Legal instruments on: Passage

Archipelagic sea lanes passage means the exercise in accordance with this Convention of the rights of navigation and overflight in the normal mode solely for the purpose of continuous, expeditious and unobstructed transit between one part of the high seas or an exclusive economic zone and another part of the high seas or an exclusive economic zone. 📑Read more

Such sea lanes and air routes shall traverse the archipelagic waters and the adjacent territorial sea and shall include all normal passage routes used as routes for international navigation or overflight through or over archipelagic waters and, within such routes, so far as ships are concerned, all normal navigational channels, provided that duplication of routes of similar convenience between the same entry and exit points shall not be necessary. 📑Read more

All ships and aircraft enjoy the right of archipelagic sea lanes passage in such sea lanes and air routes. 📑Read more

An archipelagic State which designates sea lanes under this article may also prescribe traffic separation schemes for the safe passage of ships through narrow channels in such sea lanes. 📑Read more

Such sea lanes and air routes shall be defined by a series of continuous axis lines from the entry points of passage routes to the exit points. Ships and aircraft in archipelagic sea lanes passage shall not deviate more than 25 nautical miles to either side of such axis lines during passage, provided that such ships and aircraft shall not navigate closer to the coasts than 10 per cent of the distan ... 📑Read more

Ships in archipelagic sea lanes passage shall respect applicable sea lanes and traffic separation schemes established in accordance with this article. 📑Read more

If an archipelagic State does not designate sea lanes or air routes, the right of archipelagic sea lanes passage may be exercised through the routes normally used for international navigation. 📑Read more

Duties of ships and aircraft during archipelagic sea lanes passage: Ships and aircraft in archipelagic sea lanes passage shall: (a) proceed without delay through or over the sea lanes; (b) refrain from any threat or use of force against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of the archipelagic State, or in any other manner in violation of the principles of international law embodied in the Charter of the ... 📑Read more

Maritime navigation is navigation at sea and in those parts of rivers and canals that are in principle open to the first permanent obstacle to the passage of seagoing vessels. principle up to the first permanent obstacle to the passage of seagoing vessels.