Enroling in Navelink

By becoming a Navelink user, your organization would gain access to our secure digital communication platform, tailored to the maritime domain, which offers unique identity certificates and protection of your digital information. In addition, you would be able to use our Service Registry to offer your own services to other maritime actors and to consume the maritime services that are gathered in the registry. Moreover, Navelink makes up a community, connecting actors from across the maritime domain.

2023/05/08
No. After you have sent in the enrollment form, we will send you a Service Agreement proposal. You commit to Navelink when signing the Service Agreement.

2022/05/08
The Benefits of Navelink for Maritime Service Providers:

Navelink's services would be of great value to your organization by giving you access to our Service Registry, where maritime services are conveniently gathered in one common marketplace, giving you the opportunity to expand the reach of your own offer. Navelink’s identity management services would increase the security levels of your data transfers, making you a more reliable service provider to actors with high security demands. Navelink’s community, which connects governing agencies, industry and academia, would provide you with insights into the needs of the market and the advances in research, allowing you to constantly improve your services.

Navelink offers several benefits that could be of interest to your organization, including:
  • By using Navelink's Service Registry, you access a platform where your organization can both offer your own services to other maritime actors and consume other maritime services. Everything is conveniently gathered on one common marketplace in the registry.
  • The Service Registry and other features of the Navelink community, such as the Developer Forum and Navelink news updates, increase the visibility and reach of your organization, connecting you with potential clients and partners.
  • Your organization gains increased reliability through secure data transfers. As the need for higher information security grows, it is essential to ensure that the data collected by your maritime service is transmitted securely between the intended parties without any unauthorized access or tampering. With Navelink identity certificates, your organization will be able to guarantee that the data is coming from a legitimate source, be it the vessel, VTS or navigational aid providing the highest level of security and reliability.
  • Your organization gains access to Navelink's Developer Forum, helping you stay up to date with the latest developments around secure digital communication, identity management and data format standards within the maritime domain, as well as the work of Navelink’s users and partners. This is a great forum to present your organization, the work you are doing and your products.
  • Your organization will be part of a valuable information exchange with maritime industry and the top of academia, which can be guiding in your decision-making around the direction of your focus areas, business goals and innovation activities.
  • Navelink is committed to complying with regulations, recommendations, and standards set by maritime authorities, which would help your organization ensure that you are also using the right standards for data formats in the design of your services and other digital information transfers.


Get in touch with us if you would like to explore the possibility of a mutually beneficial relationship between our organizations. Contact us if you have any questions or would like to learn more about how Navelink can benefit your operations.

2023/05/08
The Benefits of Navelink for NGOs and Other Non-Profit Organizations:

Navelink’s community, connecting governing agencies, industry and academia, would provide you with a forum to reach out with your message and find potential supporters. Navelink’s identity management services would be increasing the security levels of your data transfers, making you a more reliable partner for actors with high security demands. Having the data format standardization work covered by Navelink, your organization would be able to focus more time and energy on your mission.

Navelink offers several benefits that could be of interest to your organization, including:
  • Being part of the Navelink community offers your organization the opportunity to connect with other maritime actors and potential supporters of your mission. Navelink is already connecting several industrial companies, research institutes, and maritime authorities, and we are confident that your organization will benefit greatly from being part of this network.
  • Accessing features of the Navelink community, such as the Developer Forum and the Navelink blog, increases the visibility and reach of your organization, connecting you with potential supporters, clients and partners.
  • Your organization gains increased reliability through secure data transfers. Using Navelink’s identity management services offers your organization a reliable and secure way to share digital information with other maritime actors, making it easier for high-security actors to work with your organization.
  • Navelink is committed to complying with regulations, recommendations, and standards set by maritime authorities, which would help your organization ensure that you are also using the right standards for data formats in the design of your services and other digital information transfers. Not having to worry about regulation requirements also frees up valuable time and energy for you to focus on your mission.
  • Navelink is connecting sustainable innovators worldwide. We are encouraging the development and implementation of sustainable and efficient practices in the maritime industry. By using Navelink to securely exchange data and communicate with other maritime actors, our partners can offer their innovative solutions to a wider range of customers. As a Navelink user, your organization would have access to these innovative solutions, and be able to collaborate with our partners to further develop and implement secure, effective and sustainable practices in maritime operations.
  • Navelink facilitates collaboration for sustainable solutions. By working together and sharing resources, the industry as a whole can make progress towards safer, more sustainable, efficient and cost-effective practices. We are working together towards saving lives at sea and reducing the environmental footprint of the maritime domain.


Get in touch with us if you would like to explore the possibility of a mutually beneficial relationship between our organizations. Contact us if you have any questions or would like to learn more about how Navelink can benefit your operations.

2023/05/08
The Benefits of Navelink for Universities and Other Academic Actors:

Both Navelink and our academic partners share a strong interest in promoting innovation and advancing technology in the maritime domain. We are both focused on improving the efficiency, safety, and security of maritime operations, and we recognize the importance of collaboration and partnership in achieving our respective goals.

Navelink offers several benefits that could be of interest to your organization, including:
  • Access to Navelink's secure digital communication platform and identity management systems, which could enhance the level of security for the information exchange carried out by your inventions that are taken to market and being used by your partners, such as AI-powered equipment, multi-machine systems or advanced sensors.
  • Access to Navelink's Test Environment, allowing your organization to test and validate new technologies and concepts related to maritime engineering, logistics, and transport.
  • Collaboration opportunities with other maritime actors who are part of the Navelink community, which could help your organization expand its network and connect with potential partners or supporters for your research.
  • Access to Navelink's Developer Forum, which could help your organization stay up to date with the latest developments in secure digital communication, identity management and data format standards within the maritime domain, as well as the work of Navelink’s users and partners. This is a great forum to present research results to the maritime community.
  • Your organization will be partaking in valuable information exchange with maritime industry leaders, which can be guiding in your decision-making around the direction of further research and innovation activities.
  • Vice versa, your organization gains a forum to inform decision-makers in the maritime industry about ongoing research, enabling you to highlight important needs based on research, and proposing possible directions around focus areas for the industry.
  • Exposure to the latest developments regarding standardization work for secure digital communication, identity management, and data format standards within the maritime domain through Navelink's Developer Forum.
  • Access to internships or other study assignment opportunities to university students within maritime engineering or similar subjects.


Get in touch with us if you would like to explore the possibility of a mutually beneficial relationship between our organizations. Contact us if you have any questions or would like to learn more about how Navelink can benefit your operations.

2023/05/08

Navelink REST API

PKI – Certificates

Yes, you always own your private part of your key that you use when signing data, and you get your public part signed by Navelink.

A signature is created by calculating a checksum and then encrypting this with your private keys, which you always own. These are strongly recommended to be created by you at your own facility, not by anyone else.

The public part of the key pair is signed by Navelink which enables the receiver to verify the signature against Navelink PKI. Navelink can then verify and respond that this is the signed public part of the claimed sender of data. If the checksum matches, the data integrity and sender is verified and authenticated.

When issuing a certificate in Navelink, you are asked if you want to create your keys in your local browser or by Navelink, select Local. You can also create the key pair in another way at your own facility and then make a Certificate Sign Request to Navelink. Either way you avoid sending the private key on Internet.

2022-12-05
You can find the links to the certificates here.

2022-12-05
There are two different ways to check the validity date on your certificate:
  • Through the Management Portal
    1. Logon to Navelink Management Web Portal.
    2. Locate your entity and read the validity date of the certificate.
  • Check using a Windows built-in function
    1. Locate your certificate file and change the file extension from .pem to .cer.
    2. Run the file to open it in Windows certificate application.
    3. Read the content of the certificate.
To renew your certificate:
  1. Logon to Navelink Management Web Portal.
  2. Locate your entity and select Issue Certificate.
  3. Revoke the old certificate with reason "Superseeded".


2022/11/24

Migrating an MCP service to Navelink

Domain name and links to environments are new for Navelink (navelink.org)
Hence, URL to search for service instances and get Organizations are changed.
SSL Certificates for Navelink servers are new and need to be trusted.
Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates are used on Navelink servers.
Root certificate in Identity Registry are new for Navelink instances.
Each issued certificate for identities will have the new Navelink self-signed certificate in its trust chain.
MRN identities are changed from urn:mrn:stm to urn:mrn:mcp
The MRNs on the VIS Technical Design has been changed to:
Navelink DEV: urn:mrn:mcp:service:navelink-dev:navelink:design:vis:rest:2.2
Navelink TEST: urn:mrn:mcp:service:navelink-test:navelink:design:vis:rest:2.2
Navelink OPS: urn:mrn:mcp:service:navelink:navelink:design:vis:rest:2.2


2020/06/23
  1. Enrol in Navelink.
  2. Logon to MCP and download the XML for your Service Instance.
  3. In your XML file, change the ID to a Navelink MRN;
    • Navelink OPS: urn:mrn:mcp:service:navelink:{org}:instance:{name}
    • Navelink TEST: urn:mrn:mcp:service:navelink-test:{org}:instance:{name}
    • Navelink DEV: urn:mrn:mcp:service:navelink-dev:{org}:instance:{name} 
  4. In your XML file, change the ID for implementsServiceDesign
    • Navelink OPS: urn:mrn:mcp:service:navelink:navelink:design:vis:rest:2.2
    • Navelink TEST: urn:mrn:mcp:service:navelink-test:navelink:design:vis:rest:2.2
    • Navelink DEV: urn:mrn:mcp:service:navelink-dev:navelink:design:vis:rest:2.2
  5. Logon to the Navelink Management Portal and search for VIS Technical Design
  6. Create a new instance based on VIS Technical Design
  7. Upload your edited XML file
  8. Upload a document
  9. Issue Certificate
If you want to release your service in the operational environment, you first need to get it approved. Contact info@navelink.org for more information.

2022-12-06
The change of MRN in Identity Registry concerns the identities, hence the service book and possibly authorization data needs to be updated/reloaded.
The UVID (Unique Voyage Number) in the RTZ (vesselVoyage) is not affected by the change from MCP to Navelink. In UVID the MRN urn:mrn:stm will continue to be used.
The MRN identity has also been changed for the VIS Technical Design, so please ensure that this change is reflected in e.g. filter in Find Service.

2023/04/27

Navelink Management Portal

To change the password you have to use the "forgot password" function on the selected environment. This will send an email to the email account associated with your Navelink user with a temporary password. Use this password to log in. You will be prompted to set a new password when you log in.

2020/09/10
You choose your own short name, but it must be unique in Navelink and be a representation of your organization’s full name. This will be part of the organization field in Maritime Resource Naming (MRN) and used for all MRN identifiers created within the organization (users, vessels, services etc). Allowed characters are: a-z (lower case) 0–9 (3–10 characters). It is typically kept short.

Updated 2022-12-06
There is a procedure defined in Navelink for releasing service instances in OPERATIONAL environment that includes a special protocol and request before set to status=released.
Release in DEV and TEST does not require protocol to be released.

2020/06/23
Service registrations will be automatically monitored in Navelink against the guidelines. Deviations will be reported directly to the registered person.

2020/06/23

Voyage Information Service