1. National system for Reporting and Information in Iceland Baldur Bjartmarsson Director of Lighthouse and Management Div. Icelandic Maritime Administration

2. Preface n MTS Reykjavik Surveillance and reporting systems IMA´s information system

3. n Maritime Traffic Service, Reykjavik

4. A law on establishing MTS was passed in 2002 A contract was made in June 2004 with following organizations to run the MTS: –Icelandic Coast Guard –Emergency Alert 112 –Landsbjorg, Icelandic association for search and rescue Icelandic Maritime Adm. monitors MTS on behalf of Ministry of Transport MTS commenced in August 2004 The launching and organization of MTS Reykjavik

5. Main functions of the MTS Costal radio service  Surveillance of marine traffic Maritime Assistance Service MRCC MTS Reykjavik is under supervision of the Icelandic coast guard

6. Maritime Traffic Service Reykjavik

7. Reporting and Surveillance systems

8. Reporting / Surveillance systems at the MTS — Automatic surveillance system for fishing vessels — Ship reporting system — AIS ( in installation phase)

9. Automatic surveillance system for fishing vessels Automatic surveillance system for fishing vessels established in May 2000 The main purpose of the system is safety monitoring Has a special distress signaling mechanism, which has the highest priority in the data transmission VHF based but can be accessed by Inmarsat

10. Automatic surveillance system for fishing vessels Vessels up to 24 m report every 15 minutes (1hr), vessels over 24 m report at 12 hr interval 24/365 surveilance at MTS Reykjavik Majority of all distress cases are solved through the system with the aid of vessels in the vicinity of distress

11. The system A shipborne VHF station with a distress button. 9 onshore base stations with fixed telephone lines and 28 repeaters, total of 37 shore-stations, most of them with standby spare stations for increased safety VHF Network Controller Communication Server Monitoring Console w. /specialized software

12. The users 1600 user equipments installed, 500 to 1000 in daily use 100 ships use INMARSAT- C 90 ships use INMARSAT- C through the Coastguard (NEAFC/NFO) New input can easily be added (e.g. AIS)

14. The TSS Boat Station, Base Station and Repeater Station

15. Graphical output that shows every vessel in the system – its position, speed and course

17. Ship reporting system

18. n MTS has a mandatory ship reporting system running Reporting sheet, available at webside, covers: General information, name, owner, destination, ETA, bunker oil information, etc. Hazmat information ISPS information – Ship carrying oil and hazmat report every 6 hrs inside IEEZ

19. AIS in Iceland

20. AIS – plan for Iceland

21. IMA´s information system on weather and seastate

22. IMA´s information system Real-time information are updated every hour 9 offshore wave buoys owned by IMA 15 automatic weather stations owned by IMA and “IMO” 14 automatic harbour stations with weather, tide and wave gauges in harbours owned by harbours Wave and weather forecast received daily at 03:30 GMT via the Icelandic Meteorological Office from the ECMWF – European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in Reading UK Forecasting at 6 hrs intervals up to 6 days Numerical Tidal Simulation Model to compute tides, tidal currents and storm surge in North Atlantic for next two days

24. Access to enviromental data Access to real-time measurements opended : –in 1996 to a automatic voice service. up to 400 calls per day and 6500 calls per month –in 1997 to IMA home page www.sigling.is average of 8000 visits per month –in 2002 to tide and storm surge forecast –in 2004 wave height information on teletext (TV)

28. 24. jan 00:0029. jan 00:00 January 2000 Wave height (m) Wave buoy 64.05°N, 22.94°V 6 hour 64.00°N, 23.00°V 12 hour 64.00°N, 23.00°V 18 hour 64.00°N, 23.00°V 24 hour 64.00°N, 23.00°V 36 hour 64.00°N, 23.00°V 48 hour 64.00°N, 23.00°V

29. Highest,,100 year waves“ close to 65° latitude, Rossouw,1997

31. n Thank you for your attention !