Shipping Safety Fairways and Anchorage Areas, Gulf of Mexico

Résumé

The Coast Guard is creating a new anchorage area on the eastern side of the Sabine Pass Safety Fairway, opposite the Sabine Bank Offshore (North) Anchorage area in the Gulf of Mexico south of Sabine Pass. This will help alleviate the need for in-bound deep draft vessels to cross the Sabine Pass Safety Fairway and navigate around a charted shallow area just to the southeast of the North anchorage. This rule allows deep draft vessels to enter and depart Sabine Bank anchorages on a safer, lower risk course.