MANUAL FOR USE BY THE MARITIME MOBILE AND MARITIME MOBILE SATELLITE SERVICES VOL 1

edition OF 2013 I n t e r n a t i o n a l Te l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n U n i o n Manual for use by the Maritime Mobile and International Telecommunication Union Sales and Marketing Division Place des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 20 Switzerland sales@itu.int www.itu.int/publications *38428* Printed in Switzerland Geneva, 2013 ISBN 978-92-61-14341-1 Photo credits: Shutterstock, ITU/K Bogens © Manual for use by the Maritime Mobile and Maritime Mobile-Satellite Services Maritime Mobile-Satellite Services Edition of 2013 Radiocommunication Bureau Provisions of the Telecommunication Services applicable or useful to stations in the Maritime Mobile and Maritime Mobile‑Satellite Services Volume I n t e r n a t i o n a l T e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n U n i o n Manual for use by the Maritime Mobile and Maritime Mobile-Satellite Services Volume ENGLISH EDITION 2013 Radiocommunication Bureau THE RADIOCOMMUNICATION SECTOR OF ITU The role of the Radiocommunication Sector is to ensure the rational, equitable, efficient and economical use of the radio-frequency spectrum by all radiocommunication services, including satellite services, and carry out studies without limit of frequency range on the basis of which Recommendations are adopted The regulatory and policy functions of the Radiocommunication Sector are performed by World and Regional Radiocommunication Conferences and Radiocommunication Assemblies supported by Study Groups Inquiries about radiocommunication matters Please contact: ITU Radiocommunication Bureau Place des Nations CH -1211 Geneva 20 Switzerland Telephone: Fax: E-mail: Web: +41 22 730 5800 +41 22 730 5785 brmail@itu.int www.itu.int/itu-r Placing orders for ITU publications Please note that orders cannot be taken over the telephone They should be sent by fax or e-mail ITU Sales and Marketing Division Place des Nations CH -1211 Geneva 20 Switzerland Fax: E-mail: +41 22 730 5194 sales@itu.int The Electronic Bookshop of ITU: www.itu.int/publications  ITU 2013 All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, by any means whatsoever, without the prior written permission of ITU Acknowledgements iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Several photos and illustrations in this publication were kindly made available by the International Maritime Organization, Cospas-Sarsat, the International Radio-Maritime Committee, Inmarsat, UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Ofcom, United States Coastguard and BP Shipping Table of Contents v TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iii Foreword vii Introduction System overview of the GMDSS 2.1 Principles of distress alerting 2.2 Communication services 2.3 Provision of Maritime Safety Information 2.4 Main sub-systems of the GMDSS 11 The scope of activities and responsibilities 12 3.1 International Telecommunication Union 12 3.2 International Maritime Organization 15 3.3 Administrations and national authorities 17 General rules of the GMDSS 19 4.1 General provisions 19 4.2 Functional requirements 20 4.3 SOLAS carriage requirements 22 4.4 Maintenance requirements 23 4.5 Other carriage requirements 26 4.6 Carriage of equipment by other ships 27 Radio procedures 29 5.1 Radiotelephony 29 5.2 Digital selective-calling system 32 5.3 Inmarsat 35 5.4 NAVTEX 41 5.5 Cospas-Sarsat 45 5.6 Radar Search and Rescue Transponder 50 Operational procedures for distress, urgency and safety communications 52 6.1 Distress alerting and distress calling 52 6.2 Cancellation of an inadvertent distress alert 60 vi Maritime Manual Page 6.3 Urgency and safety communications 62 The use of frequencies 64 7.1 Basic considerations on the use of frequencies 64 7.2 Frequencies for the GMDSS and watch-keeping 66 7.3 Use of frequencies for general communications 71 Radio personnel requirements 77 8.1 Authority of the master 77 8.2 Operator’s certificates 77 8.3 Personnel 78 Identification of stations 79 9.1 Formation and use of call signs and MMSI 79 9.2 Table of allocation of international call sign series 81 9.3 Table of allocation of Maritime Identification Digits 82 Other administrative and operational procedures 82 10.1 Priority of communications 82 10.2 Inspection of stations 83 10.3 Working hours of stations 84 10.4 Interferences 84 10.5 Secrecy 85 10.6 Documents to be carried onboard ship 86 10.7 Phonetic alphabet and figure code 88 Related publications 89 11.1 ITU publications 89 11.2 IMO publications 91 Annex Terms and definitions 95 Annex Technical characteristics of stations 101 Annex Table of allocation of international call sign series 103 Annex Table of allocation of Maritime Identification Digits (MIDs)* 112 Annex List of Abbreviations and Glossary 119 10 11 Foreword vii FOREWORD The main purpose of the “Manual for Use by the Maritime Mobile and Maritime Mobile-Satellite Services” is to provide the maritime community with a description of the GMDSS and other maritime operational procedures as well as with a compilation of the most relevant ITU treaty, regulatory, technical and operational texts that are relevant to the maritime mobile and maritime mobile-satellite services, so that the concerned persons could have ready reference to these texts in the application of the relevant radiocommunication procedures The requirement for providing ship stations with the Maritime Manual was introduced into the Radio Regulations in 1979 following an earlier requirement, dating back to 1927, for providing the Radio Regulations and the Convention, onboard ship The Manual for use by the Maritime Mobile and Maritime Mobile-Satellite Services is published in accordance with Article 20 (No 20.14) of the Radio Regulations Volume provides descriptive text of the organisation and operation of the GMDSS and other maritime operational procedures Volume contains extracts of the regulatory texts associated with maritime operations This Volume contains the following chapters: Page Introduction System overview of the GMDSS The scope of activities and responsibilities 12 General rules of the GMDSS 19 Radio procedures 29 Operational procedures for distress, urgency and safety communications 52 The use of frequencies 64 Radio personnel requirements 77 Identification of stations 79 10 Other administrative and operational procedures 82 11 Related publications 89 Annexes are also provided to describe: Terms and definitions, Technical characteristics of stations, Table of allocation of international call sign series, Table of allocation of Maritime Identification Digits and List of Abbreviations and Glossary 110 Maritime Manual Table of allocation of international call sign series (cont.) Call sign series Allocated to 5VA-5VZ 5WA-5WZ 5XA-5XZ 5YA-5ZZ Togolese Republic Samoa (Independent State of) Uganda (Republic of) Kenya (Republic of) 6AA-6BZ 6CA-6CZ 6DA-6JZ 6KA-6NZ 6OA-6OZ 6PA-6SZ 6TA-6UZ 6VA-6WZ 6XA-6XZ 6YA-6YZ 6ZA-6ZZ Egypt (Arab Republic of) Syrian Arab Republic Mexico Korea (Republic of) Somali Democratic Republic Pakistan (Islamic Republic of) Sudan (Republic of the) Senegal (Republic of) Madagascar (Republic of) Jamaica Liberia (Republic of) 7AA-7IZ 7JA-7NZ 7OA-7OZ 7PA-7PZ 7QA-7QZ 7RA-7RZ 7SA-7SZ 7TA-7YZ 7ZA-7ZZ Indonesia (Republic of) Japan Yemen (Republic of) Lesotho (Kingdom of) Malawi Algeria (People’s Democratic Republic of) Sweden Algeria (People’s Democratic Republic of) Saudi Arabia (Kingdom of) 8AA-8IZ 8JA-8NZ 8OA-8OZ 8PA-8PZ 8QA-8QZ 8RA-8RZ 8SA-8SZ 8TA-8YZ 8ZA-8ZZ Indonesia (Republic of) Japan Botswana (Republic of) Barbados Maldives (Republic of) Guyana Sweden India (Republic of) Saudi Arabia (Kingdom of) 9AA-9AZ 9BA-9DZ 9EA-9FZ 9GA-9GZ 9HA-9HZ Croatia (Republic of) Iran (Islamic Republic of) Ethiopia (Federal Democratic Republic of) Ghana Malta Maritime Manual 111 Table of allocation of international call sign series (end) Call sign series 9IA-9JZ 9KA-9KZ 9LA-9LZ 9MA-9MZ 9NA-9NZ 9OA-9TZ 9UA-9UZ 9VA-9VZ 9WA-9WZ 9XA-9XZ 9YA-9ZZ * Allocated to Zambia (Republic of) Kuwait (State of) Sierra Leone Malaysia Nepal (Federal Democratic Republic of ) Democratic Republic of the Congo Burundi (Republic of) Singapore (Republic of) Malaysia Rwanda (Republic of) Trinidad and Tobago Series allocated to an international organization 112 Maritime Manual Annex Table of allocation of Maritime Identification Digits (MIDs)* (See the Global Administration Data System (GLAD)) (www.itu.int/ITU-R/go/glad for recent updates) MID 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209, 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 218 219, 220 224, 225 226, 227, 228 229 230 231 232, 233, 234, 235 236 237 238 239, 240, 241 242 243 244, 245, 246 247 248, 249 250 251 252 Allocated to Albania (Republic of) Andorra (Principality of) Austria Portugal – Azores Belgium Belarus (Republic of) Bulgaria (Republic of) Vatican City State Cyprus (Republic of) Germany (Federal Republic of) Cyprus (Republic of) Georgia Moldova (Republic of) Malta Armenia (Republic of) Germany (Federal Republic of) Denmark Spain France Malta Finland Denmark – Faroe Islands United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – Gibraltar Greece Croatia (Republic of) Greece Morocco (Kingdom of) Hungary (Republic of) Netherlands (Kingdom of the) Italy Malta Ireland Iceland Liechtenstein (Principality of) Maritime Manual 113 Table of allocation of Maritime Identification Digits ( MIDs)* (cont.) MID Allocated to 253 254 255 256 257, 258, 259 261 262 263 264 265, 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 Luxembourg Monaco (Principality of) Portugal – Madeira Malta Norway Poland (Republic of) Montenegro Portugal Romania Sweden Slovak Republic San Marino (Republic of) Switzerland (Confederation of) Czech Republic Turkey Ukraine Russian Federation The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Latvia (Republic of) Estonia (Republic of) Lithuania (Republic of) Slovenia (Republic of) Serbia (Republic of) 301 303 304, 305 306 307 308, 309 310 311 312 314 316 319 321 323 325 327 329 330 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – Anguilla United States of America – Alaska (State of) Antigua and Barbuda Netherlands (Kingdom of the) – Netherlands Caribbean Netherlands (Kingdom of the) – Aruba Bahamas (Commonwealth of the) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – Bermuda Bahamas (Commonwealth of the) Belize Barbados Canada United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – Cayman Islands Costa Rica Cuba Dominica (Commonwealth of) Dominican Republic France – Guadeloupe (French Department of) Grenada 114 Maritime Manual Table of allocation of Maritime Identification Digits ( MIDs)* (cont.) MID 331 332 334 336 338 339 341 343 345 347 348 350 351, 352, 353, 354 355, 356, 357 358 359 361 362 364 Allocated to Denmark – Greenland Guatemala (Republic of) Honduras (Republic of) Haiti (Republic of) United States of America Jamaica Saint Kitts and Nevis (Federation of) Saint Lucia Mexico France – Martinique (French Department of) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – Montserrat Nicaragua Panama (Republic of) 379 United States of America – Puerto Rico El Salvador (Republic of) France – Saint Pierre and Miquelon (Territorial Collectivity of) Trinidad and Tobago United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – Turks and Caicos Islands United States of America Panama (Republic of) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – British Virgin Islands United States of America – United States Virgin Islands 401 403 405 408 410 412, 413, 414 416 417 419 422 423 425 428 431, 432 434 436 Afghanistan Saudi Arabia (Kingdom of) Bangladesh (People’s Republic of) Bahrain (Kingdom of) Bhutan (Kingdom of) China (People’s Republic of) China (People’s Republic of) – Taiwan (Province of China) Sri Lanka (Democratic Socialist Republic of) India (Republic of) Iran (Islamic Republic of) Azerbaijani Republic Iraq (Republic of) Israel (State of) Japan Turkmenistan Kazakhstan (Republic of) 366, 367, 368, 369 370, 371, 372, 373 375, 376, 377 378 Maritime Manual 115 Table of allocation of Maritime Identification Digits (MIDs)* (cont.) MID Allocated to 437 438 440, 441 443 445 447 450 451 453 455 457 459 461 463 466 468 470 472 473, 475 477 478 Uzbekistan (Republic of) Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of) Korea (Republic of) Palestine (In accordance with Resolution 99 Rev Guadalajara, 2010) Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Kuwait (State of) Lebanon Kyrgyz Republic China (People’s Republic of) – Macao Maldives (Republic of) Mongolia Nepal (Federal Democratic Republic of) Oman (Sultanate of) Pakistan (Islamic Republic of) Qatar (State of) Syrian Arab Republic United Arab Emirates Tajikistan (Republic of) Yemen (Republic of) China (People’s Republic of) – Hong Kong Bosnia and Herzegovina 501 503 506 508 510 511 512 514, 515 516 518 520 523 525 529 531 533 536 France – Adelie Land Australia Myanmar (Union of) Brunei Darussalam Micronesia (Federated States of) Palau (Republic of) New Zealand Cambodia (Kingdom of) Australia – Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) New Zealand – Cook Islands Fiji (Republic of) Australia – Cocos (Keeling) Islands Indonesia (Republic of) Kiribati (Republic of) Lao People’s Democratic Republic Malaysia United States of America – Northern Mariana Islands (Commonwealth of the) Marshall Islands (Republic of the) France – New Caledonia New Zealand – Niue 538 540 542 116 Maritime Manual Table of allocation of Maritime Identification Digits (MIDs)* (cont.) MID Allocated to 544 546 548 553 555 557 559 561 563, 564, 565, 566 567 570 572 574 576, 577 578 Nauru (Republic of) France – French Polynesia Philippines (Republic of the) Papua New Guinea United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – Pitcairn Island Solomon Islands United States of America – American Samoa Samoa (Independent State of) Singapore (Republic of) Thailand Tonga (Kingdom of) Tuvalu Viet Nam (Socialist Republic of) Vanuatu (Republic of) France – Wallis and Futuna Islands 601 603 605 607 608 South Africa (Republic of) Angola (Republic of) Algeria (People’s Democratic Republic of) France – Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – Ascension Island Burundi (Republic of) Benin (Republic of) Botswana (Republic of) Central African Republic Cameroon (Republic of) Congo (Republic of the) Comoros (Union of the) Cape Verde (Republic of) France – Crozet Archipelago Côte d’Ivoire (Republic of) Djibouti (Republic of) Egypt (Arab Republic of) Ethiopia (Federal Democratic Republic of) Eritrea Gabonese Republic Ghana Gambia (Republic of the) Guinea-Bissau (Republic of) Equatorial Guinea (Republic of) Guinea (Republic of) Burkina Faso 609 610 611 612 613 615 616, 620 617 618 619 621 622 624 625 626 627 629 630 631 632 633 Maritime Manual 117 Table of allocation of Maritime Identification Digits (MIDs)* (cont.) MID Allocated to 634 635 636, 637 642 644 645 647 649 650 654 655 656 657 659 660 661 662 663 664 665 666 667 668 669 670 671 672 674 675 676 677 678 679 Kenya (Republic of) France – Kerguelen Islands Liberia (Republic of) Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Lesotho (Kingdom of) Mauritius (Republic of) Madagascar (Republic of) Mali (Republic of) Mozambique (Republic of) Mauritania (Islamic Republic of) Malawi Niger (Republic of the) Nigeria (Federal Republic of) Namibia (Republic of) France – Reunion (French Department of) Rwanda (Republic of) Sudan (Republic of the) Senegal (Republic of) Seychelles (Republic of) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – Saint Helena Somali Democratic Republic Sierra Leone Sao Tome and Principe (Democratic Republic of) Swaziland (Kingdom of) Chad (Republic of) Togolese Republic Tunisia Tanzania (United Republic of) Uganda (Republic of) Democratic Republic of the Congo Tanzania (United Republic of) Zambia (Republic of) Zimbabwe (Republic of) 701 710 720 725 730 735 740 Argentine Republic Brazil (Federative Republic of) Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Chile Colombia (Republic of) Ecuador United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland –Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 118 Maritime Manual Table of allocation of Maritime Identification Digits (MIDs)* (end) MID 745 750 755 760 765 770 775 * Allocated to France – Guiana (French Department of) Guyana Paraguay (Republic of) Peru Suriname (Republic of) Uruguay (Eastern Republic of) Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) In connection with the inclusion of an allocation to the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) in the Table of Maritime Identification Digits, reference is made to the declaration by the Argentine Republic reproduced as No 49 of the “Declarations and Reservations made at the end of the Additional Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunication Union (Geneva, 1992)” and the declaration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland reproduced as No 80 of the same Declarations and Reservations Maritime Manual 119 Annex List of Abbreviations and Glossary AIS AIS-SART Baud bps CES COM CS DSC EGC EPIRB FM GEO GMDSS GOC GPS HF IAMSAR IBRD LEO LES LRC LUT MARS MCC MF MIDs MMSI MRCC MSI NBDP PC automatic identification system AIS search and rescue transmitter symbol/seconds bits per seconds coast earth station communication coast station digital selective-calling enhanced group call emergency position-indicating radiobeacon frequency modulation Geostationary-Earth orbit global maritime distress and safety system general operator’s certificate global positioning system high frequency International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue International Beacon Registration Database Low-Earth orbit land earth station long range certificate local user terminal maritime mobile access and retrieval system mission control centre medium frequency Maritime Identification Digits Maritime Mobile Service Identity Maritime rescue coordination centre maritime safety information narrow-band direct-printing (telegraphy) personal computer 120 Maritime Manual ROC restricted operator’s certificate RCC rescue co-ordination centre RF radio-frequency RT radiotelephony SAR search and rescue SART radar search and rescue transponder SES ship earth station SRC short range certificate SSB single sideband SOLAS International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 VHF very high frequency UTC coordinated universal time nautical mile 852 m Maritime Manual 121 Glossary Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) www.fao.org International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) www.icao.int International Labour Organization (ILO) www.ilo.org International Maritime Organization (IMO) www.imo.org International Telecommunication Union (ITU) www.itu.int International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) www.iec.ch International Organization for Standardization (ISO) www.iso.org International Association for Marine Radio Companies (CIRM) www.cirm.org International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) www.iho-ohi.net Inmarsat Global Ltd (Inmarsat) www.inmarsat.com World Health Organization (WHO) www.who.int World Meteorological Organization (WMO) www.wmo.int _ edition OF 2013 I n t e r n a t i o n a l Te l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n U n i o n Manual for use by the Maritime Mobile and International Telecommunication Union Sales and Marketing Division Place des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 20 Switzerland sales@itu.int www.itu.int/publications *38428* Printed in Switzerland Geneva, 2013 ISBN 978-92-61-14341-1 Photo credits: Shutterstock, ITU/K Bogens © Manual for use by the Maritime Mobile and Maritime Mobile-Satellite Services Maritime Mobile-Satellite Services Edition of 2013 Radiocommunication Bureau Provisions of the Telecommunication Services applicable or useful to stations in the Maritime Mobile and Maritime Mobile‑Satellite Services Volume [...]... parts of these bands are further reserved for use by maritime communications only and they are referred to as bands for the maritime mobile service Similarly, if satellite communications are involved the service is known as the mobilesatellite service and the maritime mobile- satellite service The use of the frequencies in these services is described in Chapter 7 The Radio Regulations are maintained by ITU... treaties concerning the safety of merchant ships The first version was adopted in 19 14, in response to the Titanic disaster, the second in 19 29 and the third in 19 48 The SOLAS Convention then became one of the main instruments of the IMO and the first major task for the new Organization The resulting 19 60 Convention represented a considerable step forward at the time in modernizing regulations and in keeping... provisions for the operational use of the GMDSS which are obligatory in the maritime mobile service and maritime mobile- satellite service for all stations using the frequencies and techniques of the GMDSS The Chapter refers to the SOLAS Convention for the detail of the functional requirements, system elements and equipment carriage requirements of the GMDSS Within Chapter VII, Article 30 of the Radio Regulations... accordance with the WMO technical regulations and recommendations SAR information is provided by the various authorities responsible for coordinating maritime search and rescue operations and other urgent safety-related information is provided by the relevant national or international authority responsible for managing the system or scheme Maritime Manual 2.4 11 Main sub-systems of the GMDSS The main sub-systems... associated with the GMDSS such as the carriage of a receiver for a global navigation satellite system and the carriage of a radar compatible with the SART, the requirement to carry the International Code of Signals and Volume III of the International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue (IAMSAR) Manual, and the obligation for the master of a ship to communicate danger messages and provide assistance... FIGURE 10 Training centre set up by the Norwegian Administration for operator’s certificates Maritime- 10 Maritime Manual 19 4 General rules of the GMDSS 4 .1 General provisions The provisions for distress and safety communications are given in the Radio Regulations, Chapter VII Distress and safety communications include distress, urgency and safety calls and messages The Chapter contains the provisions for. .. stations and ships for the transmission and reception of all types of messages from the routine to the distress category This automated calling system is used as the initial means of contact with other stations The DSC system is optimized for use in emergencies and the distress alert includes information on the identity of the vessel in distress and the last recorded position and can also include the nature... established the appropriate regulatory framework for the implementation of the GMDSS through the 19 83 and 19 87 World Administrative Radio Conferences for the Mobile Services (WARC Mob-83 and -87) which adopted amendments to the ITU Radio Regulations prescribing frequencies, operational procedures and radio personnel for the GMDSS 2 Maritime Manual A further change with the new system was that it applied not.. .Maritime Manual 1 1 Introduction Communication with ships was the first application of radio at the end of the nineteenth century Ships started fitting radio installations for the purpose of improving the business of the ship and gradually these installations came to be used also for distress and safety purposes With an increasing number of ships using radio, the need for technical standards and. .. Radio Regulations contains the general provisions which include aeronautical provisions and certain provisions for land mobile stations Mobile stations of the maritime mobile service are permitted to communicate, for safety purposes, with aircraft (see Fig 11 ) using the GMDSS procedures and frequencies FIGURE 11 Aircraft are permitted to use the GMDSS for safety purposes Search and Rescue aircraft may ... i o n Manual for use by the Maritime Mobile and Maritime Mobile- Satellite Services Volume ENGLISH EDITION 2 013 Radiocommunication Bureau THE RADIOCOMMUNICATION SECTOR OF ITU The role of the Radiocommunication... in 19 79 following an earlier requirement, dating back to 19 27, for providing the Radio Regulations and the Convention, onboard ship The Manual for use by the Maritime Mobile and Maritime Mobile- Satellite. .. purpose of the Manual for Use by the Maritime Mobile and Maritime Mobile- Satellite Services is to provide the maritime community with a description of the GMDSS and other maritime operational procedures