IN BRIEF

Navigation move welcomed

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has welcomed the outcome of a meeting between governments to advance navigational safety in the strategically vital Malacca and Singapore Straits, where there are about 70,000 ship transits each year. During a recent meeting in Singapore, of the “Co-operative Mechanism on Safety of Navigation and Environmental Protection in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore” (which involves the littoral states of Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia), ICS had expressed concern about the continuing lack of new large scale navigational charts.