Brazil P&I, our correspondents in Santos, Brazil, has provided us with the following information.

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As a member of SOLAS Convention, Brazil is committed to assist vessels in emergency situation at SAR area under Brazilian responsibility. In order to control the movement of vessels in this area the navy developed an eletrocnic system called SISTRAM (Sistema de informações do tráfego marítimo/ “Maritme Traffic information System”), under the responsibility of the Maritime Traffic Naval Control Command (COMCONTRAM). 

Vessels sailing under foreign flags, not chartered to Brazilian owners, are invited to report routes and eventual occurrences while sailing in the Brazilian jurisdictional waters (200 miles from the coast) and obligated to report routes  and  any eventual  navigation   facts  while  sailing  in  the Brazilian Territory (12 miles from the coast).  

Vessels sailing with the Brazilian flag and the ones chartered by Brazilian shipowners are obligated to report routes and navigation facts anywhere in the world.

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We are also informed that implementation of the SISTRAM System is postponed until 15^th January 2014 and that vessels are invited to report routes/accidents before this date by email to controle@cotram.mar.mil.br

Please find full alert attached below.

Update 18 February 2014

Following a meeting this week at the Naval Control of Shipping Command at the Brazilian Navy´s headquarters in Rio, we were informed that the implementation of the Sistram IV, system developed by the Brazilian Navy to comply with Solas Convention in attending emergency situations at the area covered by Brazil, has been postponed until further notice due to problems that some vessels have reported in accessing the system through the on board internet.

Circular-SISTRAM-Marine-Traffic-Information-System.pdf

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