Baltic Sea e-Nav project creates the next generation of navigational products and services compliant with new international standards, enabling national authorities and other maritime organizations to ensure safer, more harmonized, and eco-efficient navigation at the Baltic Sea.

Ship navigation is facing a paradigm shift. Finally, full digitalization of navigational charts (maps at sea) will help reduce the negative impacts of shipping on the marine ecosystem and make the sector more sustainable.

When developing navigational products from today’s standards, which are best compared with an early 2000s car navigator, to the new S-100 standards, which are more to equate with complex but user-friendly Google Maps, navigators will be able to plan more energy efficient routes, avoid safety risks and plan operations with extra sensitive areas taken into consideration. The blue data will also be a valuable asset in marine spatial planning and for making better decisions when navigating at sea, especially to help all ocean activities to safely co-exist.

This project will lever the value of this data and start the implementation of the S-100 products. To unlock this potential and ensure seamless navigation in the Baltic Sea, there is a need for transnational cooperation with following parties. Without such an effort, the delays of some countries due to varying maturity level will affect the availability of the latest navigational products for shipping in the Baltic Sea. It will consequently also affect the implementation of the EUSBSR and a transition to a sustainable blue economy.

Funding: BSR Co-financing and FMI Duration: 1.11.2023-31.10.2026 Project manager: Patrick Eriksson, Patrick.Eriksson@fmi.fi

More information on the project website (at interreg-baltic.eu).