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NovacoBridge
- - - What is NovacoBridge?
      
      NovacoBridge is our complete, integrated navigation management solution. Available as a comprehensive all-in-one suite of tools for vessel and onshore, or as individual modules, it provides a simple yet sophisticated way to select, buy and maintain charts and publications.
Novaco NB+
- - - What is Novaco NB+?
      
      Novaco NB+ is a web-based portal that allows users onshore or on a vessel to plot and manage routes, and select, buy and maintain charts and publications – whether digital or paper. In essence it gives you access to many of the time and cost-saving features of NovacoBridge, but solely via the web.
NovacoHub
- - - What is NovacoHub?
      
      NovacoHub is smart technology that provides a vessel with immediate and secure access to vital navigation data and tracking. It’s a discrete device that attaches to the wheelhouse, and via a single ethernet cable can deliver charts and updates to your ECDIS, ENC and e-books to any networked PC, and vessel tracking to any networked device or remote shore-based teams.
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Novaco delivers across the globe

Novaco supports shipping of all kinds, in all sectors from chemical and gas, containers ships through to bulk handling.

Primarily we support the navigational and data requirements of vessels operating under SOLAS Chapter V (Safety Of Lives at Sea Chapter V: Safety of navigation). This tends to include commercial shipping such as container and tanker operators.

However Chapter V is different from the other chapters of the regulations, which apply to certain classes of commercial shipping. Chapter V applies to all vessels and their crews, including yachts and private craft, on all voyages and trips including local voyages. Similarly Novaco supports smaller yachts and other smaller commercial vessels. If vessels need navigation information, we will gladly assist.

While naval vessels such as warships and vessels on Government non-commercial activities are not covered by SOLAS, we also support various navies with navigational data services.

Supporting the demands of SOLAS regulations

Chapter V of the SOLAS Convention places a requirement on Governments that they ensure all vessels are both sufficiently and efficiently manned from a safety perspective. The requirements apply to all vessels in respect of voyage and passage planning. There is an expectation that there will be a careful assessment of any proposed voyages by all who go to sea. This means that every mariner must take account of all potential dangers to navigation, navigational warnings, weather forecasts, tidal predictions, the competence of the crew, and all other relevant factors.

The chapter also adds an obligation for all vessels’ masters to offer assistance to those in distress. It controls the use of lifesaving signals with specific requirements regarding danger and distress messages.