Currently, the An Giang Traffic Police oversee 259 inland waterway routes spanning over 2,430 kilometers, along with 573 inland ports, 9 ferries, and 142 river-crossing passenger terminals dispersed across the province.
Prioritizing preventive measures, the local waterway police regularly communicate with ferry and boat operators, captains and waterway passengers, explaining about waterway traffic regulations and instructing safety skills.
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| Police inspect waterway vessels. |
Waterway traffic officers also remind watercraft owners to comply with regulations on registration, regular check and waterway transportation license renewal of their vehicles to ensure the safety for transportation of passengers and cargo while strictly prohibiting vehicles without sufficient safety conditions from operating.
Additionally, the provincial waterway traffic police frequently carry out patrols on key waterways with high traffic volumes and complex issues to promptly detect and strictly handle violations of waterway traffic safety regulations.
In the coming period, the An Giang Traffic Police Force will further request passenger ferry operators to seriously comply with the Inland Waterway Traffic Law.
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| Police explain waterway traffic safety regulations to watercraft owners. |
Waterway traffic police officers will frequently check licenses of the crew of watercraft, registration certificates of vehicles, safety gear, including life jackets and lifebuoys, cargo and passenger capacity of operating vehicles while informing the crew of operating watercraft warnings of weather conditions, tides and sudden waves or winds.
The Traffic Police Division will send working groups to regularly patrol key routes and areas with more activities of passenger and cargo transportation and strictly penalize any breaches of safety regulations.