In July the large Chinese shipping company Cosco sent five merchant ships from the eastern Chinese port of Tianjin via the northern route, carrying components for wind energy plants to Europe. In August and early September the ships reached their destination ports in Belgium, Germany and England. For now the point of these voyages is to continue testing the feasibility of a regular shipping link. Nevertheless, Cosco is already planning to send far more ships via the north in future.
Another sign that the Northeast Passage could become established as a sea route in the near future came in September , when a major Chinese mineral corporation acquired a Experts believe that far more of these resources will be transported to China in future via the Northeast Passage. Currently it is still impossible to foresee what impact the development of this northern sea route will have on trade in Singapore in the next few decades.
Whatever the case, Singapore is endeavouring to diversify by introducing measures such as research promotion to avoid being too heavily dependent upon trade in future. Almost a quarter of international maritime trade flows are moved through this seaway, which is around kilometres in length and 50 kilometres in breadth at the narrowest point. Back to the page of origin The Strait of Malacca — a historical shipping metropolis. These initiatives do not merely represent a revival of collective memory, but rather the creation of networks to promote economic co-operation between Malays.
Malay businessmen from Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia thus met to establish an economic forum that took the form of a Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the serumpun Malays Dewan Perniagaan dan Perusahaan Melayu Serumpun These meetings aim to facilitate the exchange of technological and commercial information with the goal of creating circumstances that favour the creation of transnational enterprises. As a result of the political changes, the historic networks are being reorganized according to new procedures.
Considering the Strait as an inland sea allows us to go beyond the uniquely land-based territorial logic, which places the coastline at the periphery of the nation, and which assigns to it the function of a boundary.
Before we consider the strait, and more generally the maritime zone, as a breaking point, they should first be considered as a link. In the Malay World, the sea has never been seen as an obstacle. Margolin, Karl Hack and Karine Delaye eds. On contraband in the Strait of Malacca: N. Charrras, p.
The Strait of Malacca: an Inland Sea. Share on :. Fau The Strait of Malacca is a major axis in worldwide maritime traffic and a vital artery of intraregional commerce. The Strait of Malacca has strategic importance, too. Roughly a quarter of all oil transported by sea more than 15 million barrels per day passes through the s trait s and several countries in North East Asia, including China and Japan, rely heavily on the oil imports that pass through the straits.
Piracy has been a long -standing issue in the Straits of Malac ca; accounts of piracy in the region can be traced back to the 14 th Century. However, it was not until the late s that the issue came to the attention of the international community.
This was for 2 reasons. Firstly, the Asian F inancial C risis ravaged the region and forced many people living in coastal areas in Indonesia and Malaysia to turn to piracy. Secondly, several high-profile pirate attacks took place in the region, among the m the hijacking of the Petro Ranger in when en route from Singapore to Ho Chi Minh, which likely led to increased reporting by shippers in the region.
T he t hreat to shipping in the region has been reduced by individual responses from the littoral states in the r e gion, such as vigilant patrols and constant operations by Royal Malaysian Marine Police , and regionally coordinated efforts including Operation MALSINDO.
In ancient times, traders from Kedah used the monsoon winds of November and June to sail from shore to shore, and then used the December and the May winds to travel back. The term Malaccamax is used to define the maximum volume of a vessel that is able to pass through the Strait of Malacca. The strait is not large enough to allow the passage of large ships, especially oil tankers.
A ship whose volume exceeds the Malaccamax must use wider and deeper straits such as Lombok Strait, Makassar Strait, and the Mindoro Strait. Piracy is a common problem in the Strait of Malacca. The frequency of attacks has gradually increased from the s up until
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