Ship's Routeing & Mandatory Reporting Systems

Question 1

What is the Ship’s Routeing Guide?

Answer 1

• Routeing schemes designed to regulate the flow of traffic
• Must be adopted by the IMO to be mandatory
• Can apply to all ships or certain classes of ships

Question 2

What are some types of ship routeing?

Answer 2

• TSS
• Deepwater routes
• Recommended routes
• Precautionary area
• Area to be avoided

Question 3

What is the Routeing Chart?

Answer 3

• Actual charts with expected weather and useful passage planning information for each month

Includes:

• Routes and distances between ports
• Load line zones
• Ocean currents
• Ice limits
• Wind roses

Question 4

What are the mandatory reporting systems?

Answer 4

• Monitoring systems for traffic in PSSA’s or high traffic density areas
• Improve emergency response time
• List can be found in ALRS VOL 6

Question 5

What things are usually reported?

Answer 5

1. Ships name/callsign/IMO number/MMSI number
2. Ships course, speed, destination
3. Persons onboard
4. Hazardous cargo, IMO class and quantity
5. Defects/damages/deficiencies