Vietnam: Provisional registration of ship according to Decree No. 171/2016/NĐ-CP

10:50, 12/07/2017

On December 27, 2016, the Government of Vietnam issued the Decree No. 171/2016/NĐ-CP on the registration, deregistration, purchase, sale and building of ships.

According to the Decree No. 171/2016/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, provisional registration of ship refers to the registration of a ship under the ownership of a Vietnamese or foreign entity for provisionally flying the Vietnamese flag in the following cases:

- Fees and charges have been not yet paid as regulated;

- It has no certificate of ship deregistration but has made a commitment in the ship purchase and sale contract that the seller will hand over the certificate of ship deregistration to the purchaser. In this case, the certificate of provisional registration of Vietnamese ship may take effect only from the date on which the purchaser and seller sign the written record of ship handover;

- A newly built ship is put for test or received for navigation to the place of registry on the basis of a shipbuilding contract.

Also according to Decree No. 171/2016/NĐ-CP, registration of small ship refers to the registration of a motor ship with the main engine power of less than 75kW or a non-motor ship with a gross tonnage of less than 50 GT or a dead weight of less than 100 tonnes or a design waterline length of less than 20 meters.

View more details at the Decree No. 171/2016/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from July 01, 2017.

- Thanh Lam -

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