| 26/06/2009 | Anti-Piracy Routing
This release of the tables extends the anti-piracy routing of the previous version to include a new route down the spine of the Indian Ocean. This route is intended to be used when you wish to avoid passing through the ‘danger’ area off the Somalia coast when tracking North or South to/from South Africa and ports in the Gulf of Aden, the Arabia Gulf and Northern Indian Ocean.
The route passes to the East of the Seychelles, to the West of Mauritius and Reunion Islands and then some 50’ off the coast of Madagascar.
We realise that this may not be the route of choice for all users, it is however representative and very similar to that used by a large number of owners.
You can opt out of using this route by un-checking the Anti-Piracy Routing option in Routing control. This will disable both the Indian Ocean routing as well as the Gulf of Aden Transit route. You can still route through the transit corridor by building a voyage and using the appropriate Gulf of Aden Transit Corridor ‘ports’. Seca Mileages
The web edition of the tables now automatically calculates SECA mileages for the North West European Seca Areas, others will be added as and when they come into force. For PC users of PortToPort there is a FREE add-on called BORIS that will do the same thing.
Pilot Distances
We are working our way through all of our port approaches putting in ‘missing’ pilot stations, to date we have completed approximately half of all the ports in the tables, work continues on the remainder.
Pilot stations are being inserted where they are well defined and can be represented by a single position. Unfortunately this is not always the case, many ports do not have a defined pilot station, others have many depending on the speed of the ship, the draught, the cargo, the weather etc.
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