Ministry of Construction requires strict control of fishing boats and tourist boats going out to sea

To respond to the tropical depression, the Ministry of Construction requires strict management of the departure of operating vessels, including transport ships and tourist ships.

On August 17, the Ministry of Construction issued a dispatch on responding to tropical depression in the East Sea. Accordingly, the Ministry of Construction requested the Vietnam Maritime Administration and Inland Waterways to direct Maritime Port and Inland Waterways Authorities to continuously monitor the developments and movement of the tropical depression to notify and guide ships when granting permission for ships to leave port.

At the same time, the Ministry of Construction requires counting and strictly managing the departures and maintaining regular contact with vessels operating in the area affected by the tropical depression, including transport vessels and tourist vessels, to promptly handle possible bad situations; checking the guidance on anchoring at the wharf, especially the anchoring area around the islands.

The Ministry of Construction also requested Electronic Information Company Limited. Shipping Vietnam directs the coastal information station system to monitor, update, immediately process information and promptly notify the location, developments and direction of movement of the tropical depression so that vehicles and captains of ships and boats operating at sea can proactively avoid, escape or not move into the danger zone.

Ministry of Construction requires strict control of fishing boats and tourist boats going to sea

Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center prepares forces and vehicles to participate in search and rescue when ordered.

Besides, Ministry of Construction Require agencies and units to organize 24/7 duty and regularly report to the Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Search and Rescue of the Ministry of Construction.

According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, at 1:00 a.m. on August 17, the center of the tropical depression was at about 16.7 degrees North latitude; 112.3 degrees East longitude. The strongest wind near the center of the tropical depression was level 6 (39-49 km/h), gusting to level 8; moving northwest at a speed of about 10 km/h. Forecast in the next 24 hours, the tropical depression on the mainland east of Hainan Island (China), moving northwest, speed about 15km/h. The strongest wind near the center of the depression is level 6-7, gusting to level 9. At around 1:00 a.m. on August 19, a tropical depression in the northern Gulf of Tonkin moved northwest at 10-15 km per hour. The strongest wind near the center of the depression was at level 6, gusting to level 8. From the next 48 to 72 hours, the tropical depression will not change direction, moving at a speed of 10-15km/h, gradually weakening in intensity. Impact of tropical depression, the western sea area of the North East Sea (including Hoang Sa special zone) has thunderstorms and strong winds of level 6-7, gusts of level 8-9, waves 2-3.5m high, rough seas. From the morning of August 18, the wind in the northern Gulf of Tonkin gradually increased to level 6, gusting to level 8, waves 2-3m high, rough seas.

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