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UKHO-JHA Accord
The UK Hydrographic Office has signed a collaboration agreement with the Japanese Hydrographic Association under which Admiralty customers will now have access to over 600 new electronic navigational charts of Japanese waters as well as the Malacca Strait.
This year’s celebrations will be led by the inter-governmental International Hydrographic Organisation with a day of celebrations at its Monaco headquarters attended by Prince Albert II along with representatives of government and diplomatic missions. The main theme of proceedings is 85 Years of the IHO Contributing to Worldwide Safety to Navigation. The Organisation will assume responsibility for nominating themes for all subsequent annual days and advise national hydrographic offices and others accordingly.
Following similar distribution arrangements with several other Far East nations, this latest deal will bring the UKHO a major step closer to providing its customers with a single source for all their official ENC needs, said product manager Andy Criddle.
The new ENCs supplied by the JHA provide comprehensive coverage of Japanese waters at Overview, General, Coastal, Approach and Harbour scales including the key ports of Kobe, Nagoya and Tokyo. In addition, those for the busy and important Malacca Strait, reputed to carry approximately 60,000 vessels a year between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, are provided via the same agreement.
