The Marine and Water Bureau met with the Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau to discuss issues relating to cooperation on coastal administration, such as hydrographic surveying, the placing of marker buoys and channel dredging.

The meeting was held on 3 March in Zhuhai. It followed the signing on 5 January of the Cooperation Agreement on Marine Traffic and Fairway Management for Waters Administered by the Macao Special Administrative Region. The agreement is between the Ministry of Transport and the SAR Government .

During the meeting, the Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau and the Marine and Water Bureau exchanged views on dredging and hydrographic surveying cooperation.

Guangdong and Macao will also share technical information to ensure efficient transportation via public waterways and navigational safety.

Before the State Council demarcated the boundary of Macao’s jurisdictional waters in late December last year, the Marine and Water Bureau had placed approximately one dozen marker buoys in total at, respectively, the fairways of Shizimen, Inner Harbour and Cotai.

The bureau will now provide its Guangdong counterpart with the technical specifications of those marker buoys that are located in waters administered by Guangdong. This is so the Guangdong authorities can place new marker buoys in the original locations.