It is proposed to add a new item on E-Navigation to the work
programme of the Sub-
Committee on Safety of Navigation (NAV)
and also to that on Radiocommunications and
Search and Rescue (COMSAR). The aim should be to develop a strategic vision for the
utilization of existing and new navigational tools, in particular
electronic tools, in a holistic and
systematic manner. E-Navigation would help reduce navigational accidents, errors
and
failures by developing standards for an accurate and cost effective
system that would make a
major contribution to the IMO‘s agenda of
”safe, secure and efficient shipping on clean
oceans‘.