Implementing Directive No. 10/CT-UBND dated June 19 of the Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee on tightening and strengthening measures to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic in the city, the Department of Transport ) Ho Chi Minh City has issued notice 6346/TB-SGTVT for the organization of passenger transport by road and waterway from 0:00 on June 20 until further notice. The Can Gio – Vung Tau sea ferry is one of the waterways that must be temporarily suspended to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic. Accordingly, temporarily suspending road public passenger transport activities in the city, including: Buses, passenger transport vehicles on fixed inter-provincial routes and transit vehicles, taxis (Except for vehicles approved by the Department of Transport. announced activities to transport people to and from hospitals and medical centers in case of emergency), contract vehicles of less than 9 seats using technology application software to connect with passengers. Cases that are allowed to operate must meet the criteria for assessing the level of safety for transportation activities in the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic in the city. Specifically, for contract cars and tourist cars: All bus trips when operating must ensure the maximum transport of no more than 50% of the capacity, no more than 10 people/trip (Including drivers, staff, and passengers). car attendant). Passengers in the car must wear masks properly, sit alternately, sit apart from the seats and are required to make medical declarations according to regulations. Vehicles must be equipped with disinfectant solution to serve passengers. Perform disinfection after each transport and daily. Refuse to transport passengers who do not comply with regulations. Vehicles carrying workers must not exceed 20 people/trip For buses transporting workers, employees and experts, before the operation, they must be disinfected, the occupants must wear a mask, wash their hands with an antiseptic solution, and undergo a medical check before boarding. vehicle and medical declaration as prescribed. The head of the unit must specify and fix the route, trip, and occupants to ensure tracing when there is a Covid-19 epidemic situation. All trips must ensure the maximum transport of no more than 50% of the capacity, no more than 20 people / trip, sitting alternately, sitting apart from the rows of seats. Taxis are announced by the Department of Transport to serve the transportation of people to and from hospitals and medical centers in case of emergency and contract vehicles with less than 9 seats that do not use technology application software connected to passengers. Passengers must perform: Transporting no more than 50% of the capacity, all occupants of the vehicle must make a medical declaration and wear a mask when using the service in accordance with regulations. The vehicle is equipped with antiseptic water and disinfects vehicles daily. Refuse to transport passengers who do not comply with regulations. Do not use the air conditioning system and force open the car window during passenger service. The ferry port is open, it is mandatory for guests to make a medical declaration For water passenger transport: Suspend the operation of river bus routes, Can Gio – Vung Tau sea ferry routes, Saigon – Can Gio – Vung Tau high-speed train routes and river-crossing passenger terminals and inland waterway wharfs. passenger transport. Cases that are allowed to operate include: Ferry terminals (Cat Lai, Binh Khanh and Can Gio – Can Giuoc), passenger wharfs across rivers, inland waterways for passenger transport (Can Thanh – Thanh An, Can Thanh). – Thieng Lieng, Phu Xuan – Phuoc Khanh), but must meet according to the set of criteria to assess the safety level for transportation activities in the prevention and control of Covid-19 epidemic in the city. The maximum passenger transport must not exceed 50% of the vehicle’s capacity, all people on the vehicle must wear masks and make mandatory medical declarations according to regulations. Passenger transport business units, operators of bus stations, ferry terminals, river-crossing passenger terminals and inland waterway terminals, individuals and organizations using passenger transport services by road and waterway implement the above contents and regulations on prevention and control of Covid-19 epidemic.

The situation of overloaded watercraft is common, but the handling of the functional forces is not easy Heart attack with “beam train” In the early days of June 2021, at the post to regulate water traffic at Chuong Duong – Long Bien bridge cluster on the Red River, due to the start of the rainy season, the water level often changes rapidly. However, the situation of overloaded watercraft, especially sand, gravel and construction materials is very common. Many ships carry heavy loads, the hull is deeply sunken, causing water to overflow on the deck on both sides of the ship, feeling like a big wave or storm, the ship can sink at any time. “Every day there are several hundred ships carrying sand and gravel passing through here, there is no ship carrying a load. Every ship carries “beams”. Looking at the ships flooded with water on the floor made my heart flutter. Any train that goes near or recklessly passes when crossing the bridge to create a big wave, I don’t know what the consequences will be,” an employee of the regulation station said. The leader of the Water Traffic Regulatory Station at Duong Bridge said that from the beginning of the year until now, 5-6 cases of cargo ships having problems and being rescued by the rescue station at the above location are overloaded ships. “The stream over the Duong bridge flows fast and round, if the ship is weak and overloaded, the risk of accidents is very high. In the recent cases, if they were not saved in time and crashed into the bridge pier, I don’t know what the consequences would be,” said Mr. Tran Duc Hai, commander of the Duong bridge’s traffic regulation station. Mr. Tran Xuan Khoi, Director of the No. 1 Inland Waterway Management and Maintenance Joint Stock Company, also informed that most of the cases of vehicles having accidents ran aground or sunk at black spots such as Duc Bac reef, Van Lang bridge … are overloaded vehicles. Overloaded ships when traveling through complicated points and channel positions are easily passive and dangerous when avoiding each other or being pushed across by water. Through the camera, we discovered that the overloaded ship was the main “culprit” of flattening and drifting buoys in some dangerous channel locations”, Mr. Crew members of some construction material ships on the Lo River – Red River route admit that overloading is very dangerous, but for the sake of profit, they still have to take risks. “The owner of the sand mine when selling goods only measures the volume, not the size of the container, so he has to load the beams. I know it’s risky, but I have to take the risk,” said Tuan and the owner of the ship VP-xx35, saying that now every ship is overloaded, because carrying the right load, the right registration is not “racing”. with other ships. Hard to deal with Representatives of the above-mentioned waterway maintenance management units said that from the end of June to October every year, waterway traffic in the northern region is often more complicated due to entering the rainy and stormy season. Therefore, functional forces need to strengthen control and strictly handle overloaded watercraft to reduce the risk of traffic accidents and protect the lives of crew members. Mr. Khuong Kim Tao, former deputy chief of the Office of the National Traffic Safety Committee, said that overloading is also a direct cause of traffic accidents and incidents of watercraft when participating in traffic. Therefore, this situation needs to be dealt with immediately. “The regulations on the management and handling of violations of the load of watercraft are quite complete, but why is the violation of overloading still common?”, Mr. Tao questioned and said, the most inadequate today. is the handling of the unresolved authorities. Also, because it has not been implemented to force ships to unload, or to temporarily seize overloaded watercraft according to regulations, it leads to violation of the law. At this point, it is necessary to have a progressive sanction solution for violating watercraft carrying too many times, deducting fines from the account, income of enterprises and owners of violating means instead of having to “follow” the method. facilities for temporary detention,” suggested Mr. Tao. Mr. Luu Xuan Binh, former deputy head of the Office of Traffic Safety Committee in Hanoi shared, having directly surveyed the handling of water traffic violations many times, he witnessed the functional forces facing many difficulties. That is when sanctioning or suspending overloaded vehicles, it is not easy to organize unloading, while there is also no parking lot for vehicles to keep. “The control and handling of violations of overloading on waterways needs to be synchronized at all relevant stages, from the source of goods, ports, receiving terminals and means of transport. If only focusing on handling on the transportation journey will not be effective, “said Mr. Binh. According to Colonel Nguyen Vinh Giang, Head of the Department of Guidance on Traffic Control and the fight and prevention of crimes on waterways (Department of Traffic Police), it is necessary to increase the level of penalties to strictly handle violations of overloading. However, the current limitation is that the system of anchoring and keeping vehicles has been suspended from operation. “So, along with raising the level of fines, localities need to organize the anchoring and keeping areas of suspended watercraft in order to completely handle this situation,” Colonel Giang said. Increase the fine to 15 million According to a representative of the Vietnam Inland Waterway Administration, the current fine for overloaded vehicles is only 12 million VND. In the Draft Decree on handling of administrative violations in the field of waterway traffic (replacing Decree 132/2015), the highest fine level is set at 15 million VND.

The investor of the BOT Binh Loi – BOT waterway project in Ho Chi Minh City, with a total investment of about 1,300 billion VND – would like to stop the project without collecting fees. The reason given is that due to capital and port problems, the project is unable to collect fees as originally planned, and has no source of payback, so it asks the state to buy back. Binh Loi railway bridge before being dismantled. Photo: VNN Looking at the above reasons, Mr. Tran Do Liem – Chairman of Vietnam Waterway Transport Team said that it is very not good. “The investor of the project is in a stuck position, unable to recover capital, so he wants to return the project, not the state to buy back,” said Liem. The jam of the project according to Mr. Liem’s ​​analysis is that there is no port for toll collection. “As analyzed by the investor, in order to payback for the project, ships must go from Binh Loi railway bridge to Ben Tuc port and vice versa, as such, a fee will be collected when the vehicle enters the ports of An Son, Ben. Cuc and Rach Bap (Binh Duong). However, at present, An Son port has been partially built, Rach Bap port has not yet invested, and Ben Tuc port is being abandoned so there is no port for toll collection. Moreover, the investor has to borrow capital for the project, the interest the bank is having, but the project does not have a port to collect fees … the investor is having a hard time, “Mr. Liem said. From the above story, Mr. Liem also raised the question: Why is a project worth trillion dong being invested but there is no specific plan, no plans to collect fees and payback but still can do it? Answering the question above, Mr. Liem said that the project is the result of “just ask for”, “just do and count”. This needs to look at the responsibilities of both sides, because the investor himself, when implementing the project, has to fully calculate the possible options, can not have anything done, can not collect. capital return, ask for repayment. Who will take responsibility? Sharing with the difficulties of the business, however, pointing out two reasons that the project implementation was wrong from the beginning, Mr. Liem emphasized the reason why the project management board had to apply for the project to return. by the “get it, take it up to it” mindset, very strange. “First of all, it must be repeated since the information that Binh Duong province has approved the BOT fee collection plan for the Saigon river channel (the section from Binh Loi iron bridge – Ho Chi Minh City to Ben Tuc port – Binh Duong) at the price 70 VND / ton / km I said that this fee is unreasonable, it was wrong to start the project to renovate and upgrade the Saigon river channel and build a new Binh Loi iron bridge and collect the payback fee in the first place. It is unreasonable for the transport companies to use only part of the function of this river channel but have to bear the full fee to pay the investors back. Furthermore, water transport companies only use the Saigon River channel to move vehicles to Ben Tuc port but have to pay a payback fee for the construction of the Binh Loi iron bridge. This is like upgrading, covering a section of the road and then blocking the toll collection route as in road BOT projects. Next, the approval of the project without taking into account the plan of exploitation and reimbursement to the investor is wrong from both the investor’s side and the state management agency. The thought of applying for a project with a project or obtaining a project has led to the current confusion. Looking at the mining potential, there is absolutely no future. Inland waterway toll collection is vague, there is no specific regulation or specific price level. In addition, the source of vehicles to Binh Loi iron bridge mainly comes from Dong Nai, not much, plus the high fees will cause vehicles to find other ways. The mindset of both project execution and calculation is very dangerous, and both the investor and the management agency must be responsible, “said Mr. Liem. With this project, Mr. Liem said that it was a “good thing” and could not be stopped anymore. Therefore, both sides have to sit together, remove difficulties, find solutions to put the project into operation. It is more important, according to Mr. Liem, to handle responsibilities seriously with individuals and organizations involved in this project. “Obviously there are signs of asking – giving, a project does not have enough conditions to exploit business, has no plan to collect fees, the ability to recover capital but still deployed is emotional, irresponsible. This must be considered, clarified, responsible, wrong, wrong one must handle. The handling of responsibility is to avoid asking for messing around, causing waste, frustration, “he said. Integrity emphasized.

The traffic police conduct alcohol testing on the driver at the Phap Van – Cau Gie highway. Photo: Doan Tan – VNA

On the morning of April 15, the Traffic Police Department went to the army to implement the rush to ensure traffic order, safety and social order on the occasion of April 30, May 1, protecting the election of deputies to the National Assembly. XV and members of the People’s Council at all levels for the term 2021 – 2026.

During the 2-month peak phase (from April 15 to June 14), the Traffic Police Department will arrange forces to ensure traffic order, safety and social order on 3 traffic routes: Road, waterway, railway.

Major General Le Xuan Duc, Deputy Director of the Traffic Police Department, said that following the instructions of the leadership of the Ministry of Public Security on the task of ensuring traffic order and safety and protecting the election of National deputies. Term XV Association and People’s Councils at all levels for the term 2021 – 2026, the Traffic Police Department issued a plan to direct the national traffic police force to open the rush phase to ensure traffic order, safety and social order. On the occasion of April 30, May 1, defending the election of deputies to the XVth National Assembly, People’s Councils at all levels for the term 2021 – 2026 and a plan to hold a 75 day and night peak emulation to celebrate the election. dispatch; celebrates the 131th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh’s birthday.

In order to seriously and effectively implement this peak wave, Major General Le Xuan Duc requested the heads of units and all officers and soldiers in the traffic police force with the highest determination and mobilization. quality, vehicles, professional technical equipment to absolutely protect activities to celebrate 46 years of the liberation of the South, reunification, International Labor Day 1/5, celebrate 131 years Uncle Ho’s birthday, election of National Assembly deputies and People’s Councils at all levels; minimizing the number of traffic congestion cases, especially prolonged congestion, ensuring smooth and safe travel for the people during the holidays, not letting gatherings that cause insecurity and order, illegal racing.

The peak wave aims to create a clear change in traffic order and safety, creating a sense of law when joining in traffic, striving to reduce traffic accidents in all 3 criteria: number of cases, number of people death and injury compared to the preceding time and the same period of the previous year; Especially not to have particularly serious traffic accidents.

The Deputy Director of the Traffic Police Department also asked cadres and soldiers to strictly abide by the working procedures and regimes, the People’s Public Security Ordinance, to improve their professional qualifications and professionalism in performing their tasks. spread a beautiful image in the eyes of the people and the consensus of society. The results of the implementation of the above criteria are the criteria for commenting, evaluating the performance results, emulation and commendation during the peak phase and performing the tasks in 2021.

According to the plan, on the road, the traffic police will mobilize and arrange patrol and control forces, strictly handle violations of traffic order and safety, concentrated on dangerous roads. high risk of traffic accident, common time frames of accidents and “black spots” that present potential risks of traffic accidents; seriously and effectively complying with the direction of the leaders of the Ministry of Public Security on patrol, control and handling of violations according to the theme “The driver on the road that contains narcotics in the body, violates the concentration alcohol “and handle violations according to the thematic transport of overloaded, oversized, and arbitrarily renovated vehicles on the road. Traffic police force will exploit to the maximum and effectively the system of surveillance, image violation handling, load balancing and professional technical equipment that have been equipped to handle violations. self, traffic safety.

On the railway, the traffic police will actively coordinate with the authorities, the local police and the railway sector to inspect, control and handle violations that are the cause of the accident. traffic at crossroads, self-opening paths, places dangerous to railway traffic order and safety; coordinating with the railway industry in inspecting the observance of regulations on railway vehicles; in which, pay attention to technical safety inspection of crossroads protected by complicated automatic warning signals about railway traffic safety and order.

Traffic police must grasp the train operation situation and schedule, especially at intersections between roads and railways, where there are delegations of the Party and State leaders passing through, to promptly advise and direct the public. ensuring traffic order and safety for the election of deputies to the XV National Assembly and People’s Councils at all levels for the term 2021 – 2026.

On inland waterways, traffic police forces must increase their forces and means to patrol and control complex routes and areas; focus on goods transport, mineral resource exploitation activities, passenger transportation across rivers, along rivers, along fixed routes in key transport routes; ports and terminals are illegal or ineligible for operation; tourism activities, festivals, entertainment and entertainment on inland waterways; promptly handle activities causing unsecurity and order, illegally transporting weapons, inflammables, explosives, noxious substances … on waterways.

In addition, the traffic police force also needs to understand the situation, develop plans to mobilize, coordinate and arrange standing and standing forces at key intersections during the 30/4 holiday. and May 1 and election venues; promptly handle traffic situations, prevent prolonged congestion, especially during the election, on the main axes in and out of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, and on high routes. key expressways and national highways, such as: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 14, 18, 19, 20, 22, 51 …, Ho Chi Minh road; festival venues, bus stations, wharves, and stations have high traffic density, and congestion is occurring at the construction sites.

The traffic police force should coordinate with professional units to have plans to ensure traffic order and safety, lead a delegation of leaders of the Party, State, and National Election Council to inspect the public. voting, as well as protecting the movement of ballot boxes from the polling stations to the end of day gathering locations.

The Traffic Police Department requires the traffic police of units and localities to actively grasp the situation, analyze, evaluate and forecast the operation of the subjects violating the law on the intersection. inform; through patrol and control activities and coordinate with police units to promptly detect and arrest all kinds of crimes.

On behalf of the officers and soldiers giving an oath, Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Truong Son, Team Leader of the 2nd High Speed ​​Road Patrol and Control Division under the Road Traffic Patrol Guidance Department (Traffic Police Department) information), affirmed, the entire force will always uphold the morale, strictly obey the command and direction of the superior leaders, the process, working regime, the People’s Public Security Ordinance, ready to accept and successfully completed the assigned tasks.

The entire force will resolutely handle violations of traffic order and safety, especially violations that are the direct cause of traffic accidents; has proper attitude, respect, and behavior towards the people, calm, cunning, and courageous in handling situations in order to improve the power and beautiful image of the traffic police force./.