Navigation safety for UK seafarers
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Vessel traffic management, electronic nautical publications and safety information for owners, operators of ships, yachts, fishing vessels.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Vessel traffic management, electronic nautical publications and safety information for owners, operators of ships, yachts, fishing vessels. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Vessel traffic management
- Vessel traffic services
- Local Port Service
- VTS - publications and guidance
- Navigational warnings
- Navigation safety leaflets
- Digital nautical publications
- Digital nautical publications - requirements and equivalency
- Alternative arrangements
- SOLAS Chapter V
- COLREG Guidance
- General navigation
- Further enquiries
Source and licence
Maritime and Coastguard Agency
AttributionMaritime and Coastguard Agency, ‘Navigation safety for UK seafarers’ (updated 3 April 2024), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026