Legal instruments on: Ship

Right of archipelagic sea lanes passage: 1. An archipelagic State may designate sea lanes and air routes thereabove, suitable for the continuous and expeditious passage of foreign ships and aircraft through or over its archipelagic waters and the adjacent territorial sea. 📑Read more

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

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 distance between the nearest points on ... 📑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

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

All ships must respect these safety zones and shall comply with generally accepted international standards regarding navigation in the vicinity of artificial islands, installations, structures and safety zones. 📑Read more

Every State, whether coastal or land-locked, has the right to sail ships flying its flag on the high seas. 📑Read more

Every State shall issue to ships to which it has granted the right to fly its flag documents to that effect. 📑Read more

Every State shall fix the conditions for the grant of its nationality to ships, for the registration of ships in its territory, and for the right to fly its flag. Ships have the nationality of the State whose flag they are entitled to fly. There must exist a genuine link between the State and the ship. 📑Read more