The roll out of the mandatory carriage of ecdis began in July as a compulsory addition to the bridge equipment on new passenger ships of more than 500gt and new tankers of more than 3,000gt. There is a staggered timetable for ecdis implementation; new dry cargo ships of more than 50,000gt will have to carry the equipment from July next year. All passenger ships, regardless of their delivery date, will need to have ecdis on their bridges by their first survey after July 2014. By the end of this d....

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