Maritime navigation

Navigation guidance, training, equipment, aids, charts, reporting and broadcasting hazards and lighthouses.

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Services

• MoU data request form (MSF 5369)

  Application form to request marine survey data.

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Guidance and regulation

• MGN 379 (M+F) Amendment 1: use of electronic navigational aids
  • Guidance
  • 9 January 2024
  • Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• MGN 315 (M) Keeping a safe navigational watch on merchant vessels
  • Guidance
  • 1 February 2006
  • Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• MGN 610 (M+F) Amendment 1 SOLAS chapter V – guidance on the merchant shipping (safety of navigation) regulations 2020
  • Guidance
  • 13 February 2025
  • Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• MGN 369 (M+F) – Amendment 1 Navigation Safety: Navigation practices relevant to restricted visibility
  • Guidance
  • 21 March 2024
  • Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• MGN 324 (M+F) Amendment 2 navigation: watchkeeping safety – use of Very High Frequency (VHF) radio and Automatic Identification System (AIS)
  • Guidance
  • 22 March 2022
  • Maritime and Coastguard Agency

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News and communications

• Updating light dues payment rates
  • 9 March 2026
  • Department for Transport
  • Written statement
• Maritime Innovation Hub coming soon
  • 22 September 2025
  • Maritime and Coastguard Agency
  • Press release
• Championing maritime excellence: MCA leads UK Flag Forum 2025
  • 8 July 2025
  • Maritime and Coastguard Agency
  • Press release
• High Court throws out appeal against River Thames conviction
  • 22 April 2024
  • Environment Agency
  • Press release
• General Lighthouse Fund: light dues rate update
  • 9 March 2023
  • Department for Transport
  • Written statement

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Policy papers and consultations

• Consultation on the review of Marine Guidance Note (MGN) 372
  • 7 November 2022
  • Maritime and Coastguard Agency
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 19 August 2022
• Review of marine guidance notes and methodology for offshore renewable energy installations
  • 15 July 2022
  • Maritime and Coastguard Agency
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 28 April 2020
• Harwich Haven Authority: extension of pilotage area
  • 29 October 2020
  • Department for Transport
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 10 October 2020
• Ilfracombe Harbour: pilotage function removal order
  • 25 March 2019
  • Department for Transport
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 17 February 2019
• Consultation on the Merchant Shipping (Safety of Navigation) Regulations
  • 16 January 2019
  • Maritime and Coastguard Agency
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 20 November 2018

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• MCA: Annual report and accounts 2017 to 2018
  • 19 July 2018
  • Maritime and Coastguard Agency
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• Maritime &
  Coastguard
  Agency
• Department
  for Transport
• Department
  for Environment,
  Food & Rural Affairs
• Foreign, Commonwealth
  & Development Office

• UK Hydrographic Office

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• Environment Agency