Study On The Inspiration Of Taiwan Strait’s Maritime Support System From MONALISA

The Taiwan Strait is an important international trade channel between the Far East and theSoutheast Asian countries, the only north-south transportation way, and the direct cross-straitchannel in China. It is located in an important strategic position. In recent years, with the rapiddevelopment of maritime transportation and cross-strait exchanges passenger and freighttransport, traffic flow in the Taiwan Strait is gradually increasing, all levels of China’s trafficmanagement departments take great importance to the safety of navigation in Taiwan Strait, andcontinue to make efforts in building and investing in the equipment, personnel, shippingmanagement and maritime security, the maritime department and research institutions are stilldeveloping new technologies and new regulatory approaches to improve the Taiwan Straitwaters maritime regulatory and service capabilities.E-Navigation is a new concept in the field of marine. It will be a new standard of maritimesafety security system, and it represents a new direction of researches on ship navigation safetyand aids to navigation. Since IALA put forward the concept of e-Navigation in2006, IMOadopted and encouraged all countries to develop it actively. The EU implemented MONALISAto further develop motorway of sea in the Baltic Sea and to deploy an e-navigation solution.MONALISA project started in September2010, and it would fulfill EU maritime strategy in theBaltic region.MONALISA project is an integrated maritime engineering. It can not only regulate the shipand crew dynamically but also build a motorway of sea in Baltic by four activities. The firstactivity is dynamic and proactive broadcast of ship’s planned routes with AIS and ECDIS. Thesecond is electronic verification of officer’s certificates. The third is the quality assurance ofhydrographic data on shipping routes and areas. The last one is global sharing of maritime data.MONALISA uses the innovative e-Navigation concept to develop a new generation of Balticmaritime support system which will provide a good model to explore the Taiwan Strait’smaritime support system.This paper studies on the inspirations of the Taiwan Strait’s maritime support system fromMONALISA. At first, it analyses the problems of the exiting maritime support system and thee-Navigation strategy which is an international solution, and then introduce the MONALISAengineering which is an important practice used by EU. Then, it introduces the MonLisa’sbackground and the relationship between MONALISA and e-Navigation. MONALISA is composed of four activities. The paper evaluates the former two activities from the perspectivesof technical architecture, application situation and exiting problems while the last two areintroduced briefly. Moreover, it gives four inspirations, combined with Taiwan Strait’s status,such as proposing a new architecture of Taiwan Strait’s maritime support system, establishing anew approach with sharing routes based the ship regulatory status of Taiwan, developing anAIS-based crew certificate remote identification system, and building the maritime informationservice platform based on information sharing. This paper briefly demonstrates the fourinspirations’ feasibility, and indicates that implementation of them can not only bring somesocial and economic benefits, but also guide the building of Taiwan Strait’s maritime supportsystem to some extent.