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Ship Routing—Present Status and Future Trends

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

J. Paton
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Commander Paton's paper, here slightly condensed, was presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Vessel Traffic Services held in Bremen from 28 to 30 April 1981. The author is Hydrographic Adviser to the Department of Trade, but the views expressed here should not be taken to represent those of the Department. Commander Paton has also for some years been Chairman of IMCO's Working Group on routing matters.

Apart from some wartime measures, modern ship routing really dates from the early sixties, when the Institutes of Navigation in Britain, France and Germany set up a joint Working Group on traffic separation. The principal result of their labours was the Dover Strait traffic separation scheme, jointly submitted to IMCO by the British, French and German Governments and implemented in 1967. This was followed by various proposals for the North Sea, Baltic and elsewhere, considerable impetus being given by the Torrey Canyon disaster off the Scilly Isles in 1967.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , January 1982 , pp. 113 - 123
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1982

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