NEW PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE

The IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee at its 86th session from May 26 to June 5, 2009 approved new regulations, on which is written that all merchant ships engaged on international voyages are obliged to be fitted with ECDIS(Electronic Chart Display and Information System) schedulely to the middle of year 2018 as the main means for navigation for working with maritime Electronic Navigational Charts (ENC). Therefore United Kingdom Hydrographic Office issued new Admiralty publications, related to implementation, operation and service of ECDIS, and to content, used symbolic and way for making corrections of Electronic Navigational Charts. The Hydrographic Office also made important changes in the content of some existing publications, which deserve to be discussed in this article. After 2012 the exterior design of all Admiralty maritime publications has been changed. This fact shows clearly that comes one new stage in the publication activity of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office.