Description

This revised Passage Planning Guide for the Malacca and Singapore Straits follows extensive distribution of the original publication dated 1998. Since that time fundamental changes apply to the area.

This new Guide encapsulates these changes and allows for future onboard electronic revision as changes occur. This is an extremely valuable enhancement over the earlier document, which remained fixed in time and space. Publication of this new Guide will comprise of a book and accompanying passage planning CDROM

Overview

The basic principle of the Guide is to con a ship through the straits, either eastbound or westbound, giving salient information for the each leg of the voyage.

The advantage of the new electronic version lies in its functionality allowing for update for company-specific, ship-specific or time-specific differences thus tailoring the hardcopy Passage Plan to a unique document suited to the individual ship for the date and time of transit.

The Guide is informed by marine experience form many shipmasters transiting the straits.

Content

PART 1 - Background and Guidance

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 The Cooperation Forum and the Marine Electronic Highway (MEH)
• 1.3 Special Issues
• 1.3.1 Bridge Manning Levels
• 1.3.2 Engine Room Manning Levels
• 1.3.3 High Risk Areas and Speed Controls
• 1.3.4 Use of Engines
• 1.3.5 Ship Services at Singapore
• 1.3.6 Training in Bridge Teamwork
• 1.3.7 GPS
• 1.3.8 Electronic Charts
• 1.3.9 Integrated Bridge Systems (IBS)
• 1.3.10 Electronic Mapping
• 1.3.11 AIS
• 1.3.12 VHF Communication and Collision Avoidance
• 1.3.13 Visual and Racon Navigational Aids
• 1.3.14 Currents and Tidal Streams
• 1.3.15 Pilotage
• 1.4 Passage Planning Guidance
• 1.4.1 Purpose of Passage Planning
• 1.4.2 Error Management
• 1.4.3 Preparing the Plan
• 1.4.4 Preparing charts
• 1.4.5 Preparing or Amending Passage Notes
• 1.4.6 Briefing
• 1.4.7 Monitoring the Passage Plan
• 1.4.8 Pirate Activity and Security
• 1.5 References

PART 2 - Passage Notes

• 2.1 Passage Notes
• 2.1.1 Data Collection
• 2.1.2 Traffic
• 2.1.3 Fishing Activities to the North of One Fathom Bank
• 2.1.4 Tidal and Current Effects
• 2.1.5 Navigation Marks
• 2.1.6 Weather
• 2.2 Eastbound Passage Notes – Malacca Strait
• 2.3 Eastbound Passage Notes – Singapore Straits
• 2.4 Westbound Passage Notes – Singapore Straits
• 2.5 Westbound Passage Notes – Malacca Strait

Part 3 - Annexes

• Annex 1 - Rules for Vessels Navigating through the Straits of Malacca and Singapore
• Annex 2 - Radio Reports for Mandatory Reporting
• Annex 3 - VHF in the Mandatory Reporting System
• Annex 4 - STRAITREP Operational Areas
• Annex 5 - Examples of Information for Inclusion on Charts
• Annex 6 - Guidelines for Voyage Planning
• Using the Passage Planning CD