eNotices

eNotices is a free subscription service that enables you to receive the latest navigational safety critical notifications about those paper charts you have nominated and electronic publications via email.

What is included in eNotices?

This service is useful for all mariners whether they have a small set of charts and publications, or the entire catalogue, as only the notices that apply for current paper chart editions are emailed to you. All you need is a working email account and you are on your way to receiving the latest navigational safety critical Notices to Mariners (NtM) automatically.

ENC users should strongly consider using eNotices a means of receiving update notifications for Australian Hydrographic Publications (AHP) to prompt downloading the latest version.

eNotices includes all Permanent, Temporary and Preliminary NtM for your nominated Australian, Australian Antarctic Territory, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste charts, as well as AHP, supplied by text email.

Block updates, tracings and cumulative lists are not included in eNotices, however, links are included in the emails. This allows eNotices email file sizes to remain small compared to the full fortnightly Australian NtM, and therefore is more easily downloaded at sea.

How do I subscribe to eNotices?

Self service eNotices subscriptions and updates to existing accounts are temporarily unavailable. 

Existing eNotices customers will still receive fortnightly eNotices emails. 

If you would like to subscribe, or make changes to an existing subscription, please contact eNotices.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

How does eNotices work?

During the subscription process, users create their portfolio of charts and publications by selecting from a scrollable list. Then, as each edition of Australian NtM is published, subscribers are automatically emailed only those NtM that affect their portfolio. Users of electronic AHP can use Notices that affect their publications as a prompt to download the latest version or update.

Where can I find updates to electronic Australian Hydrographic Publications?

The latest versions of the following publications are available as PDF downloads from our Resource Library:

Simply re-download the PDF versions from the respective publication page. At the time of download they will always include the latest NtM updates.

How else can I obtain Notices to Mariners updates?

Correcting individual paper charts: If you want access to NtM on a casual basis and know the AUS, PNG or SLB chart number you are after, you can use our Australian Chart Index (ACI). The paper chart list provides details of the latest update status for each chart, and by selecting ‘details – view’ you can access every individual Notice affecting the current edition of that chart. This option is recommended if you wish to periodically correct a small number of charts and need to know which notices are applicable to these specific charts.

Correcting paper publications or all your paper charts each fortnight: If you want to update your portfolio of charts and publications on a regular basis, download the fortnightly NtM PDF edition by going to our Notices to Mariners page. This option is recommended if you wish to regularly update all affected charts and publications in response to each edition of NtM.

Important notice

Each edition of NtM includes all significant information affecting AHO products which the AHO has become aware of since the last edition. All reasonable efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information, including third party information, on which these updates are based. The AHO regards third parties from which it receives information as reliable, however the AHO cannot verify all such information and errors may therefore exist. The AHO does not accept liability for errors in third party information.