The project, which also has the backing of the Malacca Straits Council of Japan, intends to improve navigational safety.
The surveys will be carried out around One Fathom Bank, Cape Rachado, Buffalo Rock, off Pulau Seborak and Batu Berhanti
“This initiative was one of the key recommendations that arose from a study commissioned by the littoral states in 2013 on real-time monitoring of under keel clearance in the SOMS,” said Singapore’s Maritime Port Authority (MPA).
