WEND 9 Report of the WEND Task Group

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WEND 9Report of the WEND Task Group
WEND9-4A rev2

• 7-8 April 2005, Monaco

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The WEND TG Mission

• WEND TG was established in 2003 at WEND 7 in
  Lima, Peru
• Its tasks
• To evaluate the situation within regions
• To develop detailed proposals and work programmes
• Advise Regional Commissions through IHB
• The work has to be accomplished by MS in the
  regions!
• Quote from the initial presentation
• Make WEND happen!

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SWAT Weaknesses, ....

• Too little data coverage
• Often non-existent, at best regionally developed
  cooperation between HOs
• inconsistent data
• separately operated security systems
• differing data quality
• data sometimes only available locally
• Private companies one type of uniform quality,
  one-stop shopping globally
• IHO at a serious competitive disadvantage
• low acceptance of ENCs on the market

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SWAT ... and Threats

• ENCs may become irrelevant to the market
• IMO may conclude to allow also private ECS data
  to satisfy SOLAS carriage requirements, in order
  to save ECDIS
• HOs role may become downgraded to provide source
  information to private industry, industry to
  develop the products
• With dwindling importance of paper charts, IHO
  may become obsolete
• HOs ultimately be left without control of any
  standards relevant to their business

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Perception by Customers

• The 2003 ECDIS Conference,
• The HAILWOOD Report 2005
• Strong support from mariners and shipping
  companies for the concept of ECDIS, but
  frustration at the slow rate of progress
• Main concerns data coverage, data consistency,
  carriage requirements, distribution, catalogue,
  choice, flexibility, value for money and training

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VISION

• The mariners can obtain anywhere in the world
  for all shipping routes and ports in the world
  ENCs
• at uniform quality, satisfying all requirements
  of the ECDIS performance standards and the ENC
  product specifications,
• performing with a uniform and seamless data
  display irrespective of originating HO,
• with complete route coverage,
• all data within route coverage under a single
  security mechanism (IHO compliant for encrypted
  ENC distribution, or proprietary for SENC
  distribution),
• with the option for the customer to choose from
  various competing services offering added value,
• from a one-stop shop.

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What is to be done? - Proposal!

• Improve coverage
• programme for small scale ENCs (just as for the
  INT charting programme)
• New WEND rule, small scale ENC scheme, work
  programme (MS, Regional Commissions) ?
• prioritized route coverage
• Work programme (Regional Commissions) ?
• Capacity building assistance and training
  programmes
• Evaluate responses to IHO CL 67/2002, and propose
  and initiate action (IHB, RCs, bilaterally) ?

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What is to be done? - Proposal!

• Ensure data quality inter-agency data
  validation, development of common quality
  assurance procedures
• Member States to establish multilateral regional
  co-operation (RENC, VRENC), or co-operate with a
  RENC (RCs) ?
• advise MS of existing instruments (IHB, RCs) ?
• Improve availability make data available
  worldwide
• Member States to co-operate with a RENC as
  Facilitators for worldwide distribution
  (RCs) ?
• Improve user-friendliness facilitate one-stop
  shopping
• New WEND principle (IHO MS) ?

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What has been achieved?

• RHCs have developed, or are developing
  small-scale ENC schemes
• ENC production has progressed considerably
• Quality problems have been addressed within
  existing RENCs and by TSMAD
• Cooperation between RENCs is improving
• Existing RENCs have attracted additional members
• ENC sales have more than quadrupled regionally
  since 2003
• .... But from a very low level!
• However........

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Some forthcoming challenges and threats

• Moves to mandate the use of ECDIS
• National Initiatives USA, Norway
• IMO Proposals for NAV51
• New build High Speed Craft from 1 July 2008
• All vessels by 2012
• How will IHO manage to satisfy data
  requirements??
• Rising discontent of professional shipping
  organisations with availability, quality and
  services of official ENCs
• How will IMO react?
• Pressure to legalise non-official data?
• Drive IHO out of its responsibility?

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The basic problems remain unchanged

• Global ENC coverage still far away
• Still no global one-stop shop available
• services
• at no uniform data quality
• have complex service characteristics and cost
  structures
• under separately operated security systems
• some data not, or only locally available to
  mariners
• WEND principles amended, but not adhered to

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Key problems

• No ECDIS can.....
• work without data
• remain an ECDIS while on non-official data
• function properly on dialects of official data
• In other words, on a global scale, IHO, as an
  organisation .....
• has not yet come to grips with the elementary
  prerequisites and requirements of a global
  digital data service
• has not solved the ECDIS issue yet
• WEND was conceived as a solution, but hasnt
  worked, because ...
• there is no enforcement to remedy the prinicipal
  problems
• no master plan for a backup solution

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Proposals

• Amend the WEND principles, defining them as a
  list of minimum requirements MS have to satisfy
  in the digital world
• Develop a master plan to backup WEND where it
  cannot yet work according to its original concept
• as interim solution(s)
• backup solution(s) to fill the existing gaps in
  data coverage
• e.g. an HO is to choose a temporary partner for
  producing its ENCs (also assistant to get
  started)
• enforce distribution of ENCs through a network of
  mutually cooperating validation and quality
  assurance centres
• Set a concrete deadline for availability of ENCs

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Conclusions

• WEND TG supports the amended WEND principles as
  proposed by UK
• WEND to agree on the amended principles
• WEND to agree on deadlines for HOs concerned
• to choose interim production partners
• to work through one of the RENCs for quality
  assurance
• IHO to adopt the WEND decisions
• WEND TG to monitor implementation and
  development through IHB and Regional Commissions