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The China Maritime Safety Administration (China MSA) and the Hong Kong Marine Department held a friendly meeting in Guangzhou on June 21 and 22 to forge close co-operation in hydrographic matters between the two sides.
The meeting achieved co-ordinated consensus on the exchange of information for nautical charts and the coverage of paper nautical charts and electronic navigational charts (ENCs) involving waters of the Mainland and Hong Kong. Both sides will further look into the arrangements for selling each other's charting products.
The ENCs currently published by Hong Kong cover the whole of Hong Kong waters and are available for an annual fee of HK$830. Please refer to the website of the Hydrographic Office, Hong Kong (www.hydro.gov.hk) for details. Details of the ENCs published by the China MSA are available at www.chart.gov.cn.
Ends/Thursday, June 30, 2011
Issued at HKT 11:25
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