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Raise your hand if you think NBDP is more ignored equipment of GMDSS system.
If I was with a group of deck officers right now, I am sure I would see many hands raised. NBDP is surely an ignored equipment.
But it is ignored because NBDP is a dead horse, hardly used and gathering dust at one corner of the bridge.
Even only few coast stations these days have the NBDP facility.
All agreed but if we have this equipment on board, we must know about it. That remains the logic for all the equipments on board.
So in this post, I will go through all that one may have to know about NBDP.
Let’s start.
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About Capt Rajeev Jassal
Capt. Rajeev Jassal has sailed for over 24 years mainly on crude oil, product and chemical tankers. He holds MBA in shipping & Logistics degree from London. He has done extensive research on quantitatively measuring Safety culture onboard and safety climate ashore which he believes is the most important element for safer shipping.
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