Capacity Building Workshop

on Strengthening
Transport Connectivity
among CLMV-T
9-10 October 2018,Yangon, Myanmar

State and Challenges

in Coastal Shipping (Myanmar)
Dr. Myo Nyein Aye
Deputy General Manager, Myanma Port Authority
Ministry of Transport and Communications
 Outline of the Presentation

 Basic Information
 Administrations and Legal Aspects
 Coastal Shipping Industry in Myanmar
 Challenges in Coastal Shipping
 Recommendations and Conclusion
Basic Information

Country Profile
 Location
 Situated in South East Asia between
latitude 9˙32’ and 28˙31’ N
longitude 92˙10’ and 101˙11’ E
 Total land area 676,557 km2
 Total Land boundaries 5,876 km
 Total length
South to North 2,090 km
East to West 936 km
 Total coastline 2,228 km
 Continental shelf 228,000 km2
 Territorial sea 486,000 km2 (EEZ)
Basic Information

 Myanmar also possesses the FIVE major

rivers for inland water transport:
 1) Ayeyarwady River,
 2) Chindwin River,
 3) Thanlwin River,
 4) Sittaung River and
 5) Kalardan River.
 Total length of rivers is approx. 8000
miles
 Navigable waterways is about 2000 miles
 More than 400 river ports.
Basic Information

 Myanmar has a total of

nine ports catering mainly
for its seaborne and
coastal trade
 spreading over the whole
coastline
 Yangon is the main port
city of Myanmar (former
capital city)
 Administrations and Legal Aspects

Administrative Organizations
 Department of Marine Administration (DMA)
 Myanma Port Authority (MPA)
 Marine Police
 Navy
 Administrations and Legal Aspects

Administrative Organizations
 Department of Marine Administration (DMA)
 Implementing and solving issues relating to the maritime affairs
including maritime safety, maritime security, marine
environmental protection
 Effective implementation of the Flag State, Coastal State, Port
State and seafarers affairs on behalf of the Ministry of
Transport and Communications, Myanmar.
 Registration of Vessels
 Issuing Safety Certificates of Vessels
 Issuing Transport License of Vessels for the Permit to Ply
 Maintaining the data of Vessels, Cargo and Passengers in
Maritime Transport
 Administrations and Legal Aspects

Administrative Organizations
 Department of Marine Administration (DMA)
 Issuing Certificates and Documents for Coastal Ships

 Cargo Ship Safety Equipment Certificate  Load Line Certificate

 Cargo Ship Safety Radio Certificate
 Life-Saving Appliance Certificate (LSA)
 Safety Management Certificate (SMC)
 Passenger Ship Safety ‘B’ Certificate
 Document of Compliance (DOC)
 Minimum Safe Manning Document
 Tonnage Certificate
 Safety Construction Certificate
 IOPP (International Oil Pollution
Prevention) Certificate
 ISPP (International Sewage Pollution
Prevention) Certificate
 Passenger Ship Safety Certificate
 Passenger Ship Certificate "A"
 Seaworthiness Certificate
 Administrations and Legal Aspects

Administrative Organizations
 Myanma Port Authority (MPA)
 Aids to Navigation
 Light House, Light Vessel and Light buoy
 Support and Maintenance of the Wharves and Jetties
 Determine the port limit, by notification
 Permission to navigate along the Yangon River
 Administrations and Legal Aspects

Administrative Organizations
 Marine Police
 The Department of Marine Administration collaborates
with Marine Police in maritime law enforcement.
 Marine Police was established on 28th June 2012 under
Ministry of Home Affair.
 It was provided Safety Training by Department of
Marine Administration.
 Strength is about 600.
 Stations are as follows:
 Yangon, Mandalay (River), Mekong (River)
 Pathein, Myeik, Sittwe, Kawthaung,
 Administrations and Legal Aspects

Administrative Organizations
 Navy
 As a Coast Gard
 Search and Rescue
 hydrographic survey and safety of waterways.
 ensuring safe navigation of sea passages
 preservation and circulation of nautical charts/ maps
 issuing advance warning to vessels
 Administrations and Legal Aspects

Administrative Organizations
 Chart scheming and published chart list by Myanmar Navy
 Administrations and Legal Aspects

Policy
 To conform national ships standards, safe practices and
standard of competence required of its marine
personnel.
 To promote development of human resources, man-
power planning and optimum utilization of such man-
power in the Maritime sector.
 To improve the safety record of Myanmar registered
vessels.
 To improve specific obligation to save lives in distress at
sea and protection of marine environment
 Administrations and Legal Aspects

Maritime Legislation in Myanmar

 The Carriers Act (1865)
 The Myanmar Carriage of Goods by Sea Act (1925)
 The Bills of Lading Act (1856)
 The Myanmar Merchant Shipping Act (1923)
 The Myanmar Registration of Ships Act (1841)
 Contract of the Law on the navigation at sea (1952)
 Myanmar Coastal and Inland Water Transport License
Law (2015)
 Inland Vessels Law (2015)
 Multimodal Transport Law (2015)
 Administrations and Legal Aspects

Implementing IMO Instruments in Myanmar

 Administrations and Legal Aspects

DMA supervises the implementation of:

 Coastal Shipping Industry in Myanmar

 Ships Registered in Myanmar

Foreign Going
Type of Ship 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18

Passenger - - - - - -
Cargo 16 17 14 12 11 10

Inland Water Transport

Type of Vessel 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18

Passenger 882 987 710 926 828 798

Cargo 2248 2651 1493 2090 1958 2186
Under 20
BHP Engine 30688 37812 35662 21091 26719 26887
Power
 Coastal Shipping Industry in Myanmar

 Ships Registered in Myanmar

Coastal Shipping
Type of Ship 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18

Passenger 18 23 22 20 22 23
Cargo 413 451 471 509 519 567

600

500

400

300

200

100

0
2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18
 Coastal Shipping Industry in Myanmar

Coastal Ship-owners Association

 Number of Ships
 Over 500 GT 162
252 ships
 Under 500 GT 90

 Number of Ship-owners
 More than 10 ships 1
 5 ~ 10 ships 2 152 members
 Less than 5 ships 149

 Note: not all the coastal ship-owners are members

 Coastal Shipping Industry in Myanmar

 Cargo traffic (only the ships from the association)

350000
Outbound Total
Inbound to
Year fron Coastal
Yangon
Yangon Traffic
300000

2006 84120 121378 205498

250000
2007 86818 116557 203375

2008 96648 78402 175050

Metric Ton 200000
2009 115342 149461 264803

2010 125792 140809 266601

150000
2011 137405 182882 320287

2012 97219 154952 252171 100000

2013 104792 136240 241032

2014 87060 120869 207929 50000

2015 68077 93253 161330

0
2016 82321 86361 168682 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
2017 55789 84146 139935 Inbound to Yangon Outbound fron Yangon
 Challenges in Coastal Shipping

Challenges related with Legal issues

Local
 Outdated Myanmar Merchant Shipping Act
 Need to development Safety regulation for the carriage of
dangerous petroleum
 Lack of Law Enforcement
 To formulate the Costal Shipping Development Law
(Cabotage Law)
 To simplify the Myanmar Registration Act.
 Challenges in Coastal Shipping

Challenges related with Legal issues

Regional/ International
 Implementation of Maritime Labour Convention – MLC 2006
 Implementation of Anti-fouling Convention
 Implementation of Costal Shipping agreement
 Challenges in Coastal Shipping

Challenges related with Organization & Human Resources

 Coastal Ship-owners Association should be encouraged to be
strengthening
 The shortage of the dockyard for Coastal Vessels
 Lack of human resources such as Naval Architect, Ship
Designer and etc.
 Lack of reporting procedure for data collection
 Challenges in Coastal Shipping

Challenges related with Infrastructure

 Capacity of wharves/ jetties for coastal shipping needs to
be improved
 Aids to Navigation along the coast line need to be
upgraded
 Lack of Infrastructure such as Shipyard, dock yard and
passenger terminals
 Port stay should be shortened
 To introduce the feeder service with container vessels/
barges
 Old existing tanker barges have to be replaced with new
modernized ones
 Challenges in Coastal Shipping

Other Challenges
 Lack of reporting procedure for data collection
 Insurance system for Coastal shipping has to be enhanced
 Tax and dues have to be reconsidered (such as transit fees)
 Financing for the building of coastal ships has to be preferable
 Coastal vessel Traffic Management and Monitoring system has
to be implemented
 Custom documentation procedures should be liberalized
 Recommendations and Conclusion

 Rules and Regulation

 to be developed for the carriage of dangerous petroleum by
Oil barge for coastal shipping
 to formulate the law for the Coastal Shipping Developing.
 Training
 to be conducted for human resource development in ship
building sector
 Coastal Ship-owners Association should
 take the leading role officially and legally with government
support
 actively participate in development of Coastal Shipping industry
 Recommendations and Conclusion

 Infrastructure Development for the Coastal Shipping

Industry
 Wharves
 Jetties
 Docks
 Aids to Navigation
 Administration supports
 Liberalize the documentation procedures
 Financing for new ship building for coastal
 Insurance System
 Capacity Building Workshop
on Strengthening
Transport Connectivity
among CLMV-T
9-10 October 2018,Yangon, Myanmar

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