Catalog Passage Planning with ECDIS

Passage Planning with ECDIS

Days of access: 91 Modules: 7

This course intends to provide the knowledge, skill, and understanding of passage planning with ECDIS and electronic charts data handling to the thorough extent needed to safely navigate vessels whose primary means of navigation is ECDIS. The course emphasizes specific requirements to passage planning, calculation of safety limits, usage of available data layers, and their appropriate update.

By Alex Pipchenko | 30 March 2026
Passage Planning with ECDIS

Regulations and Guidelines

  1. SOLAS, Chapter V

  2. The International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW)

  3. IMO Model Course 1.27 Operational use of Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS)

  4. MSC 232(82) Revised performance standards for Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS)

  5. MSC 1503 ECDIS – Guidance for good practice

  6. INTERTANKO Guide to Safe Navigation (including ECDIS)

Course Content

Training allocation
Theory learning
Workshop and intermediat eassessment
Practical learning
Final assesment