Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung inspects large fishing control ship

On June 4, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung inspected the large fishing control ship numbered KN 781, which has just been completed by the Ha Long Shipbuilding Company (Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation) and will be handed over this June.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung visits and inspects Fisheries Surveillance ship KN 781 at Ha Long Shipbuilding Company (Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation). (Photo: Duc Tam/VNA)

This is one of Vietnam's largest patrol ships, with a displacement of more than 2,000 tons. The ship has a helicopter hangar and landing pad for helicopters on patrols.

Being equipped with large patrol vessels will help the Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance force to be able to conduct long-term offshore patrols to support fishermen, as well as ensure law enforcement in Vietnam's waters.

Besides the KN 781 fishing inspection ship, a similar fishing inspection ship is also being built by Ha Long Ship Company and is expected to be delivered in July.

On the same day, speaking at a working session with leaders of the Shipbuilding Industry Corporation at the Ha Long-Quang Ninh Shipbuilding Company, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung requested the Corporation to continue focusing on restructuring, especially financial restructuring and debt settlement, production restructuring, job creation for workers; and promoting equitization of affiliated enterprises.

Besides, the Corporation needs to pay special attention to improving corporate governance capacity, ensuring the efficiency of production and business activities.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung emphasized that Vietnam is a maritime nation with a vast sea area of ​​over 1 million square kilometers. Aquaculture, fishing, oil and gas exploitation, maritime transport, etc. have brought great benefits to the people and to the cause of national construction and development.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung stated that developing the shipbuilding industry is a correct policy of the Party and State in the Marine Economic Development Strategy to serve and meet the needs of fishing, transportation, ensuring security and national defense at sea...

According to the Prime Minister, in recent years, the shipbuilding industry has made great strides. Vietnamese engineers and workers have built many generations of modern, high-quality ships in a short time. Therefore, we must continue to affirm and develop the shipbuilding industry, both to meet domestic demand and to meet export demands.

Vinashin’s weaknesses are not weaknesses of the shipbuilding industry but weaknesses in leadership and management, corporate governance, financial management, and investment management. These weaknesses have been seriously acknowledged and resolutely and strictly handled, affirming the viewpoint that we will not abandon the shipbuilding industry because of the above-mentioned weaknesses, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung emphasized.

From the above viewpoint, the Party and State leaders decided to restructure Vinashin, retaining it as the Shipbuilding Industry Corporation with 8 key enterprises, these 8 enterprises account for about 70% of the country's shipbuilding capacity.

In recent times, the Shipbuilding Industry Corporation has made great efforts in carrying out its assigned tasks, achieving many results in its operations. The Corporation has restructured its finances, restructured its production, reorganized its production, continued to maintain its production, maintained its shipbuilding capacity, divested its non-core investments... and at the same time, performed very well its assigned task of building fishing control ships, making a practical contribution to protecting the national sovereignty over seas and islands, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung praised.

Emphasizing that the fisheries surveillance ships of all sizes built by the Corporation's affiliated enterprises have been delivered with good quality and meet requirements, the Prime Minister directed the Corporation to continue to build and hand over the remaining fisheries surveillance ships according to plan, closely coordinate with the fisheries surveillance force to supplement the design of the fisheries surveillance ships to suit actual requirements; always be ready to perform assigned tasks of maintenance, repair, and construction of ships serving the fisheries surveillance force and coast guard.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung also stated that we always want to equip fishermen with bigger, more modern, safer boats, but must be associated with efficiency and ensure sustainability. Therefore, a pilot model of building steel-hulled fishing boats for fishermen has been implemented, and the financial mechanism for the pilot has also been implemented.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung directed the Corporation to continue to closely coordinate with relevant agencies and fishermen to build steel-hulled ships in accordance with the wishes and aspirations of fishermen, contributing effectively to the development of the fishing industry./.

According to VNA