The Vietnam Inland Waterways Administration organized a "Conference to disseminate and propagate the Vietnam - Cambodia Agreement on waterway transport and update related regulations and related contents in new legal documents."
Implementing the Agreement between the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Royal Government of Cambodia on waterway transport (Agreement) and in line with plan for 2023 and program for developing legal documents in 2023, Minister of Transport has issued Circular No. 13/2023/TT-BGTVT dated June 30, 2023 on amending and supplementing number of articles of the Circulars on guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Agreement between the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Royal Government of Cambodia on waterway transport.
On October 23, 2023, the Vietnam Inland Waterways Department organized a conference to disseminate and propagate the Vietnam-Cambodia Agreement on waterway transport and update related regulations and related contents in documents. new legal regulations in Ho Chi Minh City chaired by Deputy Director Tong Hoang Kha. Attending the conference were 90 delegates who were representatives of agencies, ministries and branches such as: Department of Legal – Inspection, Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Transport, Department of Customs Management Supervision, General Department of Customs , Border Gate Department, Border Guard Command, Customs Department of An Giang, Long An, Dong Thap provinces, Ba Ria – Vung Tau border guard station, Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Thap, Long An, An Giang, Vietnam Mekong River Committee, Departments of Transport of provinces: Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Thap, An Giang, Long An, Ho Chi Minh City inland waterway and maritime port authorities, regional port authorities Regions III, IV, Inland Waterway Sub-Department Region III and water transport associations and enterprises related to the Agreement’s transport routes.
After more than 12 years of operation since it was opened under the Agreement signed between the Governments of Vietnam and Cambodia, each year the two countries have processed procedures for tens of thousands of ships passing through, millions of tons of goods and hundreds of ships. Thousands of passengers pass through by waterway. Through the signing of the Agreement, the two countries have created their own legal framework for the route, effectively implementing freedom of navigation on the Mekong River to facilitate the transport of goods and passengers between the two countries. countries, as well as goods and passengers from third countries transiting through the territories of Vietnam and Cambodia.
With the Government’s development goals, Vietnam’s port cluster system has increasingly improved not only its infrastructure but also ancillary services to become a regional transit system, promoting its role as a gateway. eastern gateway of the Mekong basin countries. Therefore, waterway transport routes between the two countries play an increasingly important role in the multimodal transport chain with more reasonable, more reliable transport costs, more convenient transport times and contributing to reducing costs. The burden of investment and maintenance for the road system, as well as reducing the negative impact of road freight transport is causing congestion and high accident rates. In addition, waterway transport has been meeting the general trend of shifting freight transport in the world, which was highly agreed upon by the Prime Ministers of countries at the Coop 26 Conference, including Vietnam and Cambodia, which is to exploit benefit that nature bestows on the two countries, the waterway transport route on the Mekong River.
Timely dissemination of amendments, supplements, and new regulations in newly issued legal documents in the field of inland waterways is an extremely necessary task, helping to solve many problems, create conditions for implementing related content in the most effective way
Vietnam Inland Waterways Department has disseminated propaganda of the Vietnam – Cambodia Agreement on waterway transport and updated regulations and related content in Circular No. 13/2023/TT-BGTVT dated June 30 /2023 of the Minister of Transport amending and supplementing a number of articles of Circulars guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Agreement between the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Royal Government of Cambodia on waterway transport to relevant organizations and individuals; As well as updating you on the regulations that ministries and localities have specifically enacted to ensure the implementation of international treaties such as the Resolution of the People’s Council of Ho Chi Minh City on border gate infrastructure fees. Seaports, instructions on procedures for implementing online public services.
At the Conference, management agencies answered delegates’ questions about issues related to cross-border transport licensing, issues of infrastructure fees and vehicle fees.