Ensuring the safety of navigation on the inland waterways of regional importance in Saint Petersburg

Abstract

The topic of this work is the study of issues related to ensuring the safety of navigation on inland waterways of regional importance located within the territorial borders of St. Petersburg. The issues of improving various regulatory legal acts that have made it possible to increase navigation safety on the Fontanka River, Moika River, Zhdanovka River, Griboyedov Canal, Kryukov Canal and Zimnaya Kanavka are discussed. It is emphasized that the level of navigation safety on those waterways of St. Petersburg, which have received a new status — waterways of regional importance, has been significantly increased due to the extension of navigation rules for ships to them. It is recognized that the decisions to transfer these waterways for maintenance to a state-owned enterprise with many years of experience, which is the Federal Budgetary Institution “Administration of the Volga-Baltic Basin of Inland Waterways” and the need to determine the optimal guaranteed dimensions of ship passages using modern mathematical modeling methods, is quite correct and well-founded. In order to increase the level of navigation safety, it is proposed to ensure compliance with all the requirements of existing regulatory legal documents in the field of navigation safety in relation to navigable bridge spans. It is indicated that it is necessary to determine the estimated navigable level or the maximum navigable water level for bridge crossings and install all necessary navigation signs in the navigable spans for the safe passage of ships.