Ministry of Public Works and Transport

General Department of Waterway-Maritime Transport and Port

KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA

NATION RELIGION KING

Contents

1. Outlines

2. Structure of General Department of Waterway-

Maritime Transport and Port

3. Main Responsibilities

4. Domestic Vessels

5. Challenges

6. Policies and Measures

7. Future Activities

8. Cooperation

1. Outline

1. Outline (Cont.)

2. Structure of General Department of Waterway-Maritime

Transport and Port

The General Department of Waterway-Maritime Transport and

Port (GDWTP) was established by Sub-decree No. 216 dated on

13 October 2016 on the Organization and the Functioning of The

Ministry of Public Works and Transport.

General Department of Administration

and Finance

General Department of Planning and

Policy

General Department of

Technique

General Department of Public Works

General Department of Land Transport

General Department of

Waterway-Maritime

Transport and Port

General Department of

Logistics

General Inspectorate

Ministry of Public Works and Transport

Inland Waterways Transport

Department

Merchant Marine

Department

Port Administration

Department

Waterways Infrastructure

and Port Construction Department

➢ Develop laws and regulations related to waterway-maritime transport

and port;

➢ Register ship with certificate of registration and other related

certificates to that effect;

➢ Provide operational license to domestic ships, or companies;

➢ Conduct ship inspection, survey, and maritime investigation;

➢ Be responsible for seafarer’s certification, which includes the

administration of waterway-maritime training schools/colleges, the

issuance of certificates of competency to seafarers or of certificates

of endorsement for seafarers, issuance of seamen books,

➢ Issue ship’s entry permit and perform port State control functions,

coastal State control, search and rescue, oil spills response;

3- Main Responsibilities

➢ Approve port’s plan, port’s construction plan, and issue port’s

operation license’;

➢ Be responsible for ships and port security requirement

compliance under the national and international laws and

regulations;

➢ Conduct hydrographic survey and produce electronic

navigation chart, and chart publication and notification;

➢ Design navigation channels and aid to navigation;

➢ Maintain navigation infrastructure (dredging…)

3- Main Responsibilities (Cont.)

4-Domestic Vessels

A. Coastal Vessels ( 1999-2017)

1. Cargo vessel (185)

2. Passenger vessel(157)

3. Fishing vessel(754)

4. Oil Tanker(4)

5. Pleasure yacht (3)

6. Trailing vessel(12)

In total: 1142 vessels

B. Inland waterway vessels (1997-2017)1. Cargo vessels (61), 56< 500T, 5>1000T

2. Passenger vessels(42 ) ,42<500Ton

3. Fishing vessels(0)

4. Oil Tanker vessels(7) ,7>500T

5. Trailing vessels(28) ,14<500T<12, 2>1000T

6. Pleasure Yacht(33) ,33<500T

7. Boat no machine(22) ,15<500T<4, 3>1000T

8. Sand drilling vessels(368) ,291<500T<19, 58>1000T

9. Tourist vessel(38) ,36<500T<2

In total: 557 vessels

5- Challenges

5.1 Challenges

1. Limited human capital in shipping industry and in government

2. Lack of laws and regulations to govern the maritime activities

3. Public involvement in implementing existing regulations very poor

4. Law enforcement still far behind acceptable level

5. Technical challenges for training of individuals specialized in ship building and safety in maritime affairs ( Not enough expert to train)

6. Lack of budget in capacity building and technology development R&D

7. Newly establish General Department, staffs and regulations needed

8. Passing the laws and regulations consuming a lot of time.

5.2 Policies and Measures to tackle challenges

❑ Existing Legislation:

• National Port Policy and Administration System;

• Sub-decree No. 40 on Ship and Port Facility Security;

• Prakas of an Act for the Registration of Merchant Vessels;

• Instruction No. 006 on Sea Shipping Management;

• Instruction No. 003 on Ship Management in Inland Waterway;

• Sub-Decree on Air and Noise pollution.

❑ Effort in public services

• Provide ship registration services to ships engaged in domestic,

bilateral, and international voyages;

• Issue ship inspection books, ship operational license to ships, and

to shipping companies;

• Issue certificates of competency to seafarers, and seamen books;

• Issue license of Ship building and repairs yard

• Issue license of Ship building to insure safety and clean

environment of ship

• Training officials and seafarers on safety and clean ocean every

year 2-3 times.

6-New policies and measures

❑Legislation in Approval Process:

• Draft Law on Waterway Transport, which covers all shipsnavigating in the Cambodia waters, regardless of sea or inlandwater;

• Port Act, which covers all ports in Cambodia, regardless of size;

• Draft Declaration on Port Facility Security, which is utmostsignificant for the compliance with the international code, towhich Cambodia is obliged;

• Draft Declaration on Formality and Procedure for ForeignVessel's’ Entry Permit.

6-New policies and measures

❑Legislation in Drafting Process:

• Draft National Policy on Maritime Transport;

• Draft Law on Maritime Transport, the main provisions of which

are related to the management and control over national flagged

ships, seafarers, shipping companies, and so on.

7-Future Activities

1. Follow-up and strengthening of the use of the National PortPolicy and Administration System;

2. Collect and compile statistics relating to ports and ships, andother port-ship related matters;

3. Promote the development of shipyards for ship construction,ship repairs, either at seaside or riverside;

4. Enhance the effective implementation of the Agreement onWaterway Transport between Cambodia and Vietnam Cross-border transport with Viet Nam in order to ensure freedom ofnavigation of ships entering to and exiting from Cambodia(Port of Phnom Penh in particular)

5. Accelerate the drafting and adopting all related laws and

regulations, especially those which are related to ship registration

and seafarers, port management and control; and to fulfill the

obligations set out in the conventions and other international rules

to which Cambodia is Party;

6. Promote and provide seafarers to work on board Cambodian

flagged ships or other foreign ships through the attraction of foreign

investment in establishing maritime schools or colleges;

7. Encourage private sectors to develop and use ports with the creation

of special economic zones, and other related services;

8. Ensure the good environment for maritime affairs, such as to reduce

the import tax for vessels, open for many other related services

even ship and cargo transport agents and brokers,

8- Cooperation

8.1. IMO

❑ Develop laws and regulations in relation to port State, flag State and coastal State and to implement the conventions/codes that

Cambodia is a party to;

❑ Build capacity for officials of GDWMP to be able to perform functions of waterway-maritime transport and port affairs under the national and international context;

❑ Prepare corrective action plan and action plan following to the outcomes of audit report made by IMP Audit Team (18 recommendations for corrective actions) and that the working group composing of officials from concerned ministries/agencies are sooner possibly established;

❑ Port EDI, of which the facilitation and internationalization for formality process for vessel calling at ports, and leaving from are significant.

8.2. ASEAN

❑ Develop minimum standards for training for seafarers, who can serveon board the ships engaged in Near Coastal Voyage of ASEANwaters;

❑ Other projects, action plan and strategies for development of maritime affairs – ships and ports, and seafarers;

❑ Other cooperation with ASEAN dialogue partners, such as China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, India, Russian Federation.

8.3. Gulf of Thailand Cooperation

❑ Adopt national policy and guidelines for the use of dispersants;

❑ Prepare Sub-degree for Oil Spilt Response and Preparedness;

❑ Prepare contingency plan for spilt

❑ Promote Coastal shipping development in the Gulf of Thailand –Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand.

8.4. RECAAP

❑ Conduct capacity build for officials who are working as nationaland local focal points for information sharing on armed robberyagainst ships and pirate;

❑ Strengthen work capacity for receive and respond to theinformation sharing situation.

8.5. Other

❑ Cooperate and facilitate all affairs of cooperation in the bilateralcontext (Vietnam, Thailand), or any other multiple context.

Thank You