Automatic identification system (Chapter 13, paragraph 13.12)
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Automatic identification system (Chapter 13, paragraph 13.12)

  1 Craft should be provided with an automatic identification system (AIS) as follows:

  • .1 in the case of passenger craft, no later than 1 July 2003;

  • .2 in the case of cargo craft of 3000 gross tonnage and upwards, no later than 1 July 2006;

  • .3 in the case of cargo craft of less than 3000 gross tonnage, no later than 1 July 2007.

  2 AIS should:

  • .1 provide automatically to appropriately equipped shore stations, other vessels and aircraft information, including the crafts identity, type, position, course, speed, navigational status and other safety-related information;

  • .2 receive automatically such information from similarly fitted vessels;

  • .3 monitor and track vessels; and

  • .4 exchange data with shore based facilities.

  3 The requirements of .2 should not apply where international agreements, rules or standards provide for the protection of navigational information.

  4 AIS should be operated taking into account the guidelines adopted by the Organization*.

  * Refer to Guidelines for the Onboard Operational Use of Shipborne Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) adopted by the Organization by resolution A.917(22)

 (2000 HSC Code, paragraph 13.15.2, as amended by resolution MSC.119(74))

Parent topic: Proposed Amendments to the DSC Code
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