ENFORCE TO MONITOR WHARVES, BREAKWATERS
On 29, 2017, the Ministry of Transport issued the Circular No. 52/2017/TT-BGTVT on maintaining the maritime works with such of contents:
List of maritime works/parts that must be monitored include: Wharves, lighthouses, beacons, breakwaters, drift dikes, embankments, special class and class I works used for building new ships and repairing ships; Maritime works having signs of subsidence, cracking, incline and other threats. The monitoring of these maritime works includes the following contents: Location and date of monitoring, monitoring indicators and their limits (for example, deformation, subsidence, incline, cracking, sagging, etc.), monitoring time, frequency and other necessary information.
A maritime work maintenance plan on an annual basis or according to the planning period includes: Work maintenance; Periodic repair; Unscheduled repair. Within that, an annual maritime work maintenance plan shall be formulated and submit to the Vietnam Maritime Administration before May 30.
With regards to the maritime works owned by multiple proprietors, the owner of the maritime work parts shall maintain their own parts and shared parts of such works. When the owner leases out a maritime work to an organization or individual or authorizes an organization or individual to manage and use a maritime work, the responsibility for the maintenance must be included in an agreement.
This Circular takes effect on March 01, 2018.
