National system for Reporting

and Information in Iceland

Baldur Bjartmarsson

Director of Lighthouse and Management Div.

Icelandic Maritime Administration

Preface

MTS Reykjavik

Surveillance and reporting systems

IMA´s information system

Maritime Traffic Service, Reykjavik

• A law on establishing MTS was passed in 2002

• A contract was made in June 2004 with following organizations to run the MTS:

– Icelandic Coast Guard– Emergency Alert 112– Landsbjorg, Icelandic association for search and

rescue

• Icelandic Maritime Adm. monitors MTS on behalf of Ministry of Transport

• MTS commenced in August 2004

The launching and organization of MTS Reykjavik

Main functions of the MTS

Costal radio service Surveillance of marine traffic • Maritime Assistance Service• MRCC

• MTS Reykjavik is under supervision of the Icelandic coast guard

Maritime Traffic Service Reykjavik

Reporting and Surveillance systems

Reporting / Surveillance systems at the MTS

— Automatic surveillance system for fishing vessels

— Ship reporting system

— AIS ( in installation phase)

Automatic surveillance system for fishing vessels

• Automatic surveillance system for fishing vessels established in May 2000

• The main purpose of the system is safety monitoring

• Has a special distress signaling mechanism, which has the highest priority in the data transmission

• VHF based but can be accessed by Inmarsat

Automatic surveillance system for fishing vessels

• Vessels up to 24 m report every 15 minutes (1hr), vessels over 24 m report at 12 hr interval

• 24/365 surveilance at MTS Reykjavik

• Majority of all distress cases are solved through the system with the aid of vessels in the vicinity of distress

The system

• A shipborne VHF station with a distress button.

• 9 onshore base stations with fixed telephone lines and 28 repeaters, total of 37 shore-stations, most of them with standby spare stations for increased safety

• VHF Network Controller

• Communication Server

• Monitoring Console w. /specialized software

The users

• 1600 user equipments installed, 500 to 1000 in daily use

• 100 ships use INMARSAT- C

• 90 ships use INMARSAT- C through the Coastguard (NEAFC/NFO)

• New input can easily be added (e.g. AIS)

The TSS Boat Station, Base Station and Repeater Station

Graphical output that shows every vessel in the system – its position, speed and course

Ship reporting system

Ship reporting system

MTS has a mandatory ship reporting system runningReporting sheet, available at webside, covers:

• General information, name, owner, destination, ETA, bunker oil information, etc.

• Hazmat information

• ISPS information

– Ship carrying oil and hazmat report every 6 hrs inside IEEZ

AIS in Iceland

AIS – plan for Iceland

IMA´s information system on weather and seastate

IMA´s information system • Real-time information are updated every hour

• 9 offshore wave buoys owned by IMA• 15 automatic weather stations owned by IMA and

“IMO”• 14 automatic harbour stations with weather, tide and

wave gauges in harbours owned by harbours

• Wave and weather forecast received daily at 03:30 GMT via the Icelandic Meteorological Office from the ECMWF – European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in Reading UK

• Forecasting at 6 hrs intervals up to 6 days

• Numerical Tidal Simulation Model to compute tides, tidal currents and storm surge in North Atlantic for next two days

Access to enviromental data

• Access to real-time measurements opended:

– in 1996 to a automatic voice service.• up to 400 calls per day and 6500 calls per month

– in 1997 to IMA home page www.sigling.is • average of 8000 visits per month

– in 2002 to tide and storm surge forecast

– in 2004 wave height information on teletext (TV)

Wave forecast and measured waves

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Thank you for your attention !