INTERNATIONAL
MARITIME ORGANIZATION
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IMO
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MSC 70/11/11
9 October 1998
Original: ENGLISH
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MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE
70th session
Agenda item 11
SAFETY OF NAVIGATION
Preparation of a new report
covering all aspects of safety
and environmental
protection including the review
of the IMO Rules and
Recommendations on Navigation
through the Strait of
Istanbul, Strait of Canakkale
and the Marmara Sea
Note by the Russian Federation
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SUMMARY
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| Executive
Summary: |
With reference to
paragraphs 5.49
to 5.52 of the
Committee's report
MSC 69/22, the
Russian Federation
submits its
comments and
proposals on the matter. |
| Action to be Taken: |
Paragraph 14. |
| Related documents: |
Resolution A.827(19); MSC 69/22;
NAV 39/3/9; NAV
43/15, annex 10; NAV
43/3/1; NAV 44/3/4;
NAV 44/WP.4 and
Add,1 ; MSC 70/11,
paragraph 2.2.
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1 Following the
Committee's decision at its sixty-ninth
session, the
NAV Sub-Committee at its forty-fourth
session started
preparation of a new report,
covering all aspects of
safety and environmental protection,
including the
review of the IMO Rules and Recommendations
on
Navigation through the Strait
of Istanbul, Strait of
Canakkale and the Marmara Sea.
However, due to the
heavy workload of the Sub-Committee
it was unable to
devote sufficient time to complete
the task. Only a
preliminary draft of a part for
a new report was
prepared by the Working Group
and approved by the
Sub-Committee.
2 Taking into account the urgency
of
the matter and the recommendation
by the forty-fourth
session of the Sub-Committee
to convene a Working
Group at the Committee's seventieth
session, the
Russian Federation submits the
following comments and
proposals.
3 In the opinion of the Russian
Federation, the IMO efforts should
be aimed at
finding in the new report a meeting
point of
interests of those States whose
ships navigate in the
area and interests of Turkey
as a coastal State, with
the objective of improving safety
of navigation,
public and environment without
jeopardizing the
principle of freedom of navigation
of merchant
vessels through the Straits set
forth by the Montreux
Convention of 1936. The benefits
of such an agreed
solution to the problem are great
particularly to the
International Shipping Community
as the traffic would
be regulated by one set of internationally
agreed
rules.
4 On 1 May 1982, Turkey advised the
IMO
that it had introduced a "New
Traffic Order
conforming with the 1972 Collision
Regulations"
for the Bosphorus. Prior to that
date traffic
navigated to the left of the
channel. After May 1982
vessels navigate to the right,
starboard side of the
channel, and endeavour not to
cross the meridian line
between the two lanes and to
avoid overtaking unless
forced to do so.
For reasons of economy, this document is
printed in a limited
number. Delegates are
kindly asked to bring
their copies to
meetings and not to request
additional
copies.
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I:/MSC/70/11-4GSS
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