An authoritative and clear voice

摘要

HIGH PRIORITY HAS long been given to the ability for vessels and the various port agencies to communicate using clear and authoritative definitions for the terms used daily in port operations. For this project, the International Taskforce on Port Call Optimisation sourced definitions from existing standards within the shipping industry. Only when no applicable definition could be found was a new one introduced and published via the glossary of the UKHO's Mariners' Handbook (NP100), the publication available most frequently on the bridge of all SOLAS ships and in most offices of harbourmasters globally.