NTSB STUDY OF USCG VTS SYSTEM

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NTSB Assesses U.S. Coast Guard’s Vessel Traffic Service System

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 The National Transportation safety Board has released a study intended to to help reduce collisions, allisions, and unintended groundings  involving vessels transiting through U.S. Coast Guard Vessel Traffic Service Areas. If you need back ground information on Vessel Traffic Control Systems (VTS) see our VESSEL TRAFFIC SECTION . The study is titled “An Assessment of the Effectiveness of the U.S. Coast Guard Vessel Traffic Service System” (NTSB/SS-16/01), focused on the performance of the Coast Guard’s VTS system, currently comprised of 12 VTS centers.". The study may be obtained from the National Transportation Safety Board: 490 L'Enfant Plaza, SW, Washington DC 20594. Telephone 202 314-6000 and request "NTSB/SS-16-01) .
  To Read a short explanatory article about the study by MI News Network published in Shipping News click here : Marine Insight