The Ministry of Finance issued a Circular regulating the depreciation of maritime infrastructure assets.

According to the Circular, maritime infrastructure assets are determined in terms of original price, remaining value, and depreciation according to the provisions of this Circular, including: 1. Ports, buoy terminals; 2. Headquarters, service facilities, warehouses, yards, factories, and other auxiliary works in the port area; 3. Traffic information system, communication system, and electricity and water system in the port area; 4. Maritime traffic monitoring and coordination system (VTS); 5. Breakwaters, sand-blocking dykes, diversion dykes, shore protection dykes; 6. Maritime channels, pilot boarding and disembarkation areas, quarantine areas; 7. Transshipment areas, anchorage areas, storm shelters in seaport waters; 8. Other maritime infrastructure assets.

The determination of maritime infrastructure assets is regulated as follows: Independently used assets are determined as one asset. A system consisting of many separate asset components linked together to perform one or several specific functions, if any of them is missing, the whole system cannot operate, then that system is determined as one asset. In case a system is assigned to many asset management agencies, the asset assigned to each management agency is one asset.

The maritime infrastructure assets specified above are determined to be fixed assets when they simultaneously satisfy the following two criteria: 1- Have a usage period of 1 (one) year or more; 2- Have an original price of 30 million VND or more.

Maritime infrastructure assets must have asset records established to strictly manage physical objects and values according to the provisions of the law on management and use of public assets and relevant laws. The indicators on original price, depreciation, and remaining value of maritime infrastructure assets identified as fixed assets are whole numbers; in case the results of determining these indicators are decimal numbers, they shall be rounded according to the provisions of the law on accounting.

Each maritime infrastructure asset is an accounting entry. Accounting for maritime infrastructure assets must reflect and record full information on the original cost, depreciation, and residual value of the assets.

The Circular clearly states the List of assets, depreciation time and depreciation rate of maritime infrastructure assets as follows:

STT	List of maritime infrastructure assets	Time of use for depreciation calculation (years)	Depreciation rate (% per year)
1	Harbor	50	2
2	Buoy dock	20	5
3	Headquarters, service facilities, factories and other ancillary works in the port area
	- Level I	80	1.25
	- Level II	50	2
	- Level III	25	4
	- Level IV	15	6.67
4	Warehouse, yard	25	4
5	Traffic information system, communication system and electricity and water system in the port area	10	10
6	Station house, architectural structure (Operation house, construction work) directly serving the operation of the maritime traffic monitoring and coordination system (VTS)
	- Level I	80	1.25
	- Level II	50	2
	- Level III	25	4
	- Level IV	15	6.67
7	Breakwater, sand barrier, diversion embankment, bank protection embankment
	- Level I	80	1.25
	- Level II	50	2
	- Level III	25	4
	- Level IV	15	6.67
8	Shipping lanes, pilot boarding and disembarkation areas, quarantine areas	50	2
9	Transit area, anchorage area, storm shelter area in seaport waters	50	2
10	Other maritime infrastructure assets	10	10