Saturday, 04/07/2008 GMT+7

An open letter to IMO secretary – General Efthimios Mitropoulos:

On the occasion of the 44th VR anniversary ceremony, the farewell party with former General Director – Mr. Nguyen Van Ban, who retired from the day of 1st May 2008, was organized at the VR's Head Office, in the afternoon 25th April 2008.

 The 44th anniversary ceremony of Vietnam Register
 Internal audit of VR quality management system
 BKI President paid visit to VR Headquarters

Launching of 700 TEU container vessel at Nam Trieu Shipyard

The launching ceremony of 700 TEU container vessel under the name of HEIMAR J was held at Nam Trieu Shipyard. This is the biggest container vessel which has been ever built in Vietnam and the first of eight vessels to be built between Nam Trieu Shipyard and Germany shipowner – Horizont Schiffahrtsgesellchaft mbH (MPC Group).

 Delivery of 53,000 dwt bulk carrier
 Newbuilding of 524 sea-going ships
 Steel cutting for construction of 10,900 DWT LASH carrier and two 6,800 DWT cargo vessels

Motor vehicle and railway vehicle certification activities

In the first four months of 2008, 410,036 vehicles were carried out with quality inspection by VR. 25,286 imported motor vehicles were carried out with quality inspection and certification by VR, including 18,339 new motor vehicles and 6,947 in-used ones. 70,433 new motorcycles and 8,025 working construction machineries were inspected.

 Motor vehicle certification activities
 Installation of testing device for motorcycle's emission
 Motor vehicle certification activities.

Cambodia authorized VR to carry out marine security works

On June 9th, 2004, the International Ship Registry of Cambodia has sent Letter of Authorization No.

 Japan releases North Korean ferry

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