IMO STANDARD MARINE COMMUNICATION PHRASES

INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION

IMO

E

SUB-COMMITTEE ON SAFETY OF

NAVIGATION

46th session

Agenda item 9

NAV 46/INF.4

4 April 2000

Original: ENGLISH

IMO STANDARD MARINE COMMUNICATION PHRASES (SMCP)

Note submitted by Germany

SUMMARY

Executive summary: The document provides the working results elaborated by the group of

experts.

Action to be taken: To be noted when reconsidering the SMCP.

Related documents: NAV 45/14, NAV 46/9

1 This information document is intended to provide the working results elaborated by the

group of experts. The revised version of the SMCP is set out in the annex.

Action requested of the Sub-Committee

2 The Sub-Committee is invited to note the information provided and use it when

reconsidering the SMCP.

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ANNEX

FOREWORD

As navigational and safety communications from ship to shore and vice versa, ship to ship, and

on board ships must be precise, simple and unambiguous, so as to avoid confusion and error,

there is a need to standardize the language used. This is of particular importance in the light of

the increasing number of internationally trading vessels with crews speaking many different

languages since problems of communication may cause misunderstandings leading to dangers to

the vessel, the people on board and the environment.

In 1973 the IMO Maritime Safety Committee agreed at its twenty-seventh session that, where

language difficulties arise, a common language should be used for navigational purposes and that

language should be English. In consequence the Standard Marine Navigational Vocabulary

(SMNV) was developed, adopted in 1977 and amended in 1985.

In 1992 the IMO Maritime Safety Committee at its sixtieth session instructed the IMO Sub-

Committee on Safety of Navigation to develop a more comprehensive standardized safety

language than the SMNV, 1985, taking into account the changing conditions in modern seafaring

and covering all major safety-related verbal communications.

At its sixty-eighth session in 1997 the IMO Maritime Safety Committee adopted the Draft

Standard Marine Communication Phrases (SMCP) developed by a Working and Drafting Group

of the IMO Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation chaired by Prof. Dr. Peter Trenkner,

Germany. The Draft SMCP, following international trials, was amended at the forty-sixth

session of this Sub-Committee and final consideration given at the IMO Maritime Safety

Committee at its [... ] session in the light of remarks received by the Organization. The SMCP

was adopted by the IMO Assembly in [... ]as resolution A.([... ]).

Under the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping

for Seafarers, 1978, as revised 1995, the ability to understand and use the SMCP is required for

the certification of officers in charge of a navigational watch on ships of 500 gross tonnage or

more.

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IMO STANDARD MARINE COMMUNICATION PHRASES

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

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