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MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1994

TST LIGHT BUOY ESTABLISHED

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LAID A BUOY, THE "TST MEASURES TO ENHANCE

THE MARINE DEPARTMENT TODAY (MONDAY) LIGHT BUOY", AT CENTRAL HARBOUR AS PART OF THE SAFETY OF VESSEL MOVEMENT IN THE WATERS OF HONG KONG,

PRINCIPAL

MARINE

OFFICER

LIGHT BUOY OFF

SESSION, THE SPEAKING AT A MEDIA (VESSEL TRAFFIC SERVICES), MR Y K LEE, SAID THAT THE NEW WORLD CENTRE WOULD MARK THE CENTRE LINE OF THE HUNG HOM FAIRWAY.

OF NAVIGATION IN THE "IT IS INTENDED TO ENHANCE THE SAFETY AREA BY SEPARATING END-ON TRAFFIC, THUS WILL MINIMISE TRAFFIC CONFLICT

TRAFFIC IN A MORE ORDERLY PATTERN, AND ASSIST IN ORGANISING THE MR LEE SAID.

HE ADDED THAT THE

ESTABLISHMENT

WOULD

H

MORE

OF THE

BUOY, COUPLED WITH IN PATROLLING

THE AREA, THREE HIGH-SPEED LAUNCHES NOW EFFECTIVELY ENFORCE THE "FAIRWAY RULES", THAT IS, KEEP TO STARBOARD.

ALONG THE

MR LEE EXPLAINED THAT A VESSEL USING AND PROCEEDING HUNG HOM FAIRWAY SHOULD LEAVE THE BUOY TO HER OWN PORT SIDE THUS RECIPROCAL TRAFFIC PORT-TO-PORT.

PASS

THE MARINE DEPARTMENT HAS ADOPTED A PROACTIVE APPROACH FOR MANAGEMENT OF VESSEL TRAFFIC IN HONG KONG WATERS.

THE

"PROACTIVE" MEANS

TAKING

PRE-EMPTIVE

MEASURES

TO

PREVENT

"CLOSE-QUARTERS SITUATION" FROM TAKING PLACE.

THE

ESTABLISHMENT OF

TST THE

LIGHT

BUOY IS

ONE OF

THE

PRE-EMPTIVE MEASURES.

BY THE

MR LEE NOTED THAT OTHER MEASURES THAT HAD BEEN ADOPTED

ESTABLISHMENT OF TRAFFIC FACILITIES MARINE DEPARTMENT INCLUDED THE SUCH

OF ANTI-BUNCHING EAST LAMMA OF THE HIGH-SPEED CRAFT FOR

AS

AND FAIRWAYS, ANCHORAGES

THE PILOTS PROCEDURES AT

STATIONS, CHANNEL TRAFFIC SEPARATION SCHEME AND PATROLLING CROWDED AREAS.

ESTABLISHMENT

ESTENSION

OF USE

A NOTICE TO MARINE NO. 69 OF 1994 HAS BEEN ISSUED TO PROMULGATE THE DETAILS OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TST LIGHT BUOY.

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE MORE

OF THE

"THE MARINE DEPARTMENT WILL REVIEW BUOY AND MAY, SUBJECT TO THE RESULT BUOYS IN THE VICINITY," MR LEE SAID.

REVIEW, ESTABLISH

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