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    Aids To Navigation: Maritime Safety

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    Malaysia has over 4,500 km of coastline and relies on aids to navigation to guide ships safely. These include 40 lighthouses, beacons anchored along channels, and buoys marking wrecks or boundaries. The Light Dues Board, under the Marine Department Malaysia, maintains and manages these navigational aids. The Traffic Separation Scheme further aims to reduce risks by separating shipping lanes in the busy Straits of Malacca.

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    Malaysia has over 4,500 km of coastline and relies on aids to navigation to guide ships safely. These include 40 lighthouses, beacons anchored along channels, and buoys marking wrecks or boundaries. The Light Dues Board, under the Marine Department Malaysia, maintains and manages these navigational aids. The Traffic Separation Scheme further aims to reduce risks by separating shipping lanes in the busy Straits of Malacca.

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    Malaysia has over 4,500 km of coastline and relies on aids to navigation to guide ships safely. These include 40 lighthouses, beacons anchored along channels, and buoys marking wrecks or boundaries. The Light Dues Board, under the Marine Department Malaysia, maintains and manages these navigational aids. The Traffic Separation Scheme further aims to reduce risks by separating shipping lanes in the busy Straits of Malacca.

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    Aids To Navigation

    Maritime Safety
    Maritime safety includes area of safety of navigation, seafarers, oil spill response and vessel traffic
    system. These elements are vital to ensure the Malaysian waters and its marine environment is safe,
    secure and sustainable.

    Aids To Navigation
    Malaysia has a coastline of over 4,500 kilometers. With the increasing number of ships plying
    Malaysian waters, aids to navigation is vital not only for the smooth sailing of ships to their
    destinations but also to ensure safe passage. In this regards, Malaysia has put in place aids to
    navigation along the coastline which include lighthouses, beacons and also buoys. These navigational
    aids are maintained and managed by the Light Dues Board which is under the administration of the
    Marine Department Malaysia.

    Lighthouse

    The Malacca Lighthouse was the earliest lighthouse built in Malaysia in the mid-1800s. Currently,
    there are 40 lighthouses throughout Malaysia. Most of the lighthouses are equipped with radar to assist
    or guide ships’ position.

    Beacon
    Beacons are permanently built structure at determined location to mark navigational channel, rocks,
    shoal and etc.

    Buoy
    Buoys are floating devices on the water surface, bound with chains (spool) that are anchored on the
    seabed. Buoys marked the boundary of navigational channel, ship wrecks, marking, anchorage areas,
    dangerous areas and etc.​

    Marine Electronic Highway

    The Marine Electronic Highway Demonstration Project (MEH Project) is a project funded by the
    Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
    (IBRD). This project involves three countries, namely Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, in
    collaboration with the International Maritime Organization (IMO), International Hydrographic
    Organizationt (IHO), International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and the International Association of
    Tanker Owners (INTERTANKO).​

    The MEH project in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore has three (3) main components namely:

    1. Protection of the marine environment;


    2. Safety and security of marine traffic;
    3. Sustainability of funding.

    Traffic Separation Scheme


    The Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS) is an initiative to facilitate marine traffic in the Straits of
    Malacca. The purpose of this system is to reduce the risk of close quarter situation between ships.
    Through this system, ships are separated by the navigation routes determined by the Marine
    Department of Malaysia.

    Location of lighthouses

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