Development of a

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Development of a Regional Marine Electronic
Highway in the Straits of Malacca and
Singapore by S. Adrian Ross, Senior Programme
Officer, PEMSEA and James Paw, Technical Officer,
IMO London
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Background on the MEH Project 1996 - 2002

1. Regional Conference on Sustainable Financing
   Mechanisms Public/Private Sector Partnerships,
   November 1996
2. GEF/UNDP/IMO Regional Programme Steering
   Committee Meetings 1996, 1997, 1998
3. TTEG Meeting, May 1997
4. World Bank Prefeasibility Study The SE Asia MEH,
   June 1997
5. Regional Workshop on the MEH, October 1998
6. IFC Feasibility Analysis of the SE Asian MEH,
   April 1999
7. PDF Block B Grant Request Development of a
   Regional MEH in the East Asian Seas with a First
   Phase in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore,
   March 2001 December 2002

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MARINE ELECTRONIC HIGHWAY

• An innovative marine information and
  infrastructure system that

• enhances maritime services and navigational
  safety standards
• integrates marine environment protection and
  sustainable development of the coastal and marine
  resources and
• provides a sustainable financing mechanism
  through public-private partnerships.

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Marine Electronic Highway Functional Diagram
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SUSTAINABLE FINANCING

• Partnership arrangements involving
• national government agencies
• shipping and maritime industries
• environmental/coastal resource managers
• data providers/data users/technology providers

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Financial Sustainability of the MEH

• Public Private Sector Partnerships

• Revenues from Products and Services

Considerations to Generate Revenues

• UNCLOS (Art. 26 and Art. 43)

• SOLAS (Minimum Threshold of NAVAIDS)

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MEH Demonstration Project
7 Components, 26 Activities Duration 4
years Geographic Scope Sector 1-9 STRAITREP
Area
Hydrographic survey Sector 1-6
The Partners
Indonesia Malaysia Singapore GEF World
Bank IMO IHO PEMSEA INTERTANKO
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MEH Demonstration Project
Specific Objectives
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MEH Demonstration Project
Specific Objectives
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Some Expected Outputs of the MEH Demonstration
Project

• Software including
• MEH administrative and management mechanism
• Partnership arrangements
• Sustainable financing mechanism
• MEH Fund blueprint
• Proposal for MEH full-scale development project

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Some Expected Outputs of the MEH Demonstration
Project

• Hardware
• Operational pilot MEH system, including
• 1 DGPS station
• 2 AIS stations
• 1 offshore station for oceanographic data
• Upgraded tide stations with telemetric
  capability
• High resolution hydrographic data and ENCs
• 3 MEH Data Centres

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Regional Marine Electronic Highway Project
Phase 1 Straits of Malacca and Singapore
Stage 1- Demonstration Project
Stage 2 Full-scale Development
Project Phase 2 Extending the MEH in other sea
areas