Articles
Protecting the Environment and Promoting Safe Navigation: Australia's System of Pilotage in the Torres Strait
Publicado 2007-09-27
Palabras clave
- marine environment,
- compulsory pilotage,
- marine safety,
- IMO,
- Torres Strait
- territorial sea,
- fisheries,
- marine navigation,
- IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC),
- IMO Resolution of the Marine Environment Protection Committee 2005,
- Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas,
- Navigation Act 1912,
- right of innocent passage,
- freedom of navigation,
- UNCLOS 1982,
- public international law ...Más
Resumen
In this paper, McCarthy discusses Australia's system of pilotage in the Torres Strait, the national significance of the Torres Strait, the IMO resolution authorising the pilotage system, how it is being implemented domestically, and the practical effect of the system.