Safety of Navigation 

Safety of navigation is regulated by the Danish Act on Safety at Sea.

The Act applies to Danish ships and to foreign ships in Danish territorial waters.

The Act provides regulations on the construction, equipment and operation of ships as well as on safety of navigation and general obligations. The Act also takes into account environmental considerations in connection with ships and navigation.

Safety of navigation is ensured through close cooperation with other national and international organisations and authorities to ensure that nautical publications, charts, surveys, lighthouses, navigation marks, ports, dredging, routing, regulations for preventing collisions at sea, pilotage and regulations on pollution prevention and safety of life at sea are of the highest standard, just to mention a few of the key issues in the vast safety of navigation complex.

The Danish Act on Safety At Sea is Consolidated Act no. 903 of 12 July 2007, as amended.
 

A collection of links to relevant websites and papers on these issues is found below:

Fact sheet on tankers, oil transport and safety of navigation in the Baltic Sea.

Mutual concerns of oil transporters and a coastal State – a Danish perspective
by Andreas Nordseth, Director, Danish Maritime Authority, at Baltic and North Sea seminar.

ISM Code: Lessons and the Future
by Jørgen Hammer Hansen, Director General, the Danish Maritime Authority

at IX International Seminar on 5-6 October 2006 in St. Petersburg.

Concerns of a Coastal State – Groundings and collisions in the Great Belt from 1 January 1997 to 1 July 2005
by Christian Breinholt, Director, Danish Maritime Authority

The entrances to the Baltic – their limitations and effect on the transport of oil, safety and environmental concerns
At GOING SIF International Oil Trading and Transportation Conference in Moscow on 30-31 March 2006.
 

Navigational Safety in the Sound between Denmark and Sweden (Oresund).
 

International shipping associations and Danish Maritime Authorities pleased with the increase in number of ships using pilot through the entrances to the Baltic Sea.

Terms of reference for the Joint Pilotage User group.
 

Navigational site of HELCOM.
 

IMO Resolution MSC.138(76), Recommendation on Navigation through the Entrances to the Baltic Sea.
 

Order no. 733 of 25 June 2007 on the transfer of oil cargo between ships in Danish territorial waters (STS operations).
 

National Survey and Cadastre.

Danish Maritime Safety Administration.
 

Danish Meteorological Institute.
 

International Maritime Organization.
 

Danish Coastal Authority.