The display style of Electronic Charts are standardised, but not the UI of the device that display them. However, seafarers are required to be formally trained

The display style of Electronic Charts are standardised, but not the UI of the device that display them. However, seafarers are required to be formally trained on each type of Electronic Chart display they use. Beyond that, not much. The instrumentation of a harbour tug with a simple shaft drive will clear be very different to an ocean-going cruise ship with sophisticated steerable propulsion pods. Arguably, apart from engine instruments there is only one "default" instrument which virtually every powered boat has - a compass. Traditionally, large ships had a substantial array of individual control panels supplied by different manufacturers which took up a large amount of physical space, and the senior officers would give orders to the people operating them rather than walking backwards and forwards constantly. On the latest passenger ships, similar to aircraft they are moving more towards integrated multi-function displays which enable all systems to be directly controlled by one person.