Section 9

to provide and maintain adequate and efficient port services and facilities in the port;

to regulate and control navigation within the limits of the port and the approaches to the port and to provide pilotage services;

to promote the use, improvement and development of the port;

to provide and maintain adequate and efficient lighthouses, beacons, buoys and other aids to navigation in the territorial waters of Singapore and the approaches thereto, at Petra Branco (Horsburgh), at Pulau Pisang and at such other places as the Authority may think fit;

to disseminate navigational information;

to provide, where expedient, a ferry service for the transportation of passengers, vehicles or goods within the territorial waters of Singapore; and

to carry out such other duties as are imposed upon the Authority by this Act and any other written law.[10