Welcome to SMCP Online

SMCP Online: a course in maritime communication.

With the help of this internetsite, we will try and make you familiar with how to communicate with your colleagues, while you are doing your professional duties at sea.

We will give you all the do's and don'ts and will supply you with all the Standard Marine Communication Phrases you should know. Or rather: we teach you the rules of SMCP and all the new words you need to know to be able to communicate at sea.

We will also give you all sorts of excercises to check your knowledge of the SMCP

When you have completed this course:

  • You will know the rules behind the use of SMCP and closed loop communication.

  • You wil be familiar with most words used in maritime radio communication.

  • You wil be able to understand intership and intraship radio communication.

  • You will be able to perform intership and intraship radio communication.

Welcome on board and... Good luck.

Sources of materials used in the making of SMCP.online:

  • All the shown videomaterial on this site is taken from and can also be found on Youtube.com

  • All the photograpic illustrations used for this site were downloaded from Pixabay.com

  • Some materials used on this site were made with the help of H5P

Other sources used for this site:

  • Model Course 3.17 Maritime English. International Maritime Organization (IMO) London, 2015 ed.

  • STCW: a guide for seafarers. [Electronic resource] / International transport workers’ federation. – London, UK. 2001. – Available from : http://www.imo.org/en/Publications.

  • P.C. van Kluijven et al : IMO Standard Marine Communication Phrases. Nederlands- Engels. Alk en Heijnen, 2014.

  • P.C. van Kluijven: The International Maritime Language Programme. 3rd ed. 2002.

  • Internetsite met SMCP content: https://puc.overheid.nl/nsi/doc/PUC_1418_14/1/