Straits of Malacca and Singapore

Piracy is also very active in the Strait of Malacca.

In 2004, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia had begun coordinated naval patrols of the Straits of Malacca and the Straits of Singapore, which were important for world trade.

The same three countries, together with Thailand, were also beginning air patrols over the Straits of Malacca.

Of course, China claims that its intentions toward India are peaceful. For example, it contends that its efforts to establish bases in the Indian Ocean and bolster its blue water navy are aimed at safeguarding the Malacca Straits, a maritime trade route that is perceived as a choke point for the Chinese economy.

In the context of strengthening the safety of navigation and maritime security in the area, we further commend the assistance of the IMO in facilitating the Marine Electronic Highway project for the Straits of Malacca and Singapore.

The areas most affected by pirates and armed robbers continued to be the same areas, i.e., the South China Sea, Strait of Malacca, Indian Ocean, East and West Africa and South America.

Strait of Istanbul, the Strait of Çanakkale and the Sea of Marmara

200. MSC at its sixty ninth session, by its resolution MSC.73(69), adopted mandatory ship reporting systems in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore and in the Strait of Bonifacio , both of which will be implemented as of 1 December 1998.

(c) in seeking attainment of the above objectives, the Organization and the Secretary General should seek to promote the Marine Electronic Highway project specifically designed for the Straits of Malacca and Singapore.

185. MSC at its sixty ninth session adopted five new traffic separation schemes and amended three existing schemes in the straits of Malacca and Singapore, together with two additional deep water routes, seven precautionary areas, three inshore traffic zones and one area to be avoided.18 Amendments to the Rules for Vessels Navigating through the Straits of Malacca and Singapore were also adopted by the Committee.19 The adopted routeing measures will be implemented as of 1 December 1998.

One delegation provided information about various initiatives to improve safety and security of navigation and environmental protection in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, including an IMO sponsored meeting to be held in Jakarta in 2005, and the marine electronic highway project.

Also vital to the new strategy are two prospective modern day Silk Roads an overland route through Central Asia to the Black Sea and a Maritime Silk Road by which shipping will pass from the South China Sea, through the Strait of Malacca, across the Indian Ocean to East Africa, and from there through the Red Sea into the eastern Mediterranean.

Because China must import vast quantities of oil through the Malacca Strait, that sea lane has become a central element in the country s security strategy. For this reason, China is attempting to use economic and military aid as leverage to improve relations even with countries with which it has had military confrontations with in the past, most prominently Vietnam and the Philippines.

It is planned that the complete system would be fully operational in the course of the year 2000 and will completely cover the Strait of Istanbul, the Strait of Çanakkale and the Sea of Marmara (see MSC 69 INF.25).

The Barham's in dry dock at Gibraltar.

So it is little wonder that it is in these places that most illegal immigration and human trafficking occurs pirates in the Straits of Malacca, fast boats between Albania and Italy, and desperate human cargoes from Africa and Latin America.

Pas de Calais

Nord Pas de Calais

Strait of Bonifacio

One, she'll double back again into the Indian Ocean, two, she'll try and slip back to Germany as she came out, through the Denmark Strait.

The reason because Tierra del Fuego is separated from South America by a much narrower straight, and there was trading contact across that straight throughout 10,000 years.

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He is over the English Channel and underway.

I don't know, Taiwan Straits 2025.

Straits used for international navigation

Departing English coast on course, on time, sir.

A hundred and eighteen miles across the channel to Cherbourg.

188. The IMO Assembly at its twentieth session took note of a report (A 20 9 Add.1, annex 3) on the review of the operation of the Rules and Recommendations on navigation through and the conditions in the Strait of Istanbul, the Strait of Çanakkale and the Sea of Marmara submitted the Subcommittee on the Safety of Navigation.

The construction of bridges is planned to connect the domestic transport system and to link Denmark to Sweden and Germany, across the Great Belt, Øresund and the Femern Belt, respectively.

(b) Transit rights in straits and archipelagos

Once I swam the English Channel with an anvil on me chest.

It was found in the bosporus.

The straits were too narrow for the cruise ship.

Did you get the coordinates on a Fort and a Spitfire down in the Channel?

We had to alter the navigation in flight, sir, to cross the enemy coast here.

H is crossing the channel even now in the dark.

Sir Percy is flying the channel at this moment.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission

Bourbon's the only drink. You can pour that champagne down the Channel.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission

Thomas Cowan (Director, Northwest Straits Commission) explained how the derelict fishing gear removal project of the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative addressed the location and removal of such gear.

Take the vest off.

A model was developed comparing the possible thermal history of Triton and Pluto whose atmospheres consist like Titan s of nitrogen and methane, allowing the estimates of methane content in Titan apos s atmosphere.

I don't know, the Million Man Swim.