Abstract:
Terengganu River estuaries are located on the east coast of peninsular
Malaysia facing the South China Sea. Terengganu River is important for
inland water transportation in Kuala Terengganu with has a two river
systems, Nerus River and Terengganu River channel their water into this
estuary. The major usages of this estuary are mainly for fishing, tourism and
cargo transportation. Due to increase the important of the river, the traffic is
increase and the risk for accident will increase. The safety of navigation in
Terengganu River should be priority because to avoid any losses of the life,
vessel, cargo and environment pollution. There is only certain study was
conducting the research that related of the safety navigation in Terengganu
River estuary but until now, there is no research to find out the probability of
risk accident and level of safety navigation in Terengganu River estuary.
Although, in Terengganu River has a Malaysian Maritime Enforcement
Agency (MMEA) for the Search and Rescue (SAR) operation but there still
has a loss when occur in accident. The determination risk of accident is
important for the awareness. From last three years data that collected from
MMEA and Marine Department the accident in Terengganu River estuary was
low in number but there still has occur an accident with the same case of
accident. In this data that the main accident to vessel in Terengganu River
estuary was grounding, collusion, sinking and heavy weather. The accident
might be happening because of the nature of the Terengganu River estuaries
with has a small, shallow and has the monsoon season. Total area of the
Terengganu River estuaries is approximately 8km2
; the depth of water is
average only 4m and has the monsoon season on the November until
January. Based on the accident cases and traffic number in the Terengganu
River estuary, probability risk can calculate and based on this probability the
safety of the navigation in Terengganu River estuary is determine.
