World’s first UKHO approved app

As part of a continuing mission to enhance navigation standards in the maritime industry, on 1 September the navigation management company Da Gama Maritime (DGM), will launch their new ‘Vasco App’, it is learnt. Having been accepted by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) as meeting the rigorous standards to provide official paper chart corrections, this is the first means, it is understood, by which the information is provided to the mariner by way of an electronic tablet device.