KL to use radar for busy strait

Mon, 01 Dec 1997, 00:00 WIB | Source: REUTERS

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters): Malaysia will commission a new 100
million ringgit (US$28.5 million) radar system next year to make
the increasingly busy Strait of Malacca safer for ships, a local
newspaper reported yesterday.

The New Sunday Times quoted Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik
as saying that tests were being conducted on the new system which
had been approved in principle by the International Maritime
Organization.

When implemented, all vessels entering the 600-kilometer long
strait must contact the radar center which would then guide their
passage, Ling said.

Under present maritime laws, vessels using the strait need not
report their passage as it was considered an international
waterway.

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