Initial Supply for New Buildings

Ask the experts to provide you with all the nautical charts and publications needed for newbuildings, keeping your vessel legal, avoiding unnecessary purchases and saving time and money.

You provide the vessel type, size and trading pattern and we design the chart outfit for you.

Nautical Charts are professionally packaged in high quality canvas folio covers. Publications are delivered fully updated with cumulative update packs.

The full index of products supplied, along with a customised correction log, are presented in a ring binder for monitoring of new editions and ISM compliance.

Widest Stock Availability

Kelvin Hughes has the largest stock holding of any chart agent, world-wide. Over 20,000 individual stock items are monitored and updated on a daily basis. This wide stock range delivers unrivalled, short turnaround times, even for large orders.

Fully-updated Nautical Charts and Publications

NP’s are supplied up-to-date, using either Kelvin Hughes’ unique loose-leaf service or customised supplements. Other publications are supplied with relevant supplements and amendments, up to the date of supply.

Coverage Design

Expert assistance, ranging from full coverage design based on information on ship type, trading routes, size and Flag State to validation of your chosen list of navigation charts and publications based on the same.

Newbuild Transit Folios

Especially for large new building programmes, Kelvin Hughes offers a separate transit folio, which can be used by each vessel to transit from the shipyard to its normal trading area. Kelvin Hughes maintains the transit folio until required by subsequent vessels.

Electronic Charts and Publications

Customer support for ENCs, ARCS, AVCS and C-Map chart data is provided by a specialist team, that draws from extensive experience in producing electronic navigation equipment. The service includes management of licences, permits and update disc supply, as well as advice on safe reduction of paper charts.

Flags

No need to shop around, flags based on the ship's normal trading pattern can be supplied in the initial supply package.

Chart Room Instruments

Our 'Chartroom New Build' kit contains all the essential instruments for navigation and chart-correction on-board. This can be supplied as an option to the Initial Supply package.