Medical Equipment: Trading Areas

Which medical equipment is required depends on the trading area, among other things. Our two new maps offer an overview of these trading areas.

The current "State of Medical Knowledge" informs about the medical equipment required on board. The scope of the equipment depends on the amount of people on board, the trading area and whether it is a fishing vessel.

The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency BSH designed in cooperation with the Maritime Medical Service of BG Verkehr two maps of the trading areas to give you a better overview. One map offers an overview of the trading areas for merchant ships (without fishing vessels) and the other of the trading areas of fishing vessels.

The trading areas of merchant ships are divided into

  • port area,
  • domestic and near-coastal voyage,
  • European voyage, and
  • international voyage.

For fishing vessels, the trading areas for different sets of medical equipment are

  • coastal fishing,
  • high sea fishing, and
  • deep sea fishing.

Further information on medical equipment on ships can be found in our rubric "Maritime Medicine".