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NAV/COM REVIEW ((•••n dards set by IMO/IHO, the display of various chart formats, integra- tion of real-time date from the

Coastal and Ocean Water Level

Information System (COWLIS), interface to Automatic

Identification System (AIS) for silent ship-to-ship and ship-to- shore communications and a semi- automatic operating mode.

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BT Invests $20M In ICO

Global

British Telecom (BT) will invest $20 million in ICO Global

Communications, becoming the 50th ICO shareholder. With this agreement, BT plans to extend its global product portfolio, specifical- ly in specialized mobile markets such as corporate users, maritime aeronautical, ground transport and other high-mobility sectors.

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Pictured is Jebsens Enterprise which will be equipped with a SpecTec AMOS software sys- tem.

SpecTec has been awarded a con- tract by Jebsens Ship

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NECSA Postpones

Acceptance Of

Raster Charts

At the recent NAV43 (IMO

Subcommittee on Safety of

Navigation) meeting, a majori- ty of the nations voting in the

Plenary session of the

Subcommittee chose to post- pone accepting the raster chart as the legal equivalent to a paper chart.

The Navigational Electronic

Chart System Association (NECSA) has opposed this pro- posal on the grounds that the proposed system is an inade- quate version of an electronic chart and would deprive mariners of most of the promised improvements of this new technology.

The NECSA has resolved that use of Raster Electronic Chart as the legal equivalent and replacement for paper nautical charts, or as an Electronic

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