TO AMEND AND SUPPLEMENT THE PROCEDURE FOR PURCHASE OF A SEAGOING SHIP WITH STATE FUNDS
The Government issues the Decree No. 86/2020/ND-CP on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Government’s Decree No. 171/2016/ND-CP of December 27, 2016, on registration, deregistration, purchase, sale and building of seagoing ships on July 23, 2020.
According to the new regulations, the purchase of a seagoing ship with state funds shall be carried out according to the following procedure with 05 steps: Approving the ship purchase policy; Selecting a ship, estimating purchase prices and expenses related to the purchase transaction; Preparing, appraising and approving a seagoing ship purchase project; Deciding the ship purchase; Completing ship purchase procedures. The sale of a state-invested seagoing ship shall also be carried out in accordance with a procedure with 05 steps.
The certificate of deregistration of an inland waterway craft, for used VR-SB inland waterway craft is additionally required in a dossier for indefinite-term registration of a seagoing ship or a dossier for registration of a small seagoing ship.
Besides, the Vietnam National Register of Ships shall be used to record information relating to registered or deregistered seagoing ships, official-duty seagoing ships, submarines, submersibles, floating production storage units, and mobile offshore drilling units under regulations. The Vietnam National Register of Ships is made in the form of paper notebook and e-database.
This Decree takes effect on September 15, 2020.
