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:

Physical link:

AIS

Message number (0=VDES-VDE):

DAC or VPFI:

200

FI / Message ID:

State:

in force

Number of slots (max):

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