ONE MORE CASE OF EXEMPTION FROM ANCHORAGE CHARGES APPLICABLE TO SHIPS
The Circular No. 74/2021/TT-BTC on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Circular No. 261/2016/TT-BTC dated November 14, 2016 of the Minister of Finance on prescribing maritime charges and fees and the tariff thereof is promulgated by the Ministry of
Finance on August 27, 2021
Accordingly, to add a case in which the charge payers are exempted from the anchorage charges: Ships being anchored to wait to perform the medical quarantine before entering piers for handling cargoes, picking up or dropping off passengers or being forcibly anchored for isolation at the designated location at the request of a competent agency for the prevention, control and medical quarantine of epidemic during the epidemic announcement by a competent state agency.
Also, the charge payers shall be exempted from the maritime safety assurance charges applicable to ships in one more case as follows: Ships are dispatched by a maritime administration to move to another maritime area to perform the medical quarantine or isolation work at the request of a competent agency for the prevention, control and medical quarantine of an epidemic during the epidemic announcement by a competent state agency.
This Circular takes effect on October 12, 2021.
