Partnership on Building a Harmonious Port

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Category: Ningbo News

Published: Tuesday, 21 June 2016 16:29

 Ningbo Port & Shipping Bureau and Ningbo Maritime Bureau signed an MOU on a coordination mechanism for consultation and joint coordination in terms of maritime and port and shipping affairs.

According to the agreement, the two sides will intensify cooperation on 13 areas including licensing management of shipping and port service sector, the building of pollution prevention and shore power, addressing emergencies arising from work on dangerous cargo and accidents, oversight of ship transporters and shipping safety operations and joint crackdown on illegal water transport. Cooperation areas expand further so that the two parties and draw upon each other’s strengths and harness synergy.

As two major law enforcement departments in water transport, the two authorities are committed to cooperation in many fields including water treatment and crackdown on water transport of hazardous chemicals. Visible results have been made and a sound partnership has been established, thus contributing due shares to the healthy development of orderly shipping and port industries.

Settlements of shipping and port issues through consultations and the coordinated mechanism on joint law enforcement act in line with the new normal facing the management of the shipping and port sector and keep the maritime economy fast yet sustainable