Agenda Item 7 World-Wide Navigational Warning

IHO Strategic Plan – SPI for MSI Target: 3.1 Collaborate with other bodies who deliver capacity building and training to improve effectiveness of capacity building activities and programmes.
Measure:3.1.1 Percentage of Coastal States that are capable to provide marine safety information (MSI) according to the joint IMO/IHO/WMO manual on MSI (2026 - 90%)<br>

SPI - Navigation Warnings by year “On average, there were 41,548 [Inmarsat] messages per month, including repeated messages. The average messages per month increased by 7,648 compared to the last reporting period” (NCSR 9/10/3)<br>

SPI - MSI Support for 2021Derived from NAVAREA Self Assessments submitted to WWNWS13<br>

SPI - Coastal States by NAVAREA<br>

SPI - Coastal States by NAVAREA SPI = 62%<br>

Joint IMO/IHO/WMO Manual on MSI Last update 21 November 2014 – expect new version in force on 1 January 2024
This Manual provides a practical guide for anyone who is concerned with drafting navigational warnings or with the issuance of meteorological forecasts and warnings under the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)
20th Document Review Working Group Meetings (Virtual)
10 February (WWMIWS), 15-17 February, 21-24 March
Focused on paragraph 4.2.3 (NAVAREA warning subjects) and section 7 (Guidance and Examples for Navigational Warnings by Type of Hazard). 
Referenced the S-124 soft mapping with an aim to transition the navigational warning examples to align with it to the greatest extent practicable.<br>

IMO RESOLUTION MSC.305(87)(adopted on 17 May 2010) Guidelines on operational procedures for the promulgation of maritime safety information concerning acts of piracy and piracy counter-measure operations
Procedures to provide specific additional guidance for naval and military authorities involved in the gathering and interpretation of information on acts of piracy
Security of Navigation Stabilisation, Advice and Training (SONSAT) component (Action from WWNWS13)
reviewed and determined that the current threat of piracy, the security measures in place, and the reduction of the High Risk Area on 1 September 2021 (1-sep-2021-hra-revision.pdf (http://maritimeglobalsecurity.org) would support the cancellation of the resolution without replacement.
DRWG20 reviewed and will recommend cancellation at WWNWS14<br>

Iridium SafetyCast Implementation At the 105th session of the IMO Maritime Safety Committee (MSC 105),the Committee agreed that the use of all IMO RMSSs should be mandatory.
This means that MSI providers (MSIP) and SAR information providers cannot choose with which services they conclude agreements. Agreements need to be made with all services covering their area of operational responsibility
Iridium noted that it had deferred charging for MSI for the last two years and, as a temporary measure, Iridium offered to continue to defer charging to Member States that had informed IMO about having financial difficulties with the implementation. 
Iridium confirmed that this temporary initiative would continue until the cost issue was resolved and Member States agreed to more permanent solutions.<br>

Iridium SafetyCast Implementation NAVAREAS METAREAS<br>

MSI Capacity Building Last course:JakartaSeptember 2019
Next Course:Colombia26-30 September 2022<br>

S-124 Update The S-124PT aims at having a candidate version ready for Edition 1.0.0 endorsement by the WWNWS in September, and a subsequent submission to HSSC for approval to go to Edition 1.0.0.
Work is being planned for a review of the draft S-124 Technical Service Specification that describes how machine to machine interaction works for a S-124 service.
Secure exchange and communication of S-100 based products (SECOM)
Maritime vs Commercial communications systems for e-navigation
Maritime: AIS, ASM, VDE-TER, SAT, NAVDAT – Low data rate (Push)
Commercial: Wifi, 4g/5g, LEO, MEO, GEO – High data rate (Pull)<br>

S-124 Update: Maritime vs Commercial comms “The level of complementarity between the two could not be better. Leverage both.” The level of complementarity of the two categories could not be better. Shore authorities should use both
Two upcoming technologies to watch for:
Satellite Low Earth Orbitconstellations
Maritime ConnectivityPlatform (MCP)<br>

S-124 Update: Maritime vs Commercial comms “The level of complementarity between the two could not be better. Leverage both.”<br>

Capacity Building Strategy 2021 Technology continues to develop rapidly in all fields, including hydrography. The IHO must be cognizant of the speed of these changes and be agile enough adjust to the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities that are present in the capacity building environment. The opportunities include the deployment of e-learning, augmented reality, and other learning and teaching techniques to reach larger and more diverse audiences
Challenges include the need for rapid curriculum updating to keep up with technology changes to ensure that the skills taught by programmes today will be relevant in the future. Specifically, hydrographic personnel must be well equipped to work in the realm of S-100…<br>

Capacity Building Strategy 2021 “The focus should be on achieving enduring output which will benefit safe navigation…”
New capacity building objective created: Level 0<br>

C-55 and MSI – How/Where to capture this data The purpose of IHO C-55 Publication "Status of Hydrographic Surveying and Charting Worldwide" is to provide base data for governments and supporting international organizations as they consider the best means by which to implement responsibilities set out in Chapter V, Regulation 9, of the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention. It also informs IHO input to the United Nations Global Maritime Assessment. The “C” in the name of this publication stands for “Capacity Building”.
The significance of hydrographic efforts to ensure the safe use of the sea, national economic prosperity, and protection of the marine environment is elaborated in IHO Publication M-2. That publication identifies three core capabilities, the status of which is assessed in the three sections of the C-55 data-base:
1. Hydrographic Surveying.
2. Nautical Charting.
3. Provision of Maritime Safety Information (MSI).<br>

C-55 and MSI – How/Where to capture this data Currently the IHO only reports MSI per coastal state (YES/NO) and what government agency has the responsibility for collection and distribution of of it.
The WWNWS maintains far more accurate and regularly updated information on relevant persons of contact with contact details for each.<br>

C-55 and MSI – How/Where to capture this data Proposal: Instead of C-55 trying to maintain an annually updated overview with input from individual country states on MSI, the WWNWS could have an overview/list of coastal states with at least three columns showing:
Does the State meet MSI provision requirments (iaw SOLAS and the IHO SPI)
Does the State do that by themselves or through 3rd parties / Primary Charting Authorities.
Relevant POC and contact details for MSI of each coastal state.
Optional: Date completed MSI Capacity Building Course
Data centric—reduce or eliminate duplicate and triplicate innaccureate representations<br>

Actions requested of the IRCC Note the information provided in this report on the outcomes of WWNWS13;
Encourage relevant Member States to report to the IMO Secretariat and the Chair of the EGC Coordinating Panel on the progress and status of implementation of newly recognized mobile satellite services by MSI providers;
Note that MSI providers, should they implement Iridium SafetyCast services, are compelled to bear the burden of all additional costs, as a consequence of the approval by IMO Member States of the Iridium SafetyCast as a RMSS; and
Take any other action it considers appropriate.<br>