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Vietnam receives Japan-funded ship for fishery surveillance

Xinhua, August 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

Vietnam on Wednesday received a ship from the Japanese government as part of its non-refundable aid for the country to ensure maritime safety, according to Vietnam's state-run news agency VNA.

A ceremony was held to hand over the ship in Vietnam's northeastern Hai Phong port city, some 90 km east of capital Hanoi, on Wednesday.

The ship, HAYATO, is 56.13 meters in length and nine meters wide with a gross tonnage of 1,079 tons. The ship will be used by the Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance Force to "patrol, control and enforce fishery-related laws at sea", said VNA.

The ship is among the three ships in the aid package worth 500 million Japanese yen (nearly four million U.S. dollars). The other two ships are scheduled to be handed over to Vietnam within this year by the Japan International Cooperation System (JICS).

According to local media, Vietnam's coast guard has started receiving another three ships from Japan in the same aid package since this March.

Japan and Vietnam signed an agreement over Japan providing six used vessels and equipment for "ensuring maritime security" within an aid package worth 500 million Japanese yen for Vietnam, on Aug. 1, 2014. Endi