Resolute in management and maintenance of inland waterways

Currently, inland waterway management and maintenance units are actively implementing measures to extend the exploitation and use of inland waterway traffic works in the province, contributing to ensuring waterway traffic safety.

Inland waterway management and maintenance units install a sign system on the Chu River section through Thieu Hoa district for easy observation.

The province is currently managing and maintaining 23 rivers and canals, with a total length of 761km. Of which, the national inland waterway transport network has 8 routes with a length of 213km, and the local inland waterway transport network has 15 routes with a length of 548km. In addition, the province has 56 inland waterway terminals and 53 cross-river passenger terminals. Inland waterway transport activities in the province are mainly small and scattered on rivers through river mouths connecting with coastal waterways to the northern and central provinces. In order to ensure inland waterway traffic safety, in recent times, inland waterway management and maintenance units have installed 1,429 types of signs on the banks, on bridges, underwater and signal lights. The signs on the rivers are arranged appropriately, with clear colors, so that owners of vehicles can easily recognize them.

In the management work, the units have resolutely combined the task of controlling the operation of ports and inland waterway wharves with the management, maintenance, and regulation to ensure traffic safety and prevent collisions on inland waterway routes. At the same time, the units regularly check the routes and infrastructure systems of inland waterways, review damaged signal buoys on the routes, promptly repair and install additional signs, marker posts, buoys, and guide signs... to ensure the safety of ship and boat routes, and prevent accidents and collisions. Every year, the units managing and maintaining inland waterways coordinate with 15 districts, towns, and 2 cities with waterways passing through to organize propaganda and dissemination of legal regulations on inland waterway traffic and sign commitments to ensure order and safety of waterway traffic to the owners of works and ferry terminals carrying passengers across the river...

According to the representative of Thanh Hoa Inland Waterway Management and Traffic Construction Joint Stock Company, the management and maintenance of inland waterways is regularly implemented by the unit according to the plan to ensure the right quantity, type and location of the route and signs on the route. Every year, the buoy system is brought ashore, cleaned, rusted, checked, and supplemented with accessories and painted to ensure bright colors; some estuary buoys are pumped with anti-sink chemicals and covered with composite fibers... For inland waterway management stations, the company's affiliated regulation stations regularly check and monitor the situation of the waterways within the assigned scope. Thereby, detecting changes in the waterways and obstacles, promptly implementing measures to ensure inland waterway traffic. In addition, the stations coordinate with communes and towns to propagate and guide vehicle owners, wharf owners, construction owners and people to strictly implement regulations on inland waterway traffic order and safety. Along with that, units regularly monitor water levels, hydrology, and traffic flow on rivers.

To ensure the maintenance of inland waterway transport activities, the Department of Transport has proposed the Provincial People's Committee and the Department of Inland Waterways to implement projects to clear obstacles and dredge shoals to ensure safety and improve inland waterway transport capacity. On that basis, in 2021, the Department of Inland Waterways implemented the project to clear reefs in the Han Temple area on the Len River, section Km46+400 - Km49+200, with a total investment of 38.4 billion VND. In 2023, the project to dredge to ensure traffic at the Lach Sung estuary - Len River route, section Km2+600 - Km5+200, with a total investment of 17.8 billion VND will be implemented. Currently, the Department of Transport is continuing to propose to the Ministry of Transport and the Department of Inland Waterways to consider implementing dredging projects to ensure waterway traffic in the shallow sections of Km2+800 - Km5+300 of Lach Truong estuary, Tao River with a total investment of 16 billion VND; the section from Km1+00 - Km2+00 of Lach Bang - Dao Me route with a total investment of 10 billion VND and the dredging and clearing project of the reef from Km0 - Km1+00 of Lach Bang - Dao Me route with a total investment of about 45 billion VND. At the same time, the Department of Transport is advising the Provincial People's Committee to include the Do Len Port Project (total investment of about 1,500 billion VND) in the list of calling for investment in developing transport infrastructure in the period 2023-2030. Along with that, conducting a review on river routes with a number of bridges that do not ensure the size of the clearance compartment according to waterway technical standards, many dangerous locations and potential traffic accident points, especially during storm and flood season, to have measures to handle and overcome.

With the drastic implementation of solutions in the management and maintenance of inland waterway traffic of the transport sector together with related sectors of the province, the locality has inland waterways to meet the freight transport needs of the people.

Article and photos: Le Hoi

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