The Maritime Zones Act and the Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act were signed into law on Friday, drawing sharp criticism from China amid a long-running dispute between the two countries over the waterway.
“We anticipate stresses because international shipping will have to adjust their routes,” Philippine coastguard chief Admiral Ronnie Gil Gavan told This Week in Asia.
Speaking on Thursday, ahead of the signing, at the three-day Manila Dialogue on the South China Sea, Gavan also told his fellow coastguard chiefs from Indonesia, Malaysia and Japan that his side “will be playing great roles in enforcing these laws”.
Gavan anticipated that the legislation on archipelagic sea lanes would pose a greater challenge. “The Philippines is an archipelagic state with 7,641 islands and we have so many routes normally used for international navigation,” he said.
“We anticipate the stresses this law will bring when the international or the global shipping [corporations] will have to adjust their routes to these specific routes defined by the law.”
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