NOAA to cease production of paper nautical charts

Capt. John

The US NOAA announced it is undertaking a five-year program to end all raster and paper nautical chart production. Ultimately, production of all NOAA paper nautical charts, raster navigational charts (NOAA RNC), and related products, such as BookletChartsTM will cease.

This comes as the IMO now mandates that all large commercial vessels on international voyages use electronic navigational charts (ENCs). In 2016, the USCG started allowing regulated commercial vessels on domestic voyages to use...

https://safety4sea.com/noaa-to-cease-production-of-paper-nautical-charts/

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