NOORDERSOFT

In the european waterways breaks (stoppages) are planned every year in order to carry out maintenance and control works. As far as these stoppages imply a total interruption (meaning that no passage of ships is possible) NoorderSoft keeps them surveyed in a database, allowing the users of PC-Navigo to take the waterway closures into account.

In order to allow PC-Navigo to track down the possible stoppages, the concerned updated file must be downloaded every now and then. This can be done automatically, using the function in PC-Navigo which collects the necessary information, or manually, by downloading the file from this page and saving it into the same subdirectory where PC-Navigo is installed (usually C:\Program Files\Navigo....).

If PC-Navigo establishes stoppages along a calculated route, it will report when and where these stoppages will be, and it will propose to recalculate the route in order to find an alternative (that is: IF such an alternative is available and faster or shorter than the original with the stoppage for the time it lasts).

The file with the most recently published stoppages is called obstruct08.dbf (if you have version 2008) or obstruct07.dbf (if you have version 2007) or obstruct06.dbf (if you have version 2006); You may download it with a double click and save it in the directory that contains PC-Navigo.

As of January 2008 the seperate stoppage files for versions 4.5 and older have not been maintained anymore. A file with only the long-lasting stoppages for versions 4.5 or 4.4 can be downloaded, called obstruct44.dbf; for version 4.3 and older the file is called obstruct.dbf.