1. Ability to plan a voyage and conduct navigation in accordance with the General Provisions on Ship’s Routeing taking into consideration the limitation of the vessel’s current draft and other circumstances for safe operation of the voyage.
2. Ability to manoeuvre and handle a ship in all conditions with appropriate methods to determine the ship’s position, as well as using modern electronic navigational aids and Electronic Chart Display Information System (ECDIS); specific knowledge of their operating principles, limitations, sources of errors and detection of misrepresentation of information; know methods of correction to obtain accurate position fixing; the interrelationship and optimal use of all navigational data available for conducting navigation.
3. Ability to evaluate and forecast sailing meteorological conditions, taking into account essential and forecast weather in the sailing area, taking into consideration local meteorological conditions for possible correction of the ship's passage and safe operation of the voyage.

Chapter 1. Basic terms and definitions of the discipline "Navigation and Pilotage".

Chapter 2. Determining the direction and covered distance at sea.

Chapter 3. Cartographic projections for nautical charts.

Chapter 4. Dead Reckoning.

Chapter 5. Nautical charts and Sailing Directions.

Chapter 6. Aids to navigation.

Chapter 7. Concept and methods of determining the ship’s position.

Chapter 8. Determining the ship’s position by means of bearings and distances.

Chapter 9. Collection of ship’s charts and publications for navigation.

Chapter 10. Charts Correction.

Chapter 11. Tides.

Chapter 12. Use of Radio Location System in navigation tasks; Radio Navigation System “E-LORAN”; Navigation Satellite System.

Chapter 13. Navigational preparation of the ship for passage.

Chapter 14. Navigation in narrow waters.