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• Marine Traffic Control
• Search and Rescue
• Nautical Charts and Publications
• Traffic Separation Schemes/Principal Fairways
• Harbour Moorings
• Marine Refuse and Pollution
• Pilotage
• Aids to Navigation

Local Services

• Public Cargo Working Areas
• Marine Ferry Terminals
• Pleasure Vessels
  • Guidelines For Boaters - The Dos & Don'ts
  • Survey requirements and list of Class IV vessels issued with Certificate of Inspection
• Local Vessel Safety and Survey
• Marine Industrial Safety
• Location Plan of Typhoon Shelters and Sheltered Anchorages in Hong Kong (PDF)
• Typhoon Shelters

Port Operation Procedures

1. Procedure for a Vessel Entering Hong Kong Waters
2. Procedure for a Vessel Departing from Hong Kong
3. Pilotage
4. Carriage of Dangerous Goods
5. Search and Rescue
6. Port Controls by Other Government Departments
7. Establishment of Ship's Agent
8. Special Operating Conditions
9. Minimum Safe Manning Level on Ships while in Waters of Hong Kong

• Pre-arrival Notification (PAN)-
  Information to be provided to the Director of Marine before the Entry of :
  • a Convention vessel
  • a Mainland or Macau non-convention vessel
• Tanker Arrival Notice (TAN)
• Dangerous Goods Manifest format (PDF)
• Information of other Government Departments
• Format of Seatrial Application (PDF)
• Format of Deadship Application (PDF)
• Marine Department Notice No. 95 of 1998
  Entry & Clearance Procedures for Ocean Going Vessels(PDF)
• Marine Department Shipping Report General Declaration (MO618) (DOC)
• Marine Department Notice No. 181 of 1997 -
  Booking and Allocation of Harbour Mooring Buoys
• Marine Department Notice No. 126 of 1994 -
  Facilitation of "Fast Track" Procedures - Regulation of Agents