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Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait

• GBR Review Report
• contents
• Contents HTML version
• Executive Summary
• Introduction
• Shipping in the GBR
• Extension of pilotage area
• Advancing Technology
• Enhancing ship routing traffic and emergency
• Constraining Certain ship types
• Improving legislative powers
• Abbreviations
• Attachments
• List of Figures
• GBR Review
• GBR Review discussion paper
• Report in PDF format
• Review of Safety Initiatives

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Review of Ship Safety and Pollution Prevention Measures in the Great Barrier Reef

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Contents

Full contents page

[ PDF: 16KB]

Executive Summary

[ PDF: 121KB]

1. INTRODUCTION

[ PDF: 47KB]

• Terms of Reference
• The Way Ahead – A Shipping Management Plan
• Conduct of the Review
• Significance of the Great Barrier Reef
• The Torres Strait

2. SHIPPING IN THE GREAT BARRIER REEF

[ PDF: 54KB]

• Operational Considerations
• Indigenous Considerations
• Technical Considerations
• Legal Considerations

3. EXTENSION OF THE COMPULSORY PILOTAGE AREA

[ PDF: 95KB]

• Where Can Pilotage Reduce Risk?
• Proposals to Extend Compulsory Pilotage
• Implications of Extending Compulsory Pilotage

4. ADVANCING TECHNOLOGY

[ PDF: 161KB]

• Risk Assessment
• Early Introduction of Automatic Identification Systems
• Automated Position Reports
• Ship Reporting System Management Role
• Ship Monitoring in the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait
• Electronic Navigation and Charting
• Other Technologies

5. ENHANCING SHIP ROUTEING, TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND Emergency Response Division

[ PDF: 73KB]

• Ship Routeing
• Chart Changes
• Traffic Management
• Emergency Response Division

6. CONSTRAINING CERTAIN SHIP TYPES

[ PDF: 67KB]

• Outer Route
• Legal Limitations on Controlling Foreign Ships Under International Law
• Impact of a Complete Ban on the Inner Route
• Types of Ships and Cargoes
• Port State Control
• Confidential Reporting
• Double Hulled Tankers

7. IMPROVING LEGISLATIVE POWERS

[ PDF: 95KB]

• International law
• Jurisdictional Issues
• Areas of Inconsistency
• Gaps in Legislative Powers

ABBREVIATIONS

[ PDF: 9KB]

ATTACHMENTS

[ PDF: 115KB]

1. Terms of Reference
2. Persons and Organisations Making Submissions
3. Marine Incidents in the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait 1985-2000
4. Legislative Powers of Intervention and Enforcement
5. Legislative Penalties and Offences
6. Legislative Powers Of Restitution And Recovery Of Costs
7. Legislation Governing Response to a Shipping Incident

LIST OF FIGURES

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• 2.1 Shipping Routes in the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait
• 3.1 Pilotage Areas in the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait
• 3.2 The Inner Route South of Cairns
• 3.3 Changes to Compulsory Pilotage Boarding Arrangements South of Cairns
• 3.4 Pilotage in the Whitsunday Islands
• 4.1 Diagram of Automatic Identification System Operation
• 4.2 Ship Reporting Points in the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait
• 5.1 Fairway Channel
• 5.2 Proposed Marine Environment High Risk Areas
• 7.1 Jurisdictional Boundaries in the Prince of Wales Channel

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