Circular No. 10/2013/TT-BGTVT guiding a number of articles of the Government’s Decree No. 21/2012/ND-CP on management of seaports and navigable channels.

This Decree, consisting of 25 articles divided into twelve sections, implements Government’s Decree No. 21/2012/ND-CP on management of seaports and navigable channels. It establishes the following provisions: Naming and Renaming of Seaports, Offshore Oil and Gas Ports, Harbors, Wharves, Buoy Landing Stages and Water Zones and Areas (Sec. 1); Announcement of the List of Classified Vietnamese Seaports and Updating of the List of Harbors and Wharves of Vietnamese Seaports (Sec. 2); Supervision of Implementation of Master Plans and Plans, Construction of Seaports and Navigable Channels and Construction of Other Facilities in Seaport Waters (Sec. 3); Management of Ports, Inland Waterway Landing Stages and Fishing Ports in Seaport Waters (Sec. 4; Drawing and Issuance of Nautical Charts of Seaport Waters and Navigable Channels (Sec. 5); Regular Inspection of Quality of Seaport Infrastructure Facilities (Sec. 6); Planning, Construction Investment and Announcement for Use and Management of Operation of Navigable Channels (Sec. 7); Procedures for Inland Waterway Vessels to Enter or Leave Seaports (Sec. 8); Procedures and Regulations Applicable to Vessels in Trial Run and Berthing (Sec. 9); Procedures for Arrival at Seaports of Vessels of a Gross Tonnage of up to 200 Dwt and Flying the State Flag of a Country Bordering Vietnam (Sec. 10); Agencies Carrying Out Procedures for Foreign Vessels Transiting Vietnam to Cambodia and Vietnamese Inland Waterway Vessels on Exit to Cambodia (Sec. 11); Implementation Provisions (Sec. 12).