Primar Stavangar currently delivers more than 15,000 ENCs from 11 nations.

Feedback from shipping companies and users has revealed confusion over the regulations governing use of official ENCs and ECDIS. This has resulted in the continued use of private electronic charts by vessel operators who should instead be moving to official ENCs from national hydrographic offices.

The Primar Stavangar collection of regulations in this area is presented in the form of an article, which currently contains the relevant SOLAS provisions as well as flag state requirements for using ENCs with ECDIS. In addition to extensive quotations from the appropriate passages in these regulations, each section presents a summary of the official rules, making it easy for vessel operators to determine what they have to observe.

MJ Information No: 19510