New Port Entry and Exit Formalities
applied for Saigon Port
According to Decision no.55/2002/QD-TTg of Prime Minister
dated 23 April 2002 on applying the administrative procedural
reforms at ports belonging to Ho Chi Minh City on a trial
basis, new formalities for ships to enter/leave Saigon ports
will be applied as from 01 July 2002
I. Port entry formality:
When carrying out the necessary formalities for entry into
ports, ship owner or an authorized person shall procedure
and submit the following papers and documents:
a/ Original papers which shall be produced:
- Certificate of registry of ship;
- Certificate of technical condition safety;
- Dictionary book of crew members ( applied for Vietnamese
ship)
- Passports of crew members and passengers in case of passenger
ship;
- International certificates of vaccination of crew members
and passengers in case of passenger ship;
- Documents in relation to export-import goods, transit goods,
temporary import for re-export goods;
- Certificate of health quarantine;
- Certificate of plant quarantine;
- Certificate of livestock quarantine or Certificate of livestock
production of export country (if goods is livestock production).
b/ Papers and documents which shall be submitted:
- Declaration of arrival/departure (standard Form 1);
- Crew List (standard Form 2);
- Passenger List (standard Form 3);
- Ship stores Declaration (standard Form 4);
- Declaration of cargo and of luggage of crew members
- Declaration of international health quarantine;
- Declaration of plant quarantine;
- Declaration of livestock quarantine;
- Declaration of equipment and instruments forbidden in use
during the period at port.
II. Port
exit formality
When carrying out the formalities to exit ports, ship owner
or authorized person shall produce and submit following papers
and documents:
a/ Papers which shall be produced upon request:
- Certificate of registry of ship (in case of any change as
compared with the time when the ship entered the port);
- Certificates of qualification of the captain, the officers
and other crew members (in case of any change as compared
with the time when the ship entered the port)
- Passports or list of crew members, and passports of passengers;
- International certificates of vaccination of crew members
and passengers in case of passenger ship ( in case of any
change as compared with the time when the ship entered the
port);
- Certificate of health quarantine;
- Certificate of livestock quarantine or Certificate of livestock
production (if goods is a livestock production)
- Documents in relation to export-import goods, transit goods,
temporary import for re-export goods
- Receipts or other lawful documents evidencing the payment
of all related debts
b/ Papers and documents which shall be submitted:
- Declaration of of arrival/departure (standard Form 1): One
copy
- Crew list (standard Form 2) : One copy (in case of any change
as compared with the time when the ship entered the port)
- Passenger List (standard Form 3) : One copy (in case of
any change as compared with the time when the ship entered
the port)
- Ship stores Declaration (standard Form 4) : One copy
- Declaration of luggage of crew members : One copy
- All permits issued by the Port Authority or other State
administrative organizations or agencies at the port to the
ship, its crew members or its passengers during the ship's
stay at the port (for the purpose of withdrawal of these permits).
Standard Forms
Issued together with Decision no.55/2002/QD-TTg
dated 23/04/2002 of Prime Minister.
