The world’s leading portfolio of official paper charts

The range includes:

Standard Nautical Charts – the world’s most recognised, trusted and
widely used official charts
Maritime Security Charts – a key voyage-planning tool with the latest
security-critical information
Mariners’ Routeing Guides – clear overviews of restricted sea room in some
of the world’s busiest and most complex shipping areas
Ocean Routeing Charts – provides shipping routes and distances between
major ports, including important information on seasonal changes
Planning Charts – a range of small-scale charts offering high-level overviews
of oceans and major ports
Gnomonic Charts – for plotting the shortest route between two points in
great circle navigation
Why ADMIRALTY paper charts?

A constant source of information you can trust – today our

cartographers continue to set the global standard of dependable
chart coverage where you need it.
As an integral part of the portfolio, our extensive range of planning charts are designed to work alongside
official navigational charts, whether SNCs or ENCs, to help improve situational awareness on the bridge.

Recognised quality worldwide: Weekly updates and new editions

By delivering accuracy and dependability for over 200 ADMIRALTY Notices to Mariners (NMs) ensure
years, we have built a hard-earned reputation of trust ADMIRALTY charts are maintained and up-to-date with
and respect among the maritime industry. the latest safety-critical navigational information.
With our primary aim of saving and protecting lives at We’re constantly receiving, assessing and processing
sea, our strict quality control has made our paper charts new information to update our charts, with a special
so popular that they are now instantly recognisable on focus on buoys, shipwrecks, traffic separation and other
bridges of most ships trading internationally. safety-related features.
Most navigators on the seas today have been trained The weekly NMs can be downloaded for free from our
using ADMIRALTY paper charts, and this familiarity website, or the paper bulletin can be bought from your
gives further reassurance and confidence on the bridge. ADMIRALTY chart agent.

Worldwide coverage Other paper charts available

We provide the most comprehensive, official paper World Time Zone Charts, Load Line Regulations,
chart coverage of the world’s commercial shipping Co-Tidal Charts, Astronomical Charts, Magnetic
routes and main ports. Variation Charts, Meteorological Charts and Diagrams,
Ocean Plotting Sheets etc.
As shipping activity and port development increases,
the need for accurate, up-to-date navigational Quick Response (QR) codes
information is even more important than ever before.
The UKHO is committed to updating and extending QR codes are being introduced to ADMIRALTY paper
our full product range as we respond to these emerging charts so you can quickly check whether individual charts
trade patterns, ensuring new and developing shipping have the latest NMs correctly applied. Scan the code and
activity is carried out safely and with confidence. the link will take you to the online NMs for that chart.

Right scales to meet mariners’ needs

ADMIRALTY charts are produced in a range of scales,
and designed for a particular purpose, whether it is
passage planning, ocean crossings, coastal navigation
or entering port. The mariner should always use the
largest scale chart appropriate for their purpose.

The ADMIRALTY chart QR codes allow you to quickly

check the current list of NMs by specific chart.
ADMIRALTY Standard Nautical Chart Maritime Security Chart
1892 covering the Western part of the Dover Strait. Q6099 covers the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea.

Standard Nautical Charts (SNCs) Maritime Security Charts

Over 3,500 ADMIRALTY Charts – the most Aid to planning safe passages
comprehensive official global paper series delivering
quality and integrity for over 200 years. This expanding range of security charts help mariners to
plan the safest possible passages, keeping ships, crew and
Coverage cargo safe.
Mariners can view and add this additional level of
To ensure that mariners have the most dependable security-related information by chart.
coverage for major routes and ports, the UKHO works
closely with international hydrographic offices to Risks to maritime security
include up-to-date port developments and changing
trading patterns. Information that represents a danger to the security of
navigation includes piracy, terrorism, embargoes, mine
Navigation or back-up warfare, exclusion zones, blockades and illegal fishing.
All ADMIRALTY SNCs comply with SOLAS regulations, Additional information includes:
and can be used for navigation on the majority of ships
sailing the world’s oceans. General security advice, self protective measures,
Whichever official charts you plan to use, check that security procedures and regional contacts, as well as
the appropriate State Authorities agree beforehand. routeing and reporting requirements implemented by
military or security forces.

Official, validated government information

Chart information is gathered by the UKHO through our
work with NATO and other government organisations,
ensuring the most accurate, up-to-date, official and
verified information is available.
The latest, free information can be accessed online
from Security-Related Information to Mariners (SRIM)
www.ukho.gov.uk/MSI
Mariners’ Routeing Guide Ocean Routeing Chart
5502 covers the busy Malacca and Singapore Straits. 5124(8) North Atlantic for the month of August, showing the
navigationally-challenging Caribbean hurricane season.

Mariners’ Routeing Guides Ocean Routeing Charts

Additional information to help bridge crews navigate Detailing expected weather and ocean conditions
safely through some of the world’s busiest and most to help plan passages for any time of the year.
complex shipping areas.
Coverage
Greater awareness in restricted sea room
Useful for high-level route planning, small-scale charts
When planning to navigate through areas of restricted cover the oceans of the world; North Atlantic, South
passage, whether restricted because of dense traffic, Atlantic, North Pacific, South Pacific and the Indian
dangers or warnings to navigation, limited depths or Ocean.
unfavourable meteorological conditions, verified For areas of dense traffic a new range of larger
additional information can increase situational scale routeing charts provide an additional level
awareness on the bridge, and aid the safety of navigation. of meteorological and currents information.
Used alongside official navigational charts, these
easy-reference guides can reduce the risk of pollution A chart for each month of the year
or damage caused by collisions or groundings.
To cover weather conditions that change throughout
Coverage the year, each region has 12 separate charts.

Providing guidance through traffic separation schemes Specific information includes:

and routeing measures that have been adopted by the
IMO and national authorities. >>Positions of major ports, and recognised shipping
routes and distances between them
The expanding range covers the Malacca and Singapore >>Wind roses with information on wind speed and
Straits, English Channel and Southern North Sea, Baltic direction
Sea and the Gulf of Suez.
>>Frequency and intensity of storms and low visibility
>>Sea and air temperature, air pressure and ice limits
>>Ocean currents
>>Limits of loadline zones
>>Locations of ocean weather ships
Planning Chart Gnomonic Chart
4016 covers the Eastern Atlantic Ocean to Western Pacific 5095 covers the North Atlantic.
Ocean, including the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean.

Planning Charts Gnomonic Charts

A high-level overview of the world, oceans and Operational efficiency
major ports.
To aid great circle navigation, when used alongside
Small scale overviews official navigational charts, gnomonic charts ensure
your ship follows the shortest distance between
This series of ADMIRALTY Planning Charts are two points.
available at very small scales covering ocean
regions and the world. Great circle navigation

Major ports Used in passage planning to plot great circle routes as

a straight line between points. Points along the chosen
Ideal for ‘port-to-port’ planning, they show the most track are then applied to a Mercator projection. The
significant ports throughout each region. great circle route is then navigated by following the
rhumb lines from one point to the next.
Series includes:
Chart Natural Coverage
Planning Chart title
No. Scale 1:
4000 The World 45,000,000 There are 15 gnomonic charts covering major ocean
4001 Atlantic and Indian Oceans 27,000,000 regions of the world (except for the equatorial belt).
4002 Pacific Ocean 27,000,000 This includes the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.
4003 South Atlantic Ocean 20,000,000

4004 North Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea 20,000,000

4005 Indian Ocean 20,000,000

4006 Arctic Region 7,500,000

4007 South Pacific Ocean 20,000,000

4008 North Pacific Ocean 20,000,000

4009 Antarctic Region 15,000,000

4015 Atlantic Ocean 20,000,000

4016 Eastern Atlantic Ocean to Western Pacific Ocean including the Mediterranean 20,000,000
Sea and Indian Ocean
Instantly recognisable on bridges of most ships trading
internationally today, and which have been trusted and relied on
for over 200 years.

Planning for the future? Serving our users 24/7, worldwide, 365 days a year
Plan with ADMIRALTY Nautical Products & For more information and advice, contact our global
Services, brought to you by the United Kingdom network of chart agents.
Hydrographic Office. Alternatively, our in-house customer service team
For more world-class, world-leading products and are available day in, day out – whatever the query and
services visit our website www.admiralty.co.uk wherever your journey takes you.

ADMIRALTY Chart Agent contact details:

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