Voyage planning Procedure explained || Passage planning onboard ship.

🟥QUICK REVIEW: PASSAGE PLANNING BASICS (Publications to check) When creating your Passage Plan, you do not just go out there and input waypoints on the ECDIS and call it a day. No. You need extra publications to enhance you passage plan creation.. On our page, we joke around why Officers do not fancy when we change our Port of Call. It is because of the pile of Publications & Documents we have to verify just to make sure the Passage Plan is well created and approved for safe voyage. ****some pu

🟥SUBJECT: REROUTING(PASSAGE PLAN LESSON) To all maritime students... In Navigation, ships don’t always take the shortest or fastest route. Safety comes first. Sometimes, vessels change course because of bad weather, piracy threats, or conflict zones. For example, a ship from Europe going to Asia (vice versa) would normally pass through the Suez Canal. But due to recent conflicts, many are now going around Cape Town in South Africa. When you finally create your Passage Plan consider always the s