Enavigation was initially proposed as a co-ordinated approach to avoid the risks associated with the ad hoc development of electronic navigation and its impact on the existing aids-to-navigation infrastructure. In 2005, UK transport minister Steve Ladyman introduced e-navigation as a broad and rather generalised notion in his speech to the Royal Institute of Navigation conference. He noted that the technology and levels of integration typically applied to the bridge of a merchant ship compared u....

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