This paper researches the status of legal regulations for owners of inland waterway traffic in Kien Giang province. Using field surveys, it includes inspection and sanction results from Marine Department inquiries focused on the waterway owners. On this basis, this paper proposes measures to raise civil liability for marine vehicles operating on the inland waterway of the province. | Enhancing understanding about civil liability for inland waterwway transport vehicles owner in Kien Giang province AGU International Journal of Sciences – 2019, Vol. 7 (2), 91 – 100 ENHANCING UNDERSTANDING ABOUT CIVIL LIABILITY FOR INLAND WATERWWAY TRANSPORT VEHICLES OWNER IN KIEN GIANG PROVINCE Vu Hong Van1, Nguyen Dang Son2 1 University of Transport and Communications 2 Tra Vinh University Information: ABSTRACT Received: 21/01/2019 This paper researches the status of legal regulations for owners of inland Accepted: 01/07/2019 waterway traffic in Kien Giang province. Using field surveys, it includes Published: 11/2019 inspection and sanction results from Marine Department inquiries focused Keywords: on the waterway owners. On this basis, this paper proposes measures to Civil liability, inland, raise civil liability for marine vehicles operating on the inland waterway of waterway transport, vehicles, the province. owners, Kien Giang, province Specifically, the reseach explores the current reality of the legal regulations of waterway owners in Kien Giang province through actual surveys using the marine police data. On that basis, proposal to improve civil liability issues are offered. 1. INTRODUCTION province has a relatively fast development traffic Kien Giang is a coastal province, located in density. Kien Giang currently manages 902,374 Vietnam’s south western Mekong Delta. It covers motorcycles, motorbikes and 21,381 cars and an area of more than 6, km2, with 15 4,649 vehicles of various types. districts, towns and cities and 145 communes, The inland waterway system are numerous with wards and towns hosting a total population of many routes to the sea. The coast is 200 km long, over million. The economy of the province is the sea area is 63,290 km2, including 145 islands, diversified: forestry, agriculture, aquaculture, large and small, with historical water adjacent to fishing, .
