Nautical charts show all the features necessary for your safe navigation from here to there. To get that information, however, you must know how to read a chart. Several outstanding boating safety ...

Sea ice retreat is creating new economic opportunities for shipping, but exposes a critical safety deficit. Rooted in ...

In November 2019, the Office of Coast Survey (OCS), part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), announced the start of a five-year program to “sunset” all raster and paper ...

There’s an old saying you used to hear that states: “It’s not where you’re going, it’s how you get there.” With the speed and accuracy of today’s chart plotters, it seems like the “how” part of ...

Ships and other marine vessels measure their speed in knots instead of miles per hour, and the practice goes back to the ...

Road atlases are still published, but you wouldn’t know it if you have a smartphone and Google Maps. Most pilots who got their license a decade ago started on paper maps, but the iPad rules the ...

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (“K” LINE) has chosen Navtor’s NavFleet solution to support its 24/7 global fleet monitoring and support system.Once operational, the facility will help the Japanese maritime ...

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