Harbour Master
Harbour Masters
Worldwide there are approximately 3,000 merchant ports and the work of the Harbour Master can vary widely from country to country and from port to port even within the same country.

Kongsberg Norcontrol provides integrated VTS systems, Local Port Service systems and Port security systems.
Kongsberg Norcontrol delivers, develops and manufactures information systems for maritime domain awareness. Building on more than 40 years of experience as an expert on situational awareness, we have delivered over 250 maritime surveillance systems worldwide. We take pride in having our focus set on our customers and will go above and beyond to deliver on time; always.
C-Scope is Kongsberg Norcontrol’s 7th generation situational awareness solution, which covers our customers’ needs within safety, security and efficiency in the maritime domain. C-Scope provides ultimate situational awareness for operations and strategic planning for ports authorities, coastal administrations, offshore operators, inland waterways authorities and military organizations.
Kongsberg Norcontrol; shaping the future of maritime domain awareness.
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CHIRP Maritime
There is an introduction to Maritime Confidential Incident Reporting to be found here: www.chirpmaritime.org otherwise known as CHIRP.
Each quarter CHIRP publishes a journal Maritime FEEDBACK, and edition No 64 was issued in August 2021. See here: https://www.chirpmaritime.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/MFB-64-August-2021-72dpi-RGB-for-online.pdf
At the same time CHIRP issued its106-page Annual Digest of Reports and Insight Articles 2020.
This is available for download here: https://www.chirpmaritime.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Annual-digest-2020-72dpi-RGB-online-edition-v4-2.pdf
MAIB
On 1 October the (UK) Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) safety digest 2/2021 was published. This provides a collection of lessons learned from marine accidents and their investigation. This latest collection of cases (volume 2 of 2021) details accidents involving vessels from the merchant, fishing and recreational sectors.