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EMSA plays an important role in the monitoring of maritime traffic through the SafeSeaNet System On 18 October the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) took over the Long-Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) International Data Exchange (LRIT-DE) from the US Coast Guard, which had hosted the Exchange temporarily since 2009.The LRIT-DE ensures the flow of information between various LRIT datacentres around the globe. EMSA was appointed by the IMO's Maritime Safety Committee during its 87th session, and the transfer process has now been successfully completed.In addition to its role of operator, EMSA also hosts the EU's LRIT Co-operative Data Centre, which collects position reports from the fleet of the EU Member States, as well as those from several overseas territories, Norway and Iceland and some third-world countries.EMSA plays an important role in the monitoring of maritime traffic through the SafeSeaNet System. SafeSeaNet uses AIS (Automatic Identification System) and LRIT position data to generate an accurate overview of traffic passing along the European Coast, providing and receive information on ships, ship movements, and hazardous cargoes.Source: INTERTANKO

As part of the Long Range Identification and Tracking system 4 times per day, 7 days per week, merchant ships around the worldbroadcast information about their position to satellites via a system called Long Range Identification and Tracking, or LRIT.Information from ships is relayed by satellites to Data Centres around the world, and the LRIT system enables maritime authorities to keep a constant eye on the position of ships that form a part of their country's fleet. On 18 October 2011, EMSA becomes the operator of theLRIT‐International Data Exchange, or 'LRIT‐IDE', the central node which acts like a 'switchboard' to manage the flow of LRIT information between various LRIT Data Centres around the world."We are extremely pleased that the transfer of the responsibility for the IDE from the US Coast Guard to EMSA has been achieved successfully" said Willem de Ruiter, Executive Director of the Agency "The cooperation with the International Maritime Organization and the US Coast Guard, the former operator and developer of this system, has been very good: a positive example of international collaboration aimed at enhancing maritime safety worldwide".What is LRIT?LRIT tracks the position of any merchant ship (> 300 gross tonnage), passenger ship or mobile offshore ...

Including VMS , LRIT and FleetNet capabilities Vizada has launched its SkyFile C Store & Push service, to offer customers new data reporting and polling options, including VMS (Vessel Monitoring System), LRIT (Long Range Identification & Tracking) and FleetNet capabilities.The system aims to assist shipping companies in adhering to international maritime law with respect to tracking, such as International Maritime Organisation regulations which stipulate that a vessel must send a position report every six hours, and that this report must in turn be delivered to the data centre in less than 15 minutes (or seven minutes in European countries).SkyFile-C Store & Push runs over a dedicated platform, developed by Vizada at its teleport in Aussaguel, France, as part of a major upgrade to its Inmarsat-C infrastructure.In addition to providing greater capacity for data reporting traffic such as VMS and LRIT, the platform enables all data reports transmitted from vessels to be stored in a database at the gateway.In case of network failure during transmission, the reports can be protected and forwarded to data centres at a later stage once the network issues have been resolved.Data reports can be delivered over a number of different networks, including FTP and IP, to ...

MSC.88 outcome MSC.1/Circ.1376 Please find here below the following useful informationIMO Continuity of Service Plan for the LRIT System