passage planning

Witherbys maintains relationships with Maritime Administrations, Port Authorities and Pilotage Authorities/Organisation's to continually developed update comprehensive Passage Planning Guides to:

Straits of Malacca & Singapore

English Channel, Dover Strait and Southern North Sea

Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait

Panama Canal

Baltic Sea

Turkish Straits

Each of these publications is updated on a regular cycle through workgroups involving Port Authorities, pilot groups, industry representatives and shipping companies. Each workgroup will meet ahead of the update to reflect on changes to regulations or AtoNs in their area and the resultant impact on routing.  During the update cycle, Witherbys' technical advisory team will undertake passages on board merchant ships to verify changes and discuss issues with the officers regularly transiting each route.

Passage Planning Guides for other regions are currently in development.

Free PDF Downloads:

Passage Planning Notes – South of Cairns, Whitsundays and Hydrographers Passage

This free publication is a companion guide to the main passage guide for this region:  ‘Passage Planning Guide – Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait (PPG - GBRTS 2023-24 Edition)’.

The PDF contains waypoints, tabulated passage information and charts for these routes.

Number of Pages: 68
Download Size: 15.2 MB

Useful Information for English Channel, Dover Strait and Southern North Sea

This PDF provides arrival information for the ‘English Channel, Dover Strait and Southern North Sea’

The PDF contains links to the latest reference PDFs for the region, Pilot Boarding Stations for Cherbourg and Brixham, Pre-Entry Bridge Team Meeting checklists and details of incident reporting for ships transiting the Dover Strait. 

Number of Pages: 10
Download Size: 1.6 MB