Head-on Situation (a) When two power-driven vessels are meeting on reciprocal on nearly reciprocal courses so as to invoke risk of collision each shall alter her course to starboard so that each shall pass on the port side of the other. (b) Such a situation shall be deemed to exist when a vessel sees the […]

(a) A power driven vessel underway shall keep out of the way of: (i) a vessel not under command; (ii) a vessel restricted in her ability to manoeuvre; (iii) a vessel engaged in fishing; (iv) a sailing vessel (b) A sailing vessel underway shall keep out of the way of: (i) a vessel not under […]

The need for the establishment of a unified buoyage system became crucial the last decades, because of the great extend of the international navigational traffic, the accidents and, finally, because of the variety of the buoyage systems that were locally applied by the States. It has to be highlighted that during 1975 more than 30 […]

1. These rules shall apply to all vessels upon the high seas and in all waters connected therewith navigable by seagoing vessels. 2. Nothing in these Rules shall interfere with the operation of special rules made by an appropriate authority for road steads, harbors, rivers, lakes or inland waterways connected with the high seas and […]