THE CHARGE BRACKET FOR CONTAINER HANDLING AND TOWAGE SERVICES AT VIETNAMESE SEAPORTS

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The Ministry of Transport issues Circular No. 54/2018/TT-BGTVT on the charge bracket for pilotage, wharf, dock and mooring buoy utilization, container handling and towage services at Vietnamese seaports.

According to this Circular, the charge bracket for container handling and towage services Region I is:

– Charge bracket for domestic container handling services ranges from 120.000 – 940.000 VND/ container, depending on each type of the container and the status of emptiness or loaded;

– Charge bracket for container handling during import, export, temporary import and re-export (not applicable to Lach Huyen international port) is 16 – 98 USD/container,

depending on each type of the container and the status of emptiness or loaded;

– Charge bracket for container handling during transshipment and transit (not applicable to Lach Huyen international port) is 12 – 60 USD/container; depending on each type of the container and the status of emptiness or loaded;

The charges for container handling services specified above shall be levied on common freight containers; the handling service charge bracket levied on oversized and overloaded freight containers, containers that carry dangerous cargo and containers subject to special handling and storage requirements must not exceed 150% of that specified above.

This Circular is issued on November 14, 2018 and takes effect on January 15, 2019.