LONG RANGE IDENTIFICATION AND TRACKING OF SHIPS

All ships engaged on international voyage: passenger ships and cargo ships of 300 gross tonnage and above, and Mobile Offshore Drilling Units (MODUs). must be fully compliant with the LRIT regulation that has been inserted in SOLAS V/19-1 by the 1st Radio Survey after 31 December 2008. There is an exemption for ships operating exclusively in sea area A1 from the requirement to transmit LRIT information, since such ships are already fitted with the Automatic Identification System (AIS).