3.1 Conduct navigational risk assessments and propose modifications in maritime shipping routes and other risk reduction measures.

         Identify needs in improvement and expansion of signaling equipment (buoys, beacons, lighthouses, etc.) and identify investment opportunities for SAP.

To regionalize navigational safety communications capability by helping to establish common regional communications protocols, and assisting in starting national communications centers, to improve the overall security of maritime transport in order to avoid ship collisions in busy corridors, as well as to enable monitoring, surveillance and control of fishing and other commercial vessels, navigational routes and sea lanes, and incidences of coastal pollution. Assistance in the areas of VHF/HF radio, radar, and Automated Identification System (AIS), and electronic navigational charts, will help establish this regional communications capability and assist compliance with the new IMO/ISPS standards to be implemented by July 2004.