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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.

Permitted as from: 
10/10/2007
Registrant: 
EU
Physical link: 
AIS
Message number (0=VDES-VDE): 
6
DAC or VPFI: 
200
FI / Message ID: 
55
State: 
in force
Number of slots (max): 
1
Last modified: 
16/03/2023 - 16:13
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