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Passage Plan Appraisal
Passage Plan Appraisal
But that is not the real issue. The real issue is that there isn’t enough
guidance on using these resources and information.
In this article, I will discuss about the initial stage of the passage
planning which is Appraisal which is related to collecting the required
information for passage planning.
Appraisal
Planning
Executive
Monitoring
The first step for planning passage is to gather all the required
information for the voyage.
Are there any areas along the passage that need to be avoided?
Are there any deep water routes that we can and cannot use?
Once we have all this information, we can easily plan our passage.
Of course there are tons of resources but we must know the flow of
looking for these informations.
That would save us a lot of time.
If not, you may have to find an intermediate port between your voyage
to get the route from the “Ocean passages of the world”.
As you can see this has given us a sense of direction which is to pass
through the “one and half degree channel”.
There are even diagrams for better representation of the route to
follow for different ocean voyage. Below is the one for Singapore->
Mombasa voyage.
2. Ship’s Routeing
So under each part we need to find if there is any information for our
route.
And then we can see some more information on the rules to follow
in Malacca strait and mandatory reporting in Part F and part G
respectively.
The idea is to collect all the information available and use it for
planning the passage.
To plan the passage we must have the required paper charts or ENCs.
From menu, just go to “Routes and passage” option and enter the from
and to ports.
This will give the information on the required charts and also the
charts that are no in your folio.
But if your company is still in anciet world where there is no such
software available, you need to do get your hands on “Chart
Catalogue”.
The best approach in this case is to first get the planning chart or a
smallest scale chart that will have both the port areas in it.
In the small scale sections of the chart catalogue for this area, with
these courses we can get the chart numbers that are applicable for this
route.
Again, note down the applicable information and sections from this
sailing direction.
ALRS Volume 2 (NP 282): Radio Aids to Navigation, DGPS, Legal time,
Radio time signals and electronic position fixing systems
For example ALRS Volume 3, we would get the details of the NAVTEX,
stations as well as the details of Navarea coordinator. This along with
the times for broadcasting the navarea warnings.
But one information that is important for the voyage planning is the
information on the reporting requirements.
If using digital ALRS volume 6, once you open it, you would see all the
areas listed on the left side along with a map in the center.
The blue dots on the map are all the information about reporting
requirements in that area or port.
Double click on the for the port of your voyage or any area that you
are passing and it will give you the information on reporting
requirements.
For our voyage apart from the port arrival reportings for Singapore and
Mombasa, the reportings for Malacca strait will be applicable.
6. Guide to port entry
What remains is the extensive information about the port and the
terminal vessel is calling.
Just go to the country section and look for the port the vessel is
calling.
If the vessel is provided with digital port guide such as IHS port &
terminal guide“, the job becomes even simpler.
We just need to search with the port name and information about that
port will be displayed.
Reporting to Hull insurance for passing through the high risk areas
such as Gulf of Aden
8. Other publications
Now there are many other publications and resources the information
of which may only be needed at later stages.
Mariner’s handbook
Conclusion
Collecting the data for use in passage planning is the most important
aspect of the passage planning.
Not only that but he/She also need to aware of what information is
contained in these resources and how to use these.