SHIP AIS DATA INPUT

[teachers]

I am totally reliant on ship ais, Marine traffic, to photograph ships.

Please correct me if i am wrong, i presume the destination data input is done by the ship.

Here are some recent examples of destinations,

CSN = Garston
BHK = Bromborough, can anyone explain those.
GSA = Glensanda
SEF = Seaforth, a new one for me which took a few minutes to guess.
LDY = Londonderry
NPT = Newport
MSC = Manchester ship canal.

A ship in the canal today just moved berth from Eastham to Runcorn and updated her ais immediately and gave the exact destination, a number of ships this last week are giving Liverpool as destination when they are bound for the canal, it surprises me when some ships give fully spelt destination and others are barely understandable.

[Captain Ted]

The input is done by the crew, mostly officer in charge of Navigation which is usually the 2nd Mate. However there is a list with all port abbrevations, but to my knowledge it is not mandatory following it in the case of input to AIS.

[victor radio74]

Hi, look at this and related to the UK code list here
rgds

[teachers]

Thanks captain Ted for your explanation and Victor for your UK code list, now i know why some ships for Garston and Bromborough display these codes.