IMO's Sub-committee on Safety of Navigation, Communication, Search and Rescue held its first session in London between 30.06 - 4.07.2014. The new sub-committee is a merger of the NAV Sub-committee on Safety of Navigation and the COMSAR Sub-committee on Communication and Search and Rescue.
The session was attended by the following delegates from Poland, all representatives of the Faculty of Navigation: Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, PhD, an associate professor at the Maritime University of Szczecin and Pawel Zalewski, PhD.
The session was focused on, inter alia, search and rescue at sea, navigation routes, e-navigation and communication systems.
One of the documents adopted during the session is a report by the Correspondence Group on e-Navigation, whose work was aided also by Polish representatives, on “Implementation plan of e-navigation strategy”. The document outlines 5 most important roles of e-navigation. It also emphasises the significance of developing new functionalities in contemporary as well as in future systems, including navigation decision-support systems.
