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Providing valuable information to help improve situational awareness, the Admiralty range of products and services is second-to-none in helping you plan your voyage.

Comprising routeing guides and charts, tidal tables, sailing directions and more, these products enhance on-board knowledge of route features and sea conditions. Whatever the destination, they are designed to inform key decisions around commercial efficiency and vessel security, helping you plan safe and successful voyages.

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Planning

e-Navigator

Admiralty e-Navigator
 

Delivering real efficiencies by cutting the complexities of voyage planning, and optimising voyage and port turnaround times

 

 

Admiralty Information Overlay

Admiralty Information Overlay
 

Additional navigationally significant information that further supports safety and compliance

 

 

Planning and thematic charts

Admiralty planning and thematic charts
 

Plan passages with greater confidence and ease through the world’s most challenging shipping areas

 

A computer-based maritime intelligence system bringing together the information you need for safe navigation, voyage planning and efficient fleet management.

 

e-Navigator

 

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"We have used e-Navigator and have found it to be an outstanding tool.

It is so easy to plan the voyages, and ordering the ENC cells we need has worked perfectly,"

Captain Kenth Lyktberg - MV Amorina
Laurin Maritime


Your all-in-one management system

With Admiralty e-Navigator, managing paper and digital charts and publications is incredibly straightforward – which helps make life at sea safer and easier.

This powerful, easy-to-use application enables you to order, organise and update navigation products.

It also supports efficient passage planning, with additional functionality coming soon. What's more, the standard e-Navigator is available free of charge.

Stay up-to-date, the easy way

Make sure you always have the most up-to-date, official information on-board with e-Navigator. Alerts help you identify the navigational information and updates you need to stay compliant, which you can then order direct through the system.

In fact, you can download new electronic charts and updates whenever and wherever you need them – at any connected location around the world. e-Navigator - putting the world of maritime intelligence at your fingertips.


Admiralty makes:

Navigation and fleet management smarter, simpler, safer

Admiralty provides:

More efficient folio management


e-Navigator comprises two main applications:

Planning Station – a back-of-bridge software application designed to be used by the onboard navigation team to help voyage planning, holdings management and PSC compliance.

Fleet Manager – a web-based application used on shore by shipping companies, Admiralty chart agents and distributors; enables you to manage and view the status of navigational products and services being used on ships a cross the fleet.

Key functions that can help reduce the administrative burden:

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  1. Holdings Management system – allows bridge crews to track the status of all shipboard Admiralty charts and publications (paper and digital) in one place. This means you can quickly determine the status of your charts and publications, identify those requiring action and update/renew accordingly.

  2. Admiralty Catalogue – allows you to identify and purchase the best mix of charts and publications to help you navigate a plotted route safely, compliantly and cost-effectively. Permits and information for digital charts are received onboard almost instantaneously, enabling you to purchase the charts at the time you need them.

  3. Provides the perfect platform from which to view digital chart services, Admiralty Information Overlay, and digital publications such as Admiralty TotalTide, List of Lights and List of Radio Signals (Volume 6).

In addition, e-Navigator supports a growing range of products, which will soon be coming on-stream, designed to improve planning and fleet management.


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Benefit from a clear, easy and consistent view of additional information that helps you navigate safely and compliantly.

Clearly showing where ENCs and paper charts differ, and where important Temporary or Preliminary changes may impact a voyage, the Information Overlay makes passage planning simpler and safer.

Admiralty Information Overlay   

Admiralty Information Overlay

 

An overview of the Admiralty Vector Chart Service including a look at the Admiralty Information Overlay feature

 



"We use Admiralty Information Overlay as an integral element of our ECDIS-based navigation. The Information Overlay is making passage planning and the task of keeping track of the latest ENC updates much easier and it will also help our crews to demonstrate compliance during PSC inspections.

"Overall, it has proved to be another important element in our efforts to continually improve the safety and efficiency of navigation."

Soren Andersen, Marine Superintendent, SQE at Nordic Tankers Marine A/S


Identifying navigationally significant differences

The only service to include the results of the UKHO's comprehensive reviews of the world's ENCs, the Information Overlay helps to identify and resolve navigationally significant differences from Admiralty paper charts.

All significant differences are investigated and appropriate chart action is agreed with the Hydrographic Office that produced the affected ENC. And when we cannot get immediate clarification when jointly investigating hydrographic queries in this way, we publish any unresolved differences as 'ENC Preliminary' NMs.

It was to give mariners information about potential charting issues during this investigation period that we created the Information Overlay.



Supporting ECDIS and ENC compliance

The Information Overlay is the only digital service to include worldwide Admiralty Temporary and Preliminary Notices to Mariners (T&P NMs).

These are now included in the ENCs produced by over 60% of Hydrographic Offices worldwide. There still remain significant areas where T&P NMs are not yet included, however, and these can mean significant problems for ECDIS users.

Increasingly mariners are being asked in Port State Control (PSC) inspections to show how they manage T&P NM information. Usually the navigator maintains a folder of paper T&P NMs and manually plots positions in the ECDIS. This manual process increases the risk of plotting errors. What's more, the T&P NM information is sometimes even ignored – risking a non-conformity. It's to help solve this problem that the Information Overlay also includes all Admiralty T&P NMs.

Ships using Admiralty Information Overlay will also find it easier to comply with PSC requirements by providing T&P NMs where they do not currently exist in ENC coverage.

Even where T&P NMs are included in ENCs, they can be hard to identify; the Information Overlay addresses the problem by highlighting those areas where navigators need to exercise additional caution.

Easy to use, clearly displayed

The Information Overlay gives you a clear, easy and consistent way to view additional, valuable navigationally significant information. By clearly showing where important Temporary or Preliminary changes may impact on your voyage, it helps make passage planning simpler and safer.

The Overlay is displayed as a single layer on top of the ENC. When used with a compatible ECDIS, it gives you the same consistent picture of the maritime environment on your ECDIS as you've always had with Admiralty paper charts.

Bridge system compatibility

You can easily access the Information Overlay using Admiralty e-Navigator Planning Station, our navigation information, products and services management software, as well as a rapidly growing number of ECDIS.

The Information Overlay has been developed to support Admiralty Vector Chart Service - the most comprehensive ENC service available.

What's more, it's supplied to all Admiralty Vector Chart Service customers at no additional charge.


Admiralty provides:

The most comprehensive and
up-to-date information

Admiralty prioritises:

Safety first at all times

Admiralty has:

People committed to quality and accuracy


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Unlock the world's most challenging shipping areas for effective passage planning.

 

Planning and thematic charts

 

Make informed, safety-critical decisions when planning your commercial voyage with Admiralty Planning and Thematic charts. Providing additional, specialist information to help you progress your voyage safely and efficiently through some of the world's most challenging shipping areas, this world-class series is designed to be used alongside nautical charts and publications.

Valuable aids to voyage planning, Admiralty Planning and Thematic charts enhance on-board knowledge of route features and sea conditions aiding decision making for the best routes in any situation. They provide guidance on cargo-loading for safe, compliant carriage and inform key decisions around commercial efficiency and ship security. Whatever your destination, these charts support traditional navigation methods – helping you plan your passage with confidence and ease.


Voyage planning charts

Enabling you to write intelligent and effective berth-to-berth passage plans, these charts are the main planning tools of the range. They reference key facts, recommendations and regulations providing specialist information on environmental factors, traffic schemes and hazards adding clarity to your planning.

Voyage planning support charts

Charts designed to support the overall planning process. They provide important information to support your voyage planning.


Mariners' Routeing Guides

Covering potential bottlenecks, these guides give quick and succinct area overviews to improve your situational awareness. They contain guidance and easy reference to vital information for passage planning, highlighting recommendations and hazards and presenting visual details of traffic separation schemes and routeing measures in the world's busiest and most complex shipping areas. The expanding range already covers the English Channel and Dover Strait, Baltic Sea, Gulf of Suez, and Malacca and Singapore Straits.

Maritime Security and Anti-Piracy Charts

In the event of a piracy incident, these charts show you who to contact, where to report and how to remain safe. Adding an additional layer of security to your planning, they are designed to keep your crew and cargo safe. Although these charts are not mandatory, and each port-state will have different interpretations about procedures that need to be followed, they do equip you with vital piracy response mechanisms and knowledge.

Load Line Regulations

The Load Line Regulations Chart displays the latest load line regulation zones and seasonal periods as a World chart that assists mariners to plan safe and legal draught throughout their voyage. The current edition reflects the changes made in the 1998 Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Regulations, which shows mariners the draught to which vessels subject to SOLAS regulations can be loaded in designated zones around the world.

Ocean Routeing Charts

Valuable aids to ocean voyage planning – these charts include shipping routes and distances between major ports and for each month of the year on 12 separate charts: ocean currents, wind roses, ice limits, load lines, plus expected meteorological and oceanographic conditions. Five sets of charts cover the oceans of the world, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, North Pacific, South Pacific and the Indian Ocean, and include crucial information on seasonal variations.

Planning Charts

Designed to assist the voyage planning process these charts are a range of very small-scale charts covering oceanic regions and at the smallest scale - The World. They show significant ports throughout the regions and offer a high level overview of whole oceans.

World Time Zone Chart

An easy reference tool relating local arrival and departure times to the standard Greenwich Mean Time, the World Time Zone Chart is devised to give mariners, in any part of the world, planning support across different time zones. The most recent edition of this chart depicts the course of the International Date Line.

Co-tidal Charts

Co-tidal and Co-range charts are primarily used to predict offshore tidal conditions, providing crucial tidal snapshots to assist passage planning. Used where the effect of tidal streams forms a significant part of a passage they provide an aid to working out the speed of travel required in order to reach significant controlled depths at the right time.

Gnomonic Charts

Used in passage planning to plot great circle routes as a straight line, Gnomonic Charts are useful for devising composite rhumb line courses. Fifteen charts cover the world, to facilitate great circle sailing and should be used in conjunction with navigational charts.

Meteorological Charts and Diagrams

Compile a picture of oceanic conditions in specific areas with this series of 27 meteorological working charts – another useful tool to support your passage planning, particularly in upfront planning for ocean voyages.


Admiralty means:

A powerful aid to planning

Admiralty means:

Dependable detail for key routes


Radio Signals

Radio signals
 

Comply with reporting regulations with a complete guide of essential, worldwide maritime communications information

 

Tidal publications

Tide publications
 

Make the tides work in your favour - take advantage of the tides worldwide with easy-to-use height, timing and tidal stream information

 

List of Lights

List of lights
 

Have up-to-date knowledge of light and fog signal information around the world - choose the de-facto standard

 

Essential for navigation and operations of the ship - get fast access to the easily referenced Radio Signals; providing all the information necessary for managing communications throughout the voyage.

 

Radio Signals

 

An overview of Admiralty Digital Publications including a look at Admiralty Digital Radio Signals Vol 6

 



"The geographic interface and flexible search tools offered by Admiralty Digital Publications make it quick and easy to find the information you need, and explain why applications like Admiralty Digital Radio Signals Volume 6 are used so widely by mariners during passage planning."

Pete Hatton - Product Manager
Admiralty Digital Publications


Worldwide information at your fingertips

  • Radio Signals comprises six convenient volumes to make it easier to access the information you need
  • Volume 6 ‘Pilot Services, Vessel Traffic Services and Port Operations’ also now available in convenient digital format – saving you time by receiving weekly updates via the web, e-mail or CD, and are applied accurately in just a few moments
  • The digital format of Volume 6 enables easier searching via the geographic window, using hyperlinks, or by position

Easy access content in six-volume series

Six volumes of Admiralty List of Radio Signals provide the following, accessible information:

  1. Maritime Radio Stations (Parts 1 & 2)
  2. Radio Aids to Navigation, Satellite Navigation Systems, Differential GPS (DGPS) Legal Time, Radio Time Signals and Electronic Position Fixing Systems
  3. Maritime Safety Information Services (Parts 1 & 2)
  4. Meteorological Observation Stations
  5. Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)
  6. Pilot Services, Vessel Traffic Services and Port Operations (Parts 1-7)

Admiralty means:

Compliance with worldwide reporting regulations

Admiralty means:

Your total reference for maritime radio communications


Calculate safe clearance, make departure and arrival time planning easier, and use the tides to your advantage with the world-leading tidal references. The tidal predictions provide accurate, safe and intuitive predictions of tidal height and tide stream activity, around the world.

 

Tidal publications

 

An overview of Admiralty Digital Publications including a look at Admiralty TotalTide

 



"Its superior functionality, not to mention its ability to generate tidal height and tidal stream predictions around the world, makes Admiralty TotalTide so much more than just a digital version of the paper tide tables."

Pete Hatton - Product Manager
Admiralty Digital Publications


Tide Tables

first published in 1833, features comprehensive worldwide tidal height and time information. Revised annually for greater accuracy to assist and simplify the planning departure and arrival times.


Tidal stream atlases

ensures you’re fully informed of your options for routeing and manoeuvre – including detailed tidal stream direction and strength information for all key North West Europe locations.

TotalTide

provides intelligent decision support - giving an even greater degree of confidence. It brings global tidal tables and stream data conveniently together, complete with instant calculation.

The computer-based tidal prediction program is designed to help:

  • Take full advantage of favourable tides
  • Make more informed, timely decisions on commercial and safety issues
  • Provide greater confidence and reduce human error
  • Meet all SOLAS carriage requirements for height, time and tidal streams worldwide
  • Calculate tidal predictions for future and past dates instantly
  • Provide accurate predictions for tidal heights and streams within seconds
  • Display results in easy to use graphical forms
 

Admiralty helps you:

Take advantage of the tide

Admiralty offers:

Accurate, detailed tidal information: paper and digital


List of Lights contains comprehensive, constantly updated, detailed coverage of over 70,000 individual structures worldwide.

 

List of Lights

 

An overview of Admiralty Digital Publications including a look at Admiralty List of Lights

 



"The added convenience of automatic updating offered by applications like Admiralty Digital List of Lights, means that Admiralty Digital Publications have become firm favourites with mariners, and are valued tools on board thousands of ships worldwide."

Pete Hatton - Product Manager
Admiralty Digital Publications


Paper edition

includes extensive detail on all lighthouses, lightships, lit floating marks, fog signals and other lights of navigational significance:

  • Available in 12 volumes
  • Fully meets SOLAS requirements
  • Important light changes included in weekly Notices to Mariners
  • Frequently revised information that often runs ahead of the chart update cycle

Digital edition

offers all the detail that’s made the original paper edition so respected – plus the added convenience of fast, automatic updating:

  • Important light changes instantly updated via weekly Notices to Mariners
  • Widely accepted as meeting SOLAS carriage compliance
  • Frequent revisions often ahead of the chart update cycle
 

Admiralty provides:

Details of over 70,000 light structures worldwide

Admiralty ensures:

Fast updates on a rolling programme


Sailing Directions

Sailing Directions
 

Make the best decisions possible for port entry and coastal navigation with valuable extra information and guidance – written ‘by mariners, for mariners’

 

Have greater confidence during port entry and coastal navigation with help from Admiralty Sailing Directions.

 

Sailing Directions

 

Complementing Admiralty charts, worldwide

This series gives additional information and guidance to our world-class charts. Written and regularly revised by master mariners to include the most up-to-date conditions, helping fellow mariners make the best decisions possible.

  • Offers mariners a clearer picture through comprehensive coverage of cautions, landmarks, hazards, buoyage, climate and national shipping regulations
  • Trusted worldwide for over 100 years

Navigate with greater confidence

Using Admiralty Sailing Directions is easy thanks to a clear presentation style, colour photography and views.

  • Locate the information you want quickly in any volume – standardised layouts across the series ensure fast, effortless referencing
  • Know you’re using the latest information – Sailing Directions are subject to weekly updates via Notices to Mariners

Admiralty means:

Use just the coverage you need from the 74-volume series

Admiralty means:

First choice for mariners worldwide


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