Voyage planning process and weather

The main purpose of this monograph is to illustrate the modern voyage planning process implemented using paper or electronic navigation charts and to show the location of the weather at all stages of the voyage planning process. The monograph contains four chapters, of which the first generally deals with the voyage planning process, while the next three chapters focus on and legal recommendations of the process, sources of weather information, weather and ice conditions in the planning process and weather in voyage stages. The process of voyage planning has been illustrated with many figures showing the author’s own studies and these have no references (from the Introduction).