3 Overview of the LRIT system
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3 Overview of the LRIT system

  3.1 The LRIT system provides for the global identification and tracking of ships.

  3.2 The LRIT system consists of the shipborne LRIT information transmitting equipment, the Communication Service Provider(s), the Application Service Provider(s), the LRIT Data Centre(s), including any related Vessel Monitoring System(s), the LRIT Data Distribution Plan and the International LRIT Data Exchange. Certain aspects of the performance of the LRIT system are reviewed or audited by an LRIT Coordinator acting on behalf of all Contracting Governments.

  3.3 LRIT information is provided to Contracting Governments and Search and Rescue services footnote entitled to receive the information, upon request, through a system of National, Regional, Cooperative and International LRIT Data Centres, using where necessary, the International LRIT Data Exchange.

  3.4 The obligations of ships to transmit LRIT information and the rights and obligations of Contracting Governments and of Search and Rescue services to receive LRIT information are established in regulation V/19-1.

Parent topic: Annex – Guidance on the Implementation of the LRIT System
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