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Navigates the vessel on voyage plan and/ or instructions of the master in charge (Source: Platina 2009)
The use of the Inland ECDIS for conning the vessel with overlaid radar image (Source: Standard Inland ECDIS CCR version 2.0/2006)
A service to assist on-board navigational decision-making and to monitor its effect. Navigational assistance is especially of importance in reduced visibility, or difficult meteorological circumstances or in case of defects or deficiencies affecting the radar, steering or propulsion. Navigational assistance is given in due form of position at the request of the traffic participant or in special circumstances when deemed necessary by the VTS operator, using technologies such as GNSS/Galileo (Source: RIS-Guidelines 2007/414/EC)
Provided information to the skipper on board to support in on-board decision-making (Source:Standard Tracking and Tracing)