Capacity building for the production of nautical charts

Otherwise, sovereign owners can claim only 12 nautical miles of territorial waters.

It is essential for financial institutions to provide resources for the transition to electronic nautical charts.

The article speaks of distance from Europe to Kolkata to be much lesser of 8 hours and 250 nautical miles and distance from Africa to Kolkata would actually increase by 3.5 hours with reduction in distance a measly 70 nautical miles!

Dokdo is situated midway between the Korean peninsula and Japan s main island, roughly 115 nautical miles from each.

Moreover, according to the Convention on the Law of the Sea, countries enjoy absolute sovereignty in the first 12 nautical miles (about 20 kilometers) of their coastal waters sea, and almost absolute sovereignty, limited by a few conventions, within 200 nautical miles (360 kilometers) of their coasts.

(b) The safety of navigation for example, capacity building for the production of nautical charts as well as issues discussed at previous meetings

7. The coastal State shall delineate the outer limits of its continental shelf, where that shelf extends beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured, by straight lines not exceeding 60 nautical miles in length, connecting fixed points, defined by coordinates of latitude and longitude.

It follows from the above provisions of the Convention that a coastal State, which is entitled pursuant to the provisions of article 76 of the Convention to the continental shelf extending beyond 200 nautical miles, is required to submit to the Commission for its consideration information on the limits of its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles.

In 1989, when the Iraq Iran war sent shivers among oil consuming nations, Brazil began to explore for energy both within and beyond its 200 nautical mile protected zone.

Its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles, which is currently under examination by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, is estimated to be 953,525 square kilometres.

In accordance with the provisions of article 76, a Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf beyond 200 nautical miles shall be established in conformity with the following articles.

Any country that can prove that the seabed beyond 200 nautical miles is an extension of the continental shelf on which it is sovereign can claim sovereignty over it as well.

The crew hand been training since January 2009, and would now be heading for Umm Qasr, a 20 day 5,000 nautical miles journey via the Mediterranean, Suez Canal and Red Sea.

The IDL does not extend into Antarctica on the world time zone maps by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or the United Kingdom's Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office (HMNAO) .

The need to strengthen capacity building for the production of nautical charts, especially electronic charts, with the participation of the International Hydrographic Organization and funding institutions, was raised by one delegation.

Last year, Australia lodged with the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf its submission on the outer limit of the shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the territorial sea baseline.

Mexico reaffirms the importance of promoting capacity in the preparation of reliable nautical charts that ensure navigational safety and the protection of the environment, in particular vulnerable marine ecosystems such as coral reefs.

Dokdo is situated midway between the Korean peninsula and Japan s main island, roughly 115 nautical miles from each. But the islets are much closer to the nearest Korean island, Ulleungdo, than to Japan s Okishima.

It became the standard map projection for nautical purposes because of its ability to represent lines of constant course, known as rhumb lines or loxodromes, as straight segments which conserve the angles with the meridians.

And then there's Scott Shaffer and our shearwaters wearing tuna tags, light based tags, that now are going to take you from New Zealand to Monterey and back, journeys of 35,000 nautical miles we had never seen before.

Concerned about the oil spill from the oil tanker that sank thirteen nautical miles off the south western coast of the Province of Guimaras in the central Philippines on 11 August 2006, resulting in that country's unprecedented maritime ecological disaster,

Noting the important role of the Commission in assisting States parties in the implementation of Part VI of the Convention, through the examination of information submitted by coastal States regarding the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles,

The Secretariat will also continue to study the developments relating to the exploration and exploitation of mineral resources of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles in the light of the provisions of article 82, paragraph 4, of the Convention.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) carried out gender sensitization campaigns with the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport the Nautical Training School of Cape Verde the Marine Training School of Malawi and the Maritime Training College of Veracruz, Mexico.

Many developing countries must, as a matter of urgency, build up their capacities in the areas of nautical charts production, ship building, the protection of the marine environment, marine science research and development, law enforcement at sea and the combating of maritime crimes.

The Commission is currently considering three new submissions regarding the establishment of the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles, and a number of coastal States, including Iceland, have advised it of their intention to make submissions in the near future.

40. Requests the Secretary General, in cooperation with the Member States, to continue supporting and organizing workshops or symposiums on scientific and technical aspects of the establishment of the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles, taking into account the deadline for submission

To that end, Japan, in cooperation with the United Nations University, is planning to host a symposium on scientific and technical aspects of the establishment of the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles, to be held in Tokyo from 6 to 7 March 2006.

19. Notes with satisfaction the progress in the work of the Commission, especially that the consideration of submissions regarding the establishment of the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles has begun with receipt of the first submission, made by the Russian Federation on 20 December 2001

In this context, we are requesting that the International Hydrographic Organization intensify its efforts to build capacity in developing countries for the production of electronic nautical charts to provide data and information that can be used in fisheries activities and for other uses, such as the delimitation of maritime boundaries.

17. Recalls that under article 4 of annex II to the Convention, a State intending to establish the outer limits of its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles is to submit particulars of such limits to the Commission within ten years of the entry into force of the Convention for that State

8. Information on the limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured shall be submitted by the coastal State to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf set up under Annex II on the basis of equitable geographical representation.

1.2. The Commission prepared these Guidelines for the purpose of providing direction to coastal States which intend to submit data and other material concerning the outer limits of the continental shelf in areas where those limits extend beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.

36. Notes with satisfaction the progress in the work of the Commission,CLCS 50 and CLCS 52. that it is giving current consideration to five submissions that have been made regarding the establishment of the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles and that a number of States have advised of their intention to make submissions in the near future

(a) to consider the data and other material submitted by coastal States concerning the outer limits of the continental shelf in areas where those limits extend beyond 200 nautical miles, and to make recommendations in accordance with article 76 and the Statement of Understanding adopted on 29 August 1980 by the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea

He recalled that the training manual was based on the Outline for a five day training course for delineation of the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles and for preparation of a submission of a coastal State to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS 24 and Corr.1) prepared by the Commission in 2000.

40. Notes with satisfaction the progress in the work of the Commission,See CLCS 54 and CLCS 56. that it is giving current consideration to a number of submissions that have been made regarding the establishment of the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles and that a number of States have advised of their intention to make submissions in the near future

33. Notes with satisfaction the progress in the work of the Commission,CLCS 44 and CLCS 48 and Corr.1. that it is giving current consideration to three new submissions that have been made regarding the establishment of the outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles, and that a number of States have advised of their intention to make submissions in the near future