (GPS rollover). 

The U.S. Maritime Administration informs that there have been reported GPS interference incidents in various locations around the world, especially in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. 

On January 2, 2020, some models of FRUNO GPS or GMDSS devices with built-in FRUNO GPS experienced the ROLLOVER phenomenon, which caused a lot of trouble for many ships, reports Capt.Zhaoqingwei, Marine Safety Manager at DASIN SHIPPING PTE LTD.

The International Foundation for Aids to Navigation (IFAN) announced an around $1.2m investment in safe navigation in the Middle East Gulf.

In December's Be Cyber Aware at Sea, Phish and Ships explains the dangers of GPS spoofing and how can the shipping industry protect its GPS technologies, in light of automation development within the industry.

Ships have reported an increasing number of cases of significant GPS interference and jamming in recent months. The geographic areas with more than one reported incident include the eastern and central Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf, and multiple Chinese ports.

Multiple instances of significant GPS interference have been reported worldwide in the maritime domain, says US MARAD.