"ID system to become mandatory for all boats on Turkish seas
The Search and Rescue Coordination Center will require a boat ID system for all vessels engaged in cabotage (transporting goods or passengers between two points in the same country) in Turkey.
Officials from the Undersecretariat for Maritime Affairs, under which the Search and Rescue Coordination Center operates, said the Automatic Identification System (AIS), which collects statistical, dynamics and navigational information on vessels to increase maritime security, went into effect for vessels engaged in international transport in August 2007."
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