ECDIS Buyers Guide

A Guide To ECDIS

A Guide To ECDIS

Your Journey To Paperless I-Navigation With iECDIS™ Has Begun! You’ve started the journey and we’re here

to help you get there. You discarded paper maps for navigation in your car years ago

• Improved navigational awareness with the integration of chart, positioning and navigational information

in favour of GPS satnav, and now it’s time

• Real-time accurate ship position

revolution on your ships. i-Navigation using

• Reduction of human error & elimination of

paper charts:

• Alarm points can be set

to embrace the benefits of electronic chart

iECDIS™ offers you so many benefits over

• Automatic monitoring of vessel voyage route time needed to manually update charts • No need to store numerous paper charts

Let’s not pretend though that changing to i-navigation is a simple task, because it’s not there’s a lot to learn and a lot to do. But difficult or not, you’ve got to do it sooner or later - the sooner the better to get an advantage over your competitors. That’s why we’ve produced this simple step by step guide to what’s required to embrace the revolution. We hope it helps you to decide what’s right for your ships and when. Whether you choose our amazing iECDIS™ for your ships or not, we hope you’ll remember Martek Marine for giving you a helping hand in adopting paperless navigation. Happy sailing!

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Steps To Compliance:

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Implementation Dates

First things first - you need to decide when

Choice 2 - do it now! Why wait until the latest

to fit ECDIS to each of your ships and for this

possible time? Did you wait to deploy satnav

you’ve got two choices:

in your car? By adopting iECDIS™ early, you can get in front of the crowd and access all

Choice 1 - wait until the approach of the

the benefits immediately. If you’re worried

deadlines imposed by SOLAS ch V Reg. 19.

about capital cost don’t be, with iECDIS™ you

For your convenience we’ve published the

can uniquely lease the system as a service

table below so you can see at a glance the

from just US$ 299 / month.

latest compliance dates for your ships

ECDIS Implementation Schedule - July 2012 to July 2018 July 2012

Newbuild Passenger Ships >500 gt

July 2015

Existing Tankers >3,000 gt

July 2013

Newbuild Tankers >3,000 gt

July 2016

Existing Cargo Ships >50,000 gt

July 2014

Newbuild Cargo Ships >10,000 gt

Newbuild Cargo Ships >3,000 - 500 gt

July 2017

July 2018

Existing Cargo Ships >20,000 - 10,000 - 20,000 ECDIS/ECS systems worldwide Rugged, heavy duty military spec’ hardware – built to last on ships

iECDIS™ from US$ 299 per month

Fanless operation with no moving parts – ultimate stability, durability and lifetime

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