Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission Response Working Group Brussels, Belgium, 1-3 June 2015 RESPONSE 20-2015 Page 1 of 1 Document title Outcome of HELCOM AIS EWG 26-2015 Code 3-5 Category INF Agenda Item 3 – Maritime traffic Submission date 27.5.2015 Submitted by Secretariat Reference Background The attached document contains the outcome of the 26 th Meeting of the HELCOM Expert Working Group for Mutual Exchange and Deliveries of AIS & Data (AIS EWG 26-2015) held on 19-20 May 2015 in Gdynia, Poland. A new portal to access HELCOM AIS via Danish Maritime Agency is up and running since early spring 2015. The next meeting of the Group (AIS EWG 27-2016) will be hosted by Russian Federation during the two last weeks of May 2016. The exact dates will be decided at a later stage. Action required The Meeting is invited to take note of the outcome.
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Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission
Response Working Group Brussels, Belgium, 1-3 June 2015
RESPONSE 20-2015
Page 1 of 1
Document title Outcome of HELCOM AIS EWG 26-2015
Code 3-5
Category INF
Agenda Item 3 – Maritime traffic
Submission date 27.5.2015
Submitted by Secretariat
Reference
Background The attached document contains the outcome of the 26th Meeting of the HELCOM Expert Working Group
for Mutual Exchange and Deliveries of AIS & Data (AIS EWG 26-2015) held on 19-20 May 2015 in Gdynia,
Poland.
A new portal to access HELCOM AIS via Danish Maritime Agency is up and running since early spring 2015.
The next meeting of the Group (AIS EWG 27-2016) will be hosted by Russian Federation during the two last weeks of May 2016. The exact dates will be decided at a later stage.
Action required The Meeting is invited to take note of the outcome.
Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission
Expert Working Group for Mutual Exchange and Deliveries of AIS & Data Gdynia, Poland, 19-20 May 2015
AIS EWG 26-2015
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OUTCOME OF THE 26TH MEETING OF THE
EXPERT WORKING GROUP FOR MUTUAL EXCHANGE AND DELIVERIES OF AIS & DATA
(HELCOM AIS EWG)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction ............2
Agenda Item 1 Adoption of the Agenda ............2
Agenda Item 2 Matters arising from other HELCOM meetings ............2
Agenda Item 3 Recent national developments of AIS ............2
Agenda Item 4 Access to and use of HELCOM AIS information ............4
Agenda Item 5 Maintaining and further development of HELCOM AIS ............4
Agenda Item 6 Cooperation with other organizations ............5
Agenda Item 7 Any other business ............5
Agenda Item 8 Future work and meetings ............5
Agenda Item 9 Outcome of the Meeting ............6
Annex 1 List of Participants ............7
Annex 2 Contact address lists for HELCOM AIS EWG ............8
Annex 4 List of Documents and List of Presentations ..........13
Outcome of AIS EWG 26-2015
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OUTCOME OF THE 26TH MEETING OF THE
EXPERT WORKING GROUP FOR MUTUAL EXCHANGE AND DELIVERIES OF AIS & DATA
(HELCOM AIS EWG)
Introduction
0.1 In accordance with the decision by HELCOM AIS EWG 25-2014 (Outcome of the Meeting, Paragraph 8.6), the 26th Meeting of the Expert Working Group for Mutual Exchange and Deliveries of AIS & Data (HELCOM AIS EWG) was convened on 19-20 May 2015 in Gdynia, Poland, at the premises of the Maritime Office.
0.2 The Meeting was attended by Delegations from Denmark, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation and Sweden. The List of Participants is attached as Annex 1.
0.3 Mr. Omar Eriksson from Denmark, Chair of HELCOM AIS EWG, acted as Chairman of the Meeting. Mr. Marek Dziewicki, Vice-Chair of HELCOM AIS EWG, acted as Vice-Chair of the Meeting. Mr. Hermanni Backer, HELCOM Professional Secretary, acted as Secretary of the Meeting.
0.4 The Meeting was welcomed by Mr. Marek Ledohovsky, Head of the department on Aids to Navigation, and Mr. Marek Dziewicki, representing Maritime Office in Gdynia.
Agenda Item 1 Adoption of the Agenda
Documents: 1-1, 1-2
1.1 The Meeting adopted the Agenda as contained in document 1-1.
Agenda Item 2 Matters arising from other HELCOM meetings
Documents: 2-1
2.1 The Meeting took note of oral information by the Secretariat on recent activities within HELCOM groups related to maritime traffic and AIS, including the work to develop the maritime traffic overview in the annual HELCOM accident reports and the foreseen maritime assessment, a recent study regarding cruise ship traffic in the Baltic Sea related to the enforcement of the MARPOL Annex IV (Sewage), the work to develop regional information exchange on spills related to accidents, the need for more regular risk assessments related to maritime traffic as well as the emerging activities in the field of Maritime Spatial Planning.
2.2 The Meeting took note of the information in document 2-1 on the ‘Roadmap of HELCOM activities on ecosystem approach’ which is used by HELCOM since 2013 to facilitate planning of its major deliverables and milestones until 2021. It facilitates better coordination between the HELCOM subsidiary bodies. The Roadmap is a living document, updated as processes develop and decisions are taken.
Agenda Item 3 Recent national developments of AIS
Documents: 3-1
3.1 The Meeting took a round-the-table in order to share information on national developments relevant to HELCOM AIS:
― Poland (Presentation 1): AIS coverage is currently considered to be 100% of the Polish waters. 23 new cameras have been installed on coast to confirm ships visually. A new Uniproxy server, developed by DMA, has been installed at the Maritime Office which currently takes care of all the Polish AIS international data exchange connections with no downsampling needed. VDL
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loading is 11-15% (142-170 units) in the Polish EEZ. Poland follows IMO/ IALA developments on VDE and Maritime Cloud.
― Sweden (Presentation 2): Sweden has replaced national AIS hardware and software (SAAB). The software will enable differentiated access to different types of users fulfilling the Swedish criteria for data access (e.g. Harbours, Shipping companies and Harbour Logistics companies).Trials have been carried out with “lights on demand” listening to dedicated AIS messages (also VHF carrier signal on a given Channel has been tested). In the first phase tests have been on solar driven floodlights illuminating lights. A new base station has been planned at Svenska Högarna to decrease the blind spot in the west of Saaremaa. SMA has started technology groups, one of which will be on AIS.
― Lithuania: Three new stations have been installed in 2014.
― Norway (Presentation 3) on national developments: Norway has started to renew all base stations with new hardware (-115 dbM Kongsberg Seatex). 3rd AIS satellite will be operational during the autumn.
― Latvia: Coverage has not changed and network consists today of eight base stations. A budget for renewal of the entire Latvian GMDSS and AIS systems is in the political initiative phase.. The work will likely start in 2017.
― Russia (Presentation 4): There are plans to expand the base station network in the Kaliningrad area. 20 virtual AtoNs were used during the last winter; Russia has installed new hardware provided by InfiNet wireless. The work on the IP compatible Rosmorport microwave wireless broadband system, used for supplying information to the icebreaker fleet, is also under development.
― Finland: No changes to the base stations. Efforts have been made in organising data sharing and storage nationally. Giving out AIS as open data has been recently considered, however, only Class A data and SAR aircraft data.
― Denmark (Presentation 5): Same number of base stations, originals refitted in 2013 with SAAB (current is 2nd generation). Recently DMA became the owner of Coastal Radio System provided by a company, combining with a duplex filter AIS and radio communications in the same system. NoSQL database is also maturing and has been tested. As an example, the Arctic web - a DMA service where AIS and other data on the Arctic Sea is provided to the end user - is delivered via the NoSQL system hosted by DMA. Regarding VDL loading a small trial has been made where maximum values of 30-28% were observed around Skagen and Laesö.
3.2 The Meeting considered that the wireless broadband solution tested by the Russian Federation is very interesting and that the IALA e-navigation committee could also be informed about it.
3.3 The Meeting agreed that there is a need to harmonise the way VDL loading is measured/expressed (e.g. by developing an IALA Guideline) and appreciated that Sweden and Poland volunteered to draft and submit a document on VDL loading definitions to IALA.
3.4 The Meeting took note of the latest news regarding the MONA LISA 2 and the new STM projects by Sweden (Presentation 6). The project is developing as planned.
3.5 The Meeting took note of the presentation on EfficienSea 2 project by Denmark (Presentation 7).
3.6 The Meeting took note of the presentation by Poland on the offshore wind farms influence on the AIS system (Presentation 8).
3.7 The Meeting agreed not to update the list of stations providing weather data (document 3-1) but continue to exchange information on major developments in the field of application specific messages during future meetings.
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Agenda Item 4 Access to and use of HELCOM AIS information
Documents: 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 5-1
4.1 The Meeting took note of the presentation by the HELCOM Secretariat on the SCOPE project and the HELCOM Secretariat efforts to provide better AIS data products to the region via the project (Presentation 9).
4.2 The Meeting took note of the presentation by Sweden on best practices for AIS data analysis (Presentation 10).
4.3 The Meeting agreed that it is important to share best practices in data handling as well as definitions of certain AIS data products such as density plots and welcomed that the HELCOM Secretariat can take the lead and that Sweden can contribute to the work for a guidance on these issues, to be available for consideration by the next meeting of the EWG in 2016.
4.4 The Meeting noted that there is a difference between the density of fast ships and slow ships, as fast ships might involve higher risks.
4.5 The Meeting took note of document 5-1 submitted by Finland, on the need to harmonise data model for historic data.
4.6 The Meeting noted that this idea of a data model for historic data is important and welcomed that Finland agreed to take the task to lead the correspondence and that Denmark, Poland and the Secretariat would be interested to contribute to the work, to be available for consideration by the next meeting of the EWG in 2016.
4.7 The Meeting noted that today something like this is in use in Poland for coastal waters where the three regional data loggers are connected machine-to-machine which could be seen as a kind of demo of the initiative.
4.8 The Meeting considered the revision of HELCOM Recommendation 33/1 (document 4-3) and agreed that Maritime Spatial Planning should be added to the list of legitimate uses, and that in general the conditions on data access could be relaxed a bit and welcomed that the Chair and Secretariat will develop a draft version for circulation and agreement by the AIS EWG by autumn 2015.
Agenda Item 5 Maintaining and further development of HELCOM AIS
Documents:
5.1 The Meeting noted that in Sweden there has been some discussion regarding transmitting fuel temperature as part of AIS but no concrete action has been taken so far and that in Finland there are initiatives to develop methods for compliency monitoring.
5.2 The Meeting took note that the EfficienSea 2 project plans to develop solutions for monitoring the compliancy with environmental regulations, including possibly an application specific message on fuel temperature, and requested the Chair to report on progress within the project at the next meeting.
5.3 The Meeting noted that, if found useful, such an application specific message should be developed and eventually brought up at IALA, where a list of of application specific AIS messages is kept, and at IMO, who decides on the use of such messages.
5.4 The Meeting took note that Denmark has tested the use of sniffer-equipped drones to monitor exhaust gas, and thus, fuel composition and that the trials will continue within EfficienSea 2.
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Agenda Item 6 Cooperation with other organizations
Documents:
6.1 The Meeting took note that in the North Atlantic and North Sea AIS cooperation has used the HELCOM AIS Agreement as a starting point for their own policy on data access, also IALA net established in the Mediterranean works in a similar manner as the Baltic cooperation and has also a database hosted by DMA.
6.2 The Meeting recalled that ITU is in the process to re-allocate traditional maritime radio channels to enable modern e-navigation services via VDESand secure traditional functions such as the core collision avoidance function of AIS. A document on channel plan has been developed by IALA and it will be submitted to ITU Conference.
6.3 The Meeting took note that the Swedish Maritime Authority in cooperation with SAAB has recently carried out two trials on the VDES. The tests indicate that 300 kb per second can be attained as a theoretical value but that the transmission range has to be decreased to one fourth, which means that the line of sight range will likely not be reached.
6.4 The Meeting took note of the video on the Maritime Cloud by the Chair and noted that channel roaming is a central part of the Maritime Cloud.
6.5 The Meeting noted that after a slow start developments on e-navigation are accelerating globally due to the increasing interest from the industry.
6.6 The Meeting noted that the countries around the Baltic Sea region have been on the forefront of the e-navigation developments and that the regional test beds - under development within projects like EfficienSea 2, Monalisa 1&2 and the foreseen STM project – will function as central global pilots.
Agenda Item 7 Any other business
Documents: 7-1
7.1 The Meeting updated the lists of contact persons and technical representatives for HELCOM AIS EWG as well as contact persons for the HELCOM AIS Agreement (document 7-1) as contained in Annex 2. Further updates are requested to be submitted to the HELCOM Secretariat ([email protected]).
7.2 The Meeting took note of the need of regular risk assessments for the Baltic Sea region, which has been discussed at the HELCOM Response Group and the recently established ICES WGMABS.
7.3 The Meeting took note of the presentation by the Chair on the IWRAP model and agreed that it is a good beginning for further developments based on other approaches in risk assessment (Presentation 11).
7.4 The Meeting found the idea of a dynamic risk model for the whole of the Baltic Sea as an interesting one and welcomed that Denmark and Poland are willing to consider bringing this idea further.
Agenda Item 8 Future work and meetings
Documents: 8-1
8.1 The Meeting took note of the Terms of Reference for HELCOM AIS EWG adopted by HOD 46-2014 (document 8-1).
8.2 The Meeting highlighted that it is important to monitor the implementation of e-navigation in the Baltic Sea especially topics like VDES, R-MODE, STM, sharing information on signal propagation and the Maritime Cloud and the Russian initiative with 3.5 GHz microwave data links.
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8.3 The Meeting welcomed the information that the 27th Meeting of HELCOM AIS EWG can be hosted by the Russian Federation during the two last weeks of May 2016.
8.4 The Meeting agreed that the next meeting should preferably be held as a 1,5 day meeting beginning in the morning of the first day and ending early afternoon of the second day.
Agenda Item 9 Outcome of the Meeting
Documents: 9-1
9.1 The Meeting adopted the draft Outcome of HELCOM AIS EWG 26-2015 containing the main decisions of the Meeting (document 9-1). The Outcome of the Meeting will be made available in the HELCOM Meeting Portal, together with the documents considered and presentations given during the Meeting (Annex 3).
9.2 The Meeting thanked Poland for the excellent arrangements and generous hosting of the Meeting.
Please provide him with the following information: Full name, Company, Tel. no., e-mail, Postal address and an acronym in 3 letters and the application wished to access: 1) Proxy real time data, 2) web statistics, 3) extract historical AIS data in web statistics or 4) web AIS display