5th WENDWG meeting, Singapore

James Harper, IC-ENC Manager, and Mathias Jonas, IC-ENC Chairman both attended the 5th IHO WENDWG meeting, which was held in Singapore from 3rd-5th March.

​The WENDWG (Worldwide ENC Database Working Group) is an IHO group, and subsidiary of the Inter Regional Coordination Committee (IRCC) which is responsible for advising the IRCC on the development and monitoring of the principles, guidelines and governance surrounding the WEND. As a result, the WENDWG aims to facilitate a worldwide consistent level of high quality, updated official ENCs through integrated services that support SOLAS carriage requirements and the IMO Performance Standards for ECDIS.

At the meeting, IC-ENC presented a RENC progress report, based on the 2014 Annual Report, which was well received by the group, and as a result sparked some good discussions. The main topics of discussions included the problems and solutions to overlapping ENCs, and the method of assessing progress on delivering adequate ENC coverage to support the mandation of ECDIS, the IHO ENC catalogue, and the S-101 future standard.

As a direct result of this meeting, IC-ENC will be collaborating with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) in order to investigate the effects of overlapping ENCs on various types of ECDIS, including both behaviour and display of data.

If you have not yet had the opportunity to view the IC-ENC 2014 Annual Report, you can access it by clicking here​.


​Attendees of the 5th WENDWG Meeting, March 2015​​


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