Passage Planning Guide, Baltic: Danish Straits (PPG – Baltic, 2025–26 Edition)
S$708.14
2025
This publication is an essential resource for ships navigating the Danish Straits and provides guidance to aid Masters and navigating officers in the creation of passage plans for the transit.
The guidance applies in either direction through the Straits via the Great Belt and the Sound and includes an overview of the navigational references for each leg of the routes.
In cooperation with DanPilot and BIMCO, this new edition has been fully revised to incorporate the latest guidance and practical advice for ships transiting the region, with reference to important information such as pilotage, anchorages, reporting requirements and traffic.
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This Guide provides information on essential passage planning practice, including elements local to the Danish Straits, to help navigating officers compile an effective passage plan. It includes practical guidance for the transit, with reference to traffic, pilotage, anchorages, tidal streams and climate, reporting requirements, bridge clearances, etc.
Annotated chartlets, which now feature satellite imagery, are provided for each leg of the transits of the Great Belt and the Sound, illustrating aids to navigation and potential hazards to shipping.
The Guide illustrates ?hotspot? areas where high vigilance is required and lists the pre-emptive measures that should be taken by the ship. Also included are a number of case studies that examine the causes of various groundings and collisions in the Straits.
This new edition now includes a section on guidance for Masters, which provides a helpful overview of important information for arriving ships, such as pilotage, communication, bunkering and STS operations. Significant updates and additions have been made to information regarding reporting systems and requirements, pilot ladder arrangements, traffic in the Straits and the Fehmarnbelt Construction Project.
In preparation for this new edition, Witherbys has worked in consultation with DanPilot, the pilot service of the Danish State, to fully revise and update the Guide.
Witherbys
Witherbys titles are developed using scripts developed by technical experts that are peer reviewed within work groups. Typically, they seek to improve understanding of the regulations, recommendations and guidelines issued by Industry.
Witherbys staff have significant expertise in the fields of navigation and hazardous cargoes as well as in the presentation of complex subjects in a graphic and easy to understand manner.
DanPilot
The pilots of DanPilot are easily recognised by the crown adorning the uniform, symbolising that DanPilot is the pilot service of the Danish state. All pilots are approved and certified by the Danish Maritime Authority and possess a solid background from the merchant marine.
BIMCO
BIMCO is the world's largest direct-membership organisation for shipowners, charterers, shipbrokers and agents. In total, around 60% of the world's merchant fleet is a BIMCO member, measured by tonnage (weight of the unloaded ships).
The organisation has NGO status and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, with offices in Athens, Singapore and Shanghai.
With around 1900 member companies across 120 countries, from the largest shipowners in the world to small local port agents and law firms, BIMCO represents a wide range of maritime companies and organisations.
BIMCO's goal is to secure a level playing field for the global shipping industry. BIMCO therefore works to promote and secure global standards and regulations for the maritime sector. The organisation's century long effort into creating standard contracts and clauses is an expression of that aim.