Monday, 06/02/2012 GMT+7

In the morning of 6/11, in Quang Ngai Province, Dung Quat Shipbuilding Company (DQS) – Vietnam National oil and Gas Group hold a solemn ceremony for launching 104,000 DWT crude oil tanker – PVT MERCURY. This tanker dual classed with VR-ABS and is the largest tanker ever built in Vietnam.

On 11 January 2012, Vietnam Register (VR) sent Technical Information on Sea-Going Ships Ref. Number 002TI.E/12TB to Ship Owners/ Ship Operator, Maritime Electronics companies and VR's Ship Survey Offices."

 Technical Information on Sea-Going Ships Ref. Number 049TI.E/11TB
 Technical Information on Sea-Going Ships Ref. Number 048TI.E/11TB
 19th ACS Annual Meeting

Technical Information on Sea-Going Ships Ref. Number 003TI.E/12TB

On 16 January 2012, Vietnam Register (VR) has send Technical Information on Sea-Going Ships Ref. Number 003TI.E/12TB to Ship Owners/ Ship Operator and VR's Ship Survey Offices.

 Technical Information on Sea-Going Ships Ref. Number 047TI.E/11TB
 Dung Quat Shipyard launched largest vessel
 Protective coatings of dedicated seawater ballast tanks (Technical Information No 02TI/11TB)

Toyota Vietnam to recall 320 Camry 3.0 cars to check defects

Toyota Vietnam announced Nov 21 that it will recall 320 Toyota Camry 3.0 cars, for free checking and replacement of crankshaft pulleys that were found to create problems like noise and have steering defects.

 Motor Vehicle Inspection Activities in October 2011
 Car imports decline in 2010
 Automobile inspection and sanctions for excess emission permits

Setting up a single window system in martime transport

The Facilitation Committee, at its thirty-seventh session (5 to 9 September 2011),

 VR attended the 27th IMO Assembly Meeting
 14th Automotive Product Working Group Meeting
 Petersen to Head Naval Ship Classification Association
 IMO fishing vessel safety conference to be held in South Africa in 2012
 Vietnam is out of the Paris MOU black list

Singapore goes for early compliance 02

SINGAPORE has urged shipowners and port facility operators to comply with IMOs maritime security requirements under the International Ship and Port facility Security (ISPS) Code well before the stipulated deadline of 1 July 2004. “MPA targets to have all Singapore port facilities and SRS (Singapore Registry of Ships) to be compliant with the requirements of the ISPS Code and properly certified by April 2004,” Lee Seng Kong, senior director at the Maritime & Port Authority, told a maritime security seminar yesterday.

 IMO and US at odds over ISPS
 Singapore goes for early compliance