Both the safety of shipping and the cleanliness of oceans are promoted in many ways, one of which is the continuing development of routeing measures to control the navigation of vessels and to monitor their progress.
The measures that are described or defined in parts A and H of this publication are individually described in parts:
B (traffic separation schemes),
C (deep-water routes),
D (areas to be avoided),
E (other routeing measures, such as recommended tracks, two-way routes and recommended directions of traffic flow),
F (the rules and recommendations on navigation that are associated with particular traffic areas and straits),
G (mandatory ship reporting systems, mandatory routeing systems and mandatory no anchoring areas) and
H (archipelagic sea lanes).
This edition incorporates routeing measures that have been adopted before July 2017.
Contents
Introduction
SOLAS 1974, as amended, regulation V/10
Part A - General provisions on ships' routeing
Part B -Traffic separation schemes and inshore traffic zones
Section I- Baltic Sea and adjacent waters
Section Ill - Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea
Section IV - Indian Ocean and adjacent waters
SectionV -South-East Asia
Section VI - Austral asia
Section VII - North America, Pacific coast
Section VIII - South America, Pacific coast
Section IX - Western North Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbea n Sea
Section X - Asia, Pacific coast
Section XI - Eastern North Atlantic and South Atlantic Oceans
Part C - Deep-water routes
Section I- Baltic Sea and adjacent waters
Section II - Western European waters
Section Ill- Indian Ocean and adjacent waters, South-East Asia and Australasia
Section IV - Western North Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea
Part D -Areas to be avoided
Section I- North-western European waters
Section II - North and Central America n waters
Section Ill - Other areas to be avoided
Part E - Other routeing measures
Part F -Associated rules and recommendation s on navigation
Part G - Mandator y ship reporting systems, mandatory routeing systems and
mandatory no anchoring areas
Section I - Mandatory ship reporting systems
Section II - Mandatory routeing systems and mandator y no anchoring areas
Part H - Adoption, designation and subst itution of archipelagic sea lanes
Section I - Adopted archipelagic sea lanes