MSC 69/5/9

　

ANNEX

　

1 　　　Actions by SIGTTO and INTERTANKO Members;

.1　　　 will encourage all their Members to ensure that all masters and watch-keeping officers are trained in Bridge Resource Management. For those Members whose ships trade through the Malacca and Singapore Straits, they will incorporate into this training simulator and passage planning specific to the area;

.2 　　　will develop a‘model’passage plan, derived from very comprehensive passage plans presently in use by its members!, that will cover all the aspects of safe navigation in the area. This will include all relevant publications and security information for the area;

.3 　　　the area between a longitude drawn through Batu Berhanti and a longitude through Racon (D) has been identified as an area of heightened risk, due to the very limited width of the traffic lanes and the presence of joining or crossing traffic. To this end the members will impose upon themselves a maximum speed limit in this area of 12 knots. Vessels constrained by their draught and using the deep water route in this area will have this speed restriction imposed by the proposed Rules for Vessels Navigating through the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, Rule 7. However SIGTTO and INTERTANKO will extend the speed limit on all their vessels in both directions;

.4 　　　introduce to members that they use an area for storing off port limits for LNG and LPG vessels to the east of the traffic separation scheme that starts to the south of Changi airport. (Singapore Port Authority has recently introduced an area, within port limits, for vessels to the north of this area but this storing area specifically excludes LPG and LNG vessels); and

.5　　　report all near misses and other incidents that occur to Member vessels to SIGTTO and INTERTANKO who will compile a data base of all such incidents for regular dissemination and review of safety of navigation in the area.

　

2 　　　Recommendations for additional changes to the proposals in MSC 69/5;

.1 　　　NAV 43/15 - Annex 2 (MSC 69/5, paragraph 2.1)
NEW AND AMENDED TRAFFIC SEPERATION SCHEMES AND ASSOCIATED ROUTEING MEASURES - STRAITS OF MALACCA AND SINGAPORE

a) 　　　Extend the eastern portion of the traffic separation scheme, presently in existence in the Horsburgh area, a further seven miles to the north east.

(Our Members report that on several occasions near misses have occurred when other vessels have altered course at a way point, immediately at the end of the traffic separation scheme, to pass inside the Eastern Bank. These alterations have been with little consideration for other traffic and at an angle that causes considerable problems for vessels joining or leaving the traffic separation scheme in the general direction of traffic flow. By extending the scheme to the north east any vessel wishing to proceed inside the Eastern Bank will be required, by Rule 10 c) of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972, to cross the opposite lane at right angles to the traffic flow, This, we believe, will reduce the risks of collisions in this area).

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