The Bac Ky Joint-stock Investment Company will put Logistics Center with a Inland Container Depot (ICD) into operation from November 2009 in the Tien Son Industrial Zone (IZ), Bac Ninh province.

Ho Chi Minh City's Sea Traffic Police Department has recommended pressing criminal charges against those responsible for an incident in which a foreign ship crashed into a city bridge last week.

The Port Equipment Manufacturers Association (PEMA) and TT Club have announced that they will co-operate to promote best practice in the safe design and operation of port equipment worldwide. The agreement was finalised at PEMA’s recent AGM in Amsterdam, where Laurence Jones, Director of Global Risk Assessment for the TT Club, presented the results of his recent research into causes of equipment accidents and loss in the global port and terminal sector.

Fifty-five ports from around the world committed to reducing CO2 emissions and improve air quality at the closing session of the C40 World Ports Climate Conference held in Rotterdam July 9-11.

A sea rescue drill was conducted at the confluence of Nha Be River and Saigon River early this month. The drill enacted a scenario in which the Binh Minh was unloading goods when a fire broke out in the engine room as a result of a short circuit.

In order for ships in distress to be rescured as quickly as possible, and additional nine search and rescue stations will be constructed on islands off the coast of Vietnam by 2015 using VND210bn ($13.2m) of state budget money, as part of a plan to boost rescue operations at sea.

Three stations will be installed on the East Sea to warn of tsunamis threatening Vietnam’s coastline, said Nguyen Ngoc Thuy, Head of the Global Physics Institute

In direct response to the devastation caused by the Asian tsunami, the IAPH executive committee took the decision to commit its membership to a new resolution to mitigate the effects of natural disasters on member ports in the future

Vietnamese and US governmental delegations met last week to discuss the potential of a bilateral maritime agreement, the Lao Dong (Labor) newspaper quoted a source from the US Embassy in Vietnam.

Under the draft amendments to the Maritime Code, which were debated by the National Assembly full-time deputies on February 19, domestic and foreign organizations and individuals may invest in seaport construction.