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When using sea transport, ship owners must pay a maritime security deposit. So, what are the southern maritime insurance fees and northern maritime insurance fees?...Let's find out the above issue with PROSHIP.VN in the following article.
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What is marine insurance and marine insurance fees?
If you are also wondering, then let us explore the details of marine insurance and what the marine insurance fee is:
What is maritime assurance?
Maritime assurance (BĐHH) is the State agency responsible for proactively coordinating and implementing measures to ensure the safety of sea transport activities in Vietnam. The mission of BĐHH is to monitor, manage and implement safety measures to prevent maritime risks and accidents.
BĐHH originated from Hoa Dang Ty, founded in 1955. Hoa Dang Ty is the predecessor organization responsible for ensuring safety on the sea by managing lighthouses and lighthouses.
What is the marine insurance fee?
Maritime security fee is a fee that owners of ships and means of transport at sea must pay to support the costs of the Vietnam Maritime Safety Agency in maintaining and improving maritime safety. on the seaway.
Who must and does not have to pay insurance registration fees? When must there be a plan to ensure maritime safety?
Subjects must pay insurance registration fees
Enterprises invest in and exploit ship anchoring areas and transshipment areas
Enterprises that manage boat mooring areas and transshipment areas must also pay insurance fees. This ensures that both the mooring system and transshipment area infrastructure meet safety standards.
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Enterprises invest and exploit maritime channels
Enterprises that invest and operate in the field of maritime channel exploitation are the main subjects that must pay insurance fees. This ensures that the person directly responsible for the sea routes bears the majority of financial responsibility.
Organizations, individuals and state agencies related to maritime activities
In addition to businesses, organizations, individuals and state agencies involved in maritime activities, they are also responsible for contributing marine insurance fees to support the maritime marine insurance agency in performing its tasks of managing and maintaining safety at sea.
In what cases do you NOT have to collect maritime fees?
Cases where maritime insurance fees are NOT required to be collected:
1. Boats or canoes of passenger mother ships anchored in maritime areas are allowed to transport passengers into and out of seaports.
2. Vessels enter and leave seaports to provide first aid to patients, hand over people rescued at sea without loading or unloading goods, or picking up or dropping off passengers as confirmed by the maritime port authority; Vessels and boats participating in search and rescue, flood and storm prevention, and natural disasters according to dispatch orders or approval from competent state agencies.
3. Vessels handling cargo at the port or wharf must move to another maritime area based on the port departure permit of the maritime port authority to avoid emergency storms, and are exempted from collecting marine security fees on arrival and departure. departures at the port of arrival to avoid the storm and departures at the port licensed to escape the storm.
4. Vessels of foreign armed forces come to maritime areas for official or courtesy visits at the invitation of the State of Vietnam; Foreign youth ships come to maritime areas for cultural and sports exchanges at the invitation of ministerial-level agencies and ministerial-level agencies of the Vietnamese Government.
In what cases MUST HAVE a plan to ensure maritime safety?
Pursuant to Clause 2, Article 8 of Decree 58/2017/ND-CP stipulates:
Plan to ensure maritime safety
1. Before constructing and constructing seaports, wharves, wharves, buoys, water areas, and water areas, the investor is responsible for submitting to the competent authority for consideration and approval of the protection plan. ensure maritime safety and organize the implementation of the approved maritime safety assurance plan.
2. Cases where a plan to ensure maritime safety must be established:
a) Construction of seaports, harbors, wharves, buoys, navigation channels, maritime signals and water areas and water areas;
b) Construction of works that intersect seaport waters, navigational channels or works that affect maritime activities such as bridges, power lines, cable cars, underground works, drilling rigs, wind power , hydroelectric power, thermal power and other similar projects;
c) Construction projects and construction investments in Vietnamese waters affecting maritime activities...
How is maritime security regulated in Vietnamese law?
Maritime assurance in the South and maritime assurance in the North are guided in Article 108 of the 2015 Vietnam Maritime Code (effective from July 1, 2017), accordingly:
1. Ensuring maritime safety includes the following activities:
a) Organize and manage maritime safety assurance;
b) Providing maritime safety assurance services.
2. Organization and management of maritime safety assurance is the establishment and operation of a maritime safety assurance system, including planning, management of investment in infrastructure construction, and organization of exploitation. maritime safety assurance system; standardize, evaluate, and monitor the quality of providing maritime safety services.
3. Maritime safety services include:
a) Establishment, operation, maintenance and maintenance of navigational aids, navigational channels and maritime routes;
b) Survey, develop and publish nautical charts of seaport waters, maritime channels and maritime routes;
c) Notices to mariners;
d) Regulate and ensure maritime safety;
d) Develop and publish maritime safety documents and publications;
e) Maritime electronic information;
g) Marine pilot;
h) Maritime search and rescue;
i) Clearing obstacles affecting maritime safety;
k) Other maritime safety assurance services as prescribed by law.
4. Organizations providing maritime safety services must fully meet the conditions of equipment, financial resources, and human resources according to the provisions of law.
5. The Government regulates conditions for providing maritime safety services.
The Minister of Transport organizes and manages the work of ensuring maritime safety.
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