Hong Kong is making more efforts to improve ship navigation safety in its crowded waters, with plans to add more speed limit areas.
During a maritime safety seminar held by Hong Kong Marine Department, the department proposes to set up four new ship speed limit areas each at Tai Po and Sai Kung, adding to 21 existing speed limit areas.
In the meantime, the marine department has released a mobile app, eSeaGo, this month to help ships navigate in Hong Kong waters more safely.
According to the department, there were a total of 122 ship collision incidents in Hong Kong waters last year.
At the end of December, CMA CGM’s containership CMA CGM Norma collided with general cargo ship Yusheng366 near Hong Kong waters, which led to the sinking of the latter.
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