Seatradeasia-online.com, 13 Apr 2009
Singapore: The American P&I Club is warning members whose vessels are transiting through, or anchoring in, the territorial waters of Singapore, including the Eastern and Western outer port limit (OPL) anchorages of Singapore, to be especially careful in the avoidance of collisions with other ships.
The Club’s very recent experience of certain, happily only small, collision claims, together with more general comment obtained from other sources, point to an increased risk of collisions in this area where there has been a large accumulation of vessels lying at anchor.
“It would appear that the most recent spate of collisions has occurred at the Eastern OPL anchorage, where a number of ships maneuvering within the area have collided with vessels already at anchor.
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