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Search for answers, if not found contact us
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Notification of Search and Rescue (SAR) aircraft particulars (CM16) |
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I am responsible for notifying, as
requested in your circular letter CM/16, information concerning SAR
aircraft. As I am not familiar on how to assign an MMSI number, please
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Please be advised
that RECOMMENDATION ITU-R M.585-5
(Assignment and use of maritime mobile service
identities)
provides guidance to
administrations for the assignment and conservation of maritime mobile
service identities (MMSI). Formats for ship stations, coast stations,
aircraft participating in search and rescue (SAR) operations, aids to
navigation, and craft associated with a parent ship are described as
well as some limitations which constrain assignments for ships which
utilize the satellite services of the global maritime distress and
safety system (GMDSS). Guidance is provided for future mobile satellite
systems and the reuse of decommissioned numbers.
Please contact us at brtpr@itu.int
for further assistance.
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| Miscellaneous
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| How often is the MARS website updated? I am the owner of a vessel and I work on several other vessels. I came to
your website to check the accuracy of our information on. There doesn't seem to be
anything newer than 1999?
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MARS is updated on a weekly basis, normally
every Monday morning. All
notifications, sent by an administration, are treated within a week of
receipt. Therefore, if a station and/or particular information is not found on this site, the
station and/or data has not yet been notified by the responsible administration or
is still in the processing stage. Please consult on the following
Monday. If the station is still not found, contact your administration
and request them to notify the station to the ITU.
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I have a customer
vessel and I need to know what publications are required to be
carried onboard to satisfy the requirements of GMDSS.
Please advise if the ITU Radio Regulations is also required. I already
have the following list of publications:
1) List of Ship Stations
2) List of Coast Stations
3) Radio Determination
4) List of Call Signs
5) Manual for Use by Maritime Mobile Service and Satellite Service
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Please be advised that the
Radio Regulations is not required to be carried on board ships.
However all the other publications are required.
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| I would like to receive the list of country codes to inform our customer how
to register their 406MHz EPIRBs. Thank you
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| Country codes for 406MHz EPIRBs are
based on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Maritime
Identification Digit (MID) country code. These codes can be found on ITU's Glad website at : http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/go/glad/
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| Where can I find the "MID" (Maritime Identification Digits) for a
country code?
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All data concerning MIDs allocated to a country, call sign
series, country codes can be found on ITU's Glad website at : http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/go/glad/
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| I notice on the "Ship Particulars"
screen codes and abbreviations. Where can I find their definitions?
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Definitions of all codes and abbreviations, shown on the
"Ship Particulars" screen, can be found
at: http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/terrestrial/mars/help/index.html
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| Why can't I find the estimated time of arrival (ETA) of a vessel?
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Please be advised that the ITU ship station database contains only the
particulars of ship stations and not information concerning the movement of
ships. We therefore are unable to provide you with the ETA of the ship
mentioned.
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| It would be useful to have a list
of coastal station MMSI as well as NBDP service coastal radio stations in Europe. Can I
find this information on this website?
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For a listing of
particulars of all coast stations ,
you may consult the ITU Service Publication
"List of Coast stations and Special Service Stations".
In order to procure this
Service Publication, please contact our sales service.
The email address is: sales@itu.int.
On the other hand, if you wish to find information concerning coast
stations for a particular country, you can retrieve this data by
consulting the coast station search facility provided on this site at:
http://www.itu.int/online/mms/mars/coast/coast_search.sh
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| Data retrieved is incorrect, how can it be corrected?
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| I notice that there are errors in
the recorded details about my ship station. Can I notify you the
corrections and if not what should I do?
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| The ITU is mandated to accept
information only from National Telecommunications Administrations. All errors
that are observed on this site should be brought to the administration,
that has jurisdiction over the station.
You are therefore requested to contact your administration and
request them to transmit the correct data
to the ITU.
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| I note that some information associated with my yacht is not
included in your register: max number of persons, radar & portable VHF
radio. Please can you advise how I can have this information added, as I
understand that your records could be consulted to aid a search & rescue
operation.
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| I note that in the ship query section the details that
display for my ship Call-Sign are incomplete and actually the ship name is
incorrectly spelt.
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| My boat is listed as \"Wind Song\" instead of the
proper title of \"Windsong\". How can I get this cleared up?
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| I have owned a ship station since November 2003, but the
name still shown is of the previous owner. How do I go about getting it changed
to my ownership name?
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| I visited you website to check if my MMSI and EPIRB were listed. I found our
vessel and related info, but there was no reference to the EPIRB registration.
Is there something I need to do to ensure that our EPIRB is also listed under
our vessel?
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| I have been checking to see if a change to my ship station
particulars have been updated. I have registered a new name (and obtained a
current license disk). However, the Ship Station Particulars still shows the
"old name".
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| All errors or omissions of data,
that are observed on this site, are to be
brought to the attention of the responsible Telecommunications
administration.
As all amendments, to the MARS database, should be transmitted to the ITU through official
channels (i.e. the administration having jurisdiction over the station
in question), users should contact their respective administrations and request them to notify the correct data
to the ITU.
Upon receipt of the amendments the MARS database will be updated.
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Search,
but cannot find the vessel on your website
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| Can you comment on 1. Why my
vessel does not appear on your list and 2. What I must do to correct
this?
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| I tried to search under Vessel Name for a number of vessels, which I know do
have EPIRBs. I could not find any EPIRB ID associated with the vessel name. Can
you tell me if your database is 1. Current, or 2. Whether there might be a
reason that these EPIRB ID numbers do not appear on your database.
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| I have a vessel that has a MMSI number and Ship Calling number issued by my
licensing administration, but my vessel does not appear on your MARS web site
"Search for Ship Particulars"?
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| I use your site to search for a ship\'s name using its MMSI as sole
identifier. I find that quite a few vessels do not appear to have their MMSI
number on your data base. Why is it that you have some ships listed but not
others?
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| In 2004 I received a Ship Radio Station certificate which
assigned my vessel an MMSI number. In visiting your website I find that my vessel is not listed and that the
MMSI number is assigned to another vessel. I thought that MMSI numbers are
intended to be unique.
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| When I use your search engine to locate my MMSI number for my boat, it does
not locate my MMSI number???
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| I recently sold my
vessel and purchased a new vessel. I have notified the radio
communications people but this has had no effect on my new vessel being
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| I have a vessel that does not have a MMSI number and when I put in the call
sign it comes up with another vessel on the your web site. What is your
procedure for this. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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| Data concerning all registered
ship stations, if they have been notified to the ITU, can be retrieved
from the MARS database, .
In case, based on a search criteria, a particular ship
station is not found, it should be understood that this station has
not been notified to the ITU.
In such a case, users should contact their respective administrations and request them to notify the
missing information
to the ITU.
Users are reminded that "all omissions
should be brought to the attention of the Telecommunication Administration
having jurisdiction over the station concerned, so that the appropriate
amendments can be transmitted to the ITU through official channels."
As soon as the information is received from this source, MARS will be updated.
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How do I
register my vessel
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| I would like to make sure my vessel is registered with MARS in the
International Database but cannot find out how to complete this task.
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| Please advise how I would add vessels to your web site?
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| I am part of an organization that supports Pacific Class Patrol Vessels
throughout the South West Pacific. We have fitted many of these vessels with
GMDSS capable radios, and obviously MMSI identifier numbers. These come from
each country, however when I go to the register they do not appear. How or who
do I go to to try and ensure the MMSI's are registered. Any help would be
appreciated.
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| As owner of a pleasure yacht I was wondering how to add information to your
database when it concerns my ship. Do I simply send the ITU the information or
is that the responsibility of the telecommunication bureau? I noticed that another
yacht showed much more information. That is what started me thinking.
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| I am trying to find out how to change the ship\'s name for
my MMSI / Call sign. Can you redirect me to the correct place.
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| Data that figures in the MARS
database can only be transmitted to the ITU through official channels,
the official channel being the administration having jurisdiction over
the station concerned.
Therefore, users should contact their respective administrations and request them to notify the
relevant data
to the ITU. Upon receipt of this notification, this database will be updated.
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| Download/purchase data found on MARS
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| I would like to know if the MARS database is available on cd-rom and if it
is, how i can obtain this cd-rom?
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| Is there a way to get the entire database on CD or be downloaded? I am a
person who loves to listen to SW radio, and listening to ships at sea, and would
love to be able to get a database of the callsigns.
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| Kindly advise whether the ITU has, issues or sells a database (electronic or
otherwise) of CALL SIGNS issued by a state to its vessels?
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| This site is not available on a
CD-Rom. MARS is an online retrieval system that allows users to retrieve
information based on a single search criteria.
There exists a CD-Rom containing all ITU registered ship stations. This
CD-Rom forms part of the ITU Service Publication "List of Ship
Stations and Maritime Mobile Service Identity Assignments", which is also made up of a
booklet. For more details
and in order to procure this publication please visit our website
http://www.itu.int/pub/R-SP-LM/en
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How
do I get access to the emergency contact data
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| How could we register to obtain Contact Information on ships in your MARS
Database.
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| I am a senior search and rescue officer. During a response to a DSC Alert to MMSI I attempted to access the emergency contact for this MMSI. I did not
have a user name or password to obtain access. Please a dvise if Rescue
Coordination Centres are eligible for this access.
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| I\'m writing to inquire about getting access to emergency contact information
in your on-line MARS ship station database. While looking up a ship\'s call sign
in the database, I noted that users can link to emergency contact information,
however, that link requires a username and password.
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| Unable to get through the EMG Contacts in this site.
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Information provided in the Emergency Contact
field is restricted and access is only granted to Administrations. It
is the responsibility of administrations to grant the appropriate
access privileges to the Rescue and Coordination Centers and other
entities under their jurisdiction.
Users should therefore contact their administration for further
clarification.
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| Accounting Authority Identification Code (AAIC)
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| Can you advice me where I can find a complete list over AAIC
(Accounting Authorities Identification Codes)?
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| Could you provide me with a list of all the accounting
authorities from AA01 through ZW01?
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The complete list of AAICs, recognized by the ITU, is
published in the List of Ship Stations and Maritime Mobile Service Identity
Assignments (List V). In order to procure this
Service Publication, please contact our sales service.
The email address is: sales@itu.int.
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| What is an AAIC?
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The accounting authority acts as a billing intermediary
between the maritime mobile station and service providers.
Accounting authorities came into existence to reduce the number of bills, both
issued by Service Providers and received by ship owners and which required
extensive administrative effort to progress, e.g. identify calls, convert call
charges in various currencies and reconcile charges.
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| How do I register as an AAIC?
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Please we want to register as an Accounting
Authority in our country.
Please what are the requirements needed by a company to be qualified
for this.
Thank you for your usual co-operation and looking forward to reading
from you soonest.
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Contact your Administration, as an accounting authority must
be registered with their Administration. For more information concerning
Accounting Authorities refer to Annex A of ITU-T Recommendation D.90.
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| In the Particulars of Administrations and Geographical
screen, I notice under the title AAIC two groups of AAICs. What is the
difference between the AAIC(s) a: b: groups ?
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1. Group a: - All registered Accounting Authorities recognized
by an Administration, which are either based within that Administration's
country or in another country to have responsibility for maritime mobile
stations which it has licensed.
2. Group b: - All accounting authorities, based within the Administration's,
regardless of whether or not the accounting authority concerned is responsible
for maritime mobile stations licensed by that Administration.
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| My company is an ISP and now has PSA status. We would very
much like to apply for accounting authority status Please be kind enough to
supply some information/application?
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Refer to Annex A of ITU-T Recommendation D.90,
which deals with Accounting Authorities.
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| I need contact details of all Inmarsat accounting
authorities.
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Please contact Inmarsat
for assistance.
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| Where can I find the complete address of an AAIC?
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The complete address of an AAIC, recognized by the ITU, is
published in the List of Ship Stations and Maritime Mobile Service Identity
Assignments (List V). In order to procure this
Service Publication, please contact our sales service.
The email address is: sales@itu.int.
You can also find this information on the MARS home page. Choose "Particulars of
Accounting Authority Identification Codes (AAICs)".
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| MMSI
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Could you please provide me with the following information.
A. A breakdown on
the nine didget numbering system used to form an MMSI number.
b. How is the
issuing of these numbers controlled.
c. What agency is responsible for, and has
the authority to, enforce MMSI numbering integrity.
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| A - The 9-digit code constituting a
ship station identity is formed as follows: M1I2D3X4X5X6X7X8X9,
wherein: M1I2D3 represent the maritime identification digits and X is
any figure from 0 to 9.
B & C - When a station in the maritime mobile service or
the maritime mobile-satellite service is required to use maritime
mobile service identities, the responsible administration shall assign
the identity to the station in accordance with the provisions
described in Nos. 19.100 to 19.126 of the Radio Regulations; in so
doing, it should take into account the relevant ITU-R and ITU-T
Recommendations.
Also consult BR
Circular letter CM/04
- "Assignment of Maritime Mobile
Service Identities"
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| Please provide me information on how to register my MMSI number in the ITU
international MARS database.
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| Please could you give us an MMSI number to program an
EPIRB.
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| MMSI number request for EPIRB
programming
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| MMSI numbers are assigned to a station by the Telecommunication Administration
having jurisdiction over the station concerned and not by the ITU.
Users should therefore contact their respective administrations for
more relevant information.
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| When a vessel changes name, does the MMSI number change?
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If the vessel remains with flag of
registration of one administration, the MMSI number should not change
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