The VTS assists in the safe navigation of vessels approaching the ports of LA/LB in an area extending 25 miles out to sea from Point Fermin (LAT 33 42.3'N LONG 118 17.6'W). Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) Los Angeles-Long Beach (LA/LB) is jointly operated by the Coast Guard and Marine Exchange of LA/LB from the Vessel Traffic Center located in San Pedro. Return to Top VTS Los Angeles / Long Beach The OVMRS is completely voluntary and operates using a broadcast system with information provided by participants. VTS San Francisco also operates an Offshore Vessel Movement Reporting System (OVMRS). These regulations, developed with input from the Harbor Safety Committee of the San Francisco Bay Region, were designed to improve navigation safety by organizing traffic flow patterns reducing meeting, crossing, and overtaking situations in constricted channels and by limiting vessels' speeds. On, federal regulations went into effect establishing regulated navigation areas within the San Francisco Bay Region. VTS San Francisco is responsible for the safety of vessel movements along approximately 133 miles of waterway from offshore to the ports of Stockton and Sacramento. The Vessel Traffic Center is located on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay. The VTS New York area includes the entrance to the harbor via Ambrose and Sandy Hook Channels, through the Verrazano Narrows Bridge to the Throgs Neck Bridge in the East River, to the Holland Tunnel in the Hudson River, the Kill Van Kull including Newark Bay and all of Arthur Kill, and Raritan Bay. This VTS has the responsibility of coordinating vessel traffic movements in the busy ports of New York and New Jersey.
The control center at Sector New York is located at Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island, NY. VTS Lower Mississippi River is a unique Coast Guard Vessel Traffic Service because it maintains advisory service and direct control of vessel traffic with a workforce of highly trained and experienced civilian Coast Guard personnel with the assistance of pilot advisors. When the river reaches high water levels of eight feet in New Orleans, the VTS controls traffic at the Algiers Point Special Area (Mile 93.5 to Mile 95). The VTS provides advisory and navigational assistance services at all times in these areas of responsibility.
Within this VTS service area the VTS monitors the Eighty One Mile Point Regulated Navigation Area (Mile 187.9 to Mile 167 Ahead of Passes) and the New Orleans Harbor Sector (Mile 106 to Mile 88). Its area of responsibility spans from twenty miles above the Port of Baton Rouge (Mile 255 above the Head of the Passes) to twelve miles offshore of Southwest Pass Light in the Gulf of Mexico. VTS Lower Mississippi River manages vessel traffic on one of the most hazardous waterway in the United States due to the complexity of the marine traffic and the powerful currents of the Mississippi River. VTS LMR is a component of the Waterway Division of USCG Sector New Orleans. The Vessel Traffic Center is located in a high rise office building in the New Orleans Central Business District.
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