A ship route demarcation system in the waters west of Shenzhen was implemented on April 7, according to the Shenzhen Maritime Safety Administration.
The move will have an important impact on ships traveling within the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and along the Pearl River, which will greatly improve the efficiency of ship navigation in the region.
The demarcation area involves many important waterways, such as the public waterway in the west of Shenzhen, Mawan Waterway, and Dachan Waterway, among others.
The ship traffic flow on these waterways is large and the types of ships are complicated, resulting in low navigation efficiency and causing greater risks to water traffic safety in the west of Shenzhen.
These problems to some extent have restricted the development of the shipping economy of the Qianhai and Shekou Area of the China Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone in Shenzhen.
Tthe city’s maritime department carried out research on the basis of a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the navigation environment before designing the new ship route demarcation system.
Implementing the demarcation system is comparable to building a "highway" on sea, assigning ships with different directions to different waterways and enhancing maritime traffic efficiency.
The system has optimized the width of relevant waterways and improved navigation efficiency of two-way routes and Y-shaped routes.