Number of persons on board
Introduction/Additional information:
This message should be sent by inland vessels only, to inform about the number of persons (passengers, crew, shipboard personnel) on board. The message should be sent with binary message 6 preferably on event or on request using IAI binary functional message 2.
Alternatively the Standard IMO binary message “number of persons on board” (IAI number 16) could be used.
Registrant:
EU
DAC:
200
FI:
55
State:
in force
Number of slots (max):
1
Permitted as from:
10/10/2007
Details:
| Parameter | Bit | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Message ID | 6 | Identifier for Message 6; always 6 |
| Repeat Indicator | 2 | Used by the repeater to indicate how many times a message has been repeated. Default = 0; 3 = do not repeat any more |
| Source ID | 30 | MMSI number of source station |
| Sequence Number | 2 | 0 – 3 |
| Destination ID | 30 | MMSI number of destination station |
| Retransmit Flag | 1 | Retransmit Flag should be set upon retransmission: 0 = no retransmission = default; 1 = retransmitted. |
| Spare | 1 | Not used, should be set to zero. Reserved for future use. |
| Application Identifier | 16 | As described in Table 2,6 |
| Number of crew members on board | 8 | 0 – 254 crew members, 255 = unknown = default |
| Number of passengers on board | 13 | 0 – 8190 passengers, 8191 = unknown = default |
| Number of shipboard personnel on board | 8 | 0 – 254 shipboard personnel, 255 = unknown = default |
| Spare | 51 | Not used, should be set to zero. Reserved for future use. |
| 168 | Occupies 1 slot |