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Marine Electronics: Charts today," said Mark Nettles, a New

Orleans District cartographer. "To that end, the New Orleans Dis- trict's Website will provide free and easy access to current and future river

ENCs."

PMI To Train CMS Tugboat

Operators On ECDIS

Gregg Trunnell, Director of Pacific

Northwest Maritime Institute (PMI), announced that Crowley Marine Ser- vices (CMS) has appointed PMI to train its Seattle based crews in the operational use of Electronic Chart Display and

Information Systems (ECDIS). The 16- hour instructional course will be given over a two day period and will train

CMS deck officers in the basic functions of Transas Marine's NaviSailor 2500®.

CMS will continue to install Electronic

Chart Systems on their vessels over the next five years. In December 2000, the

USCG granted approval to PMI for a 35-hour ECDIS Course, the first such approval in the country.

U.S. Coast Guard Is Going Paperless

Marine Electronics Solutions, Inc. (MES), the supplier of all the navigation and external communications equip- ment for 50 US Coast Guard Protector

Class cutters being built at Bollinger

Shipyards, has confirmed: "The U.S.

Coast Guard issued an all Coast Guard message that sanctions the use of the

Marine Electronics Solutions,

Inc./Transas NaviSailor 2400 ECDIS for paper-less navigation."

MES' ECDIS solution includes more than 7,000 Transas full content vector charts in the master as well as backup

ECDIS stations. The master station is located in the bridge console while the backup station is located on the, now "obsolete," chart table. In addition to using the system for paperless naviga- tion, the crews also utilize the playback feature with primary and secondary tracks, radar overlay and acquired tar- gets. Marine Electronics Solutions, Inc. trains each crew in the usage of the

Transas NaviSailor 2400 ECDIS two weeks prior to the delivery of each ves- sel to the USCG

Polar Tanker Chooses C-MAP

Polar Tanker, Inc. selected C-MAP's electronic chart database, CM-93® Edi- tion 3 along with Raytheon's Pathfinder

MK2 ECDIS for the Tanker Endeavor, a millennium class double-hulled crude oil carrier. Eric James, Operations

Manager for C-MAP/Commercial said, "Perhaps one of the most powerful fea- tures of CM-93 is its ability to perform online updating via an Internet connec- tion. CM-93 charts may be updated by an automatic procedure based on elec- tronic Notice to Mariner corrections sent to the user via the Internet." C-

MAP's CM-93 is distributed in a highly compressed format requiring only one

CD for the entire world. It has been designed to be compliant with S-57 Edi- tion 3.0, the international standard issued by the IHO defining the format and contents of electronic charts for use with ECDIS. C-Map also added to its family of OEM chart plotter manufac- turers. With the introduction of its C-

MapNT compatible CND (central navi- gation display) GPS/chart plotter,

Brookes & Gatehouse (B&G) become the 38th chart plotter manufacturer worldwide to select C-Map.

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