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IMO Member State Audit Scheme 26-2-2018 to 5-3-2018

The audit of Myanmar was undertaken from 24/2/2018 to 5/3/2018, by three auditors drawn from Cyprus, India and United States. The scope of the audit included the flag, coastal and port State obligations of Myanmar in relation to the applicable IMO instruments to which it is a Party.

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The opening meeting was held at Yangon, Myanmar, on 26/2/2018. Those entities of the State that are involved in the implementation and enforcement of the provisions of the various mandatory IMO instruments and which were represented at the meeting were:

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The closing meeting was held on 5/3/2018 at Yangon, Myanmar.

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Members of the Audit Team

1.       Georgios Demetriades (Team leader)

2.       Aji Vasudevan (Team member)

3.       George Leeford Boone (Team member)

Involved Officials from the Member State

1.       Mr. Maung Maung Oo (Director General)

2.       Mr. Thaung Kyaing (Deputy Director General)

3.       Mr. Zaw Myint Thein (Adviser)

4.       Mr. Thaw Ka (Adviser)

5.       Mr. Ye Myint (Director)

6.       Mr. Soe Naing I (Director)

7.       Mr. Htay Lwin Oo (Director)

8.       Mr. Ko Ko Naing (Director)

9.       Mr. Aung Moe (Director)

10.     Mr. Thant Zin Oo (Deputy Director)

11.     Mr. Aung Kyaw Zan (Deputy Director)

12.     Mr. Htay Aung (Assistant Director)

13.     Dr. Theint Nandar Htet (Assistant Director)

14.     Dr. Thiha Thwin (Assistant Director)

15.     Dr. Swe Swe Aung (Deputy Director General)

16.     Ms. Khin Cho Cho Shein (Director)

17.     Mr. Han Win Aung (Assistant Director)

18.     Mr. Aung Aung Lay (Deputy Director)

19.     Mr. Thet Htay (Director  Retd)

20.     Mr. Maw Tun (IMO Retd)

21.     Ms. Kyi Kyi Zaw (Assistant Director)

22.     Lt.SG Soe Nyunt Thaw (Deputy Head)

23.     Mr. Zaw Htut Aung (Chief Instructor)

24.     Lt. Cdr Han Tun Aung (MRCC O/C)

25.     Ms. Khin Aye Myint (Executive Engineer)

26.     Mr. Aung Htike (Assistant Director)

27.     Ms. Than Than Win (Assistant Director)

28.     Mr. Aung Thein Win (Manager)

29.     Mr. Win Ko Ko (Chief Engineer -Mech)

30.     Mr. Aye Lwin (Inspector of Light house)

31.     Mr. Wai Zun Aung (Chief Surveyors)

32.     Mr. Aung Thet Naing (Translator)

33.     Ms. Hnin Ei Wai (Translator)

Instruction, Legislation

Instruction

Date Instruction No. Heading
08/01/2025 Marine Instruction 1/2025 မြန်မာ့ကမ်းရိုးတန်းသွားကုန်တင်ရေယာဉ်များတွင် ကုန်စည်တင်ဆောင်ခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ ညွှန်ကြားချက်
30/05/2024 Marine Instruction 2/2024 Amendments to the Protocol of 1988 relating to International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974
17/01/2024 Marine Instruction 1/2024 ဂဟေဆော်ခြင်းနှင့် ဓာတ်ငွေ့မီးသုံးဖြတ်တောက်ခြင်းတို့အတွက် အန္တရာယ်ကင်းရှင်းရေးဆိုင်ရာ ရေကြောင်းညွှန်ကြားချက်
30/08/2023 Marine Instruction 6/2023 ကျားဖောင်နှင့် ကျားဖောင်ဆွဲများတွင် AISနှင့် အချက်ပြမီး တပ်ဆင်ခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ ရေကြောင်းညွှန်ကြားချက်
23/08/2023 Marine Instruction 5/2023 Requirements & Qualification of Principals & Faculties, and Obligations of Maritime Training Centres
06/03/2023 Marine Instruction 3/2023 ပြည်တွင်းရေကြောင်းသွား ခရီးသည်တင်ရေယာဉ်တွင် စီးနင်းလိုက်ပါမည့် ခရီးသည်များ ဘေးအန္တရာယ်ကင်းရှင်းရေးအတွက် လိုက်နာဆောင်ရွက်ရမည့် အချက်များ
21/02/2023 Marine Instruction 1/2023 Training facilities’ requirements for Maritime Training Programmes
01/12/2022 Marine Instruction 6/2022 Further Extension of validity of the STCW Certificates of Myanmar seafarers serving onboard during the COVID-l9 pandemic
19/08/2022 Marine Instruction 5/2022 Amendments to the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for seafarers, 1978 (STCW 1978) and the seafarers’ training, certification and watchkeeping code (STCW Code)
17/08/2022 Marine Instruction 4/2022 Further Extension of validity of the STCW Certificates of Myanmar seafarers serving onboard during the COVID-l9 pandemic
09/06/2022 Marine Instruction 3/2022 Further Extension of validity of the STCW Certificates of Myanmar seafarers serving onboard during the COVID-l9 pandemic
24/05/2022 Marine Instruction 2/2022 မြန်မာ့ကမ်းရိုးတန်းသွား ရေယာဉ်ဝန်ထမ်းများအတွက် မြန်မာ့ကမ်းရိုးတန်း သင်္ဘောသားမှတ်ပုံတင်နှင့် လုပ်သက်မှတ်တမ်းစာအုပ် ပုံစံအသစ်ဖြင့် ပြောင်းလဲထုတ်ပေးခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ ရေကြောင်းလမ်းညွှန်ချက်
08/03/2022 Marine Instruction 1/2022 Further Extension of validity of the STCW Certificates of Myanmar seafarers serving onboard during the COVID-l9 pandemic
01/12/2021 Marine Instruction 11/2021 Further Extension of validity of the STCW Certificates of Myanmar seafarers serving onboard during the COVID-l9 pandemic
03/11/2021 Marine Instruction 10/2021 Extention the validity of the certificates of Myanmar registred vessels trading in international voyages and near coastal voyages during COVID -19 Pandemic
28/10/2021 Marine Instruction 9/2021 Safety of Navigation for Certain Categories of Ships
12/08/2021 Marine Instruction 8/2021 Further Extension of validity of the STCW Certificates of Myanmar seafarers serving onboard during the COVID-19 pandemic
17/06/2021 Marine Instruction 7/2021 Procedure for Issuing Instructions to the Recognized Organizations (ROs)
16/06/2021 Marine Instruction 6/2021 Extension of validity of the STCW Certificates of Myanmar Seafarers currently serving onboard engage on International Voyages during the COVID-19 Pandemic
31/05/2021 Marine Instruction 5/2021 Instructions to Recognized Organizations
28/05/2021 Marine Instruction 4/2021 Specific Instructions to Recognized Organizations
24/05/2021 Marine Instruction 3/2021 Implementation of An Effective Oversight Programme of Recognized Organizations
01/04/2021 Marine Instruction 2/2021 Extension of validity of the STCW Certificates of Myanmar seafarers currently serving onboard engage on international voyages during the COVID-19 pandemic
26/02/2021 Marine Instruction 1/2021 Extending the validity of the certificates of Myanmar registered vessels trading in international voyages during the COVID-19 pandemic
04/12/2020 Marine Instruction 5/2020 Extension of the validity of STCW Certificates of Myanmar seafarers currently serving onboard engaged in international voyages during the COVID-l9 pandemic
23/10/2020 Marine Instruction 4/2020 Extension of the validity of STCW Certificates of Myanmar seafarers who are currently ashore and intend to join the vessel engaged on international voyages during the COVID-l9 pandemic
01/10/2020 Marine Instruction 3/2020 Further extension of validity of STCW Certificates of Myanmar seafarers currently serving onboard engaged on international voyages during the COVID-l9 pandemic
17/08/2020 Marine Instruction 2/2020 Extending the validity of the certificates to the Myanmar registered vessels trading in international voyages during the COVID-19 pandemic
30/03/2020 Marine Instruction 1/2020 Extending the Validity of STCW Certificate of Myanmar Seafarer, onboard the vessel trading in international voyage, who are affected by the restrictions arisen from the outbreak of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus
12/12/2017 Marine Instruction 1/2017 Requirement of annual Report for Flag State, Port state and Coastal State Performance and Evaluation
31/01/2008 Marine Instruction 1/2008 ေရေၾကာင္းဘက္ဆုိင္ရာေလ့က်င့္ေရးသင္တန္းမ်ား ဖြင့္လွစ္ျခင္း
Laws

Laws

Legislation

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THE MYANMAR MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT Myanmar Merchant Shipping Act
AMENDMENTS Amendments
THE MYANMAR REGISTRATION OF SHIPS ACT Myanmar Registration of Ships Act Amendments
THE CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY SEA ACT. The Carriage of Goods by Sea Act
THE BILLS OF LADING ACT The Bills of Lading Act
THE MYANMAR MERCHANT SHIPPING (WIRELESS AND TELEGRAPHY) RULES MSA (Wireless Telegraphy) Rules, 1937
Unification of Certain Rules of Law with respect to Collisions between Vessels Unification of Certain Rules of Law with respect to Collisions between Vessels (Brussels Convention)
THE MYANMAR LIGHTHOUSE ACT The Myanmar Lighthouse Act
THE MYANMAR TERRITORIAL SEA AND MARITIME ZONES LAW The Myanmar Territorial Sea and Maritime Zones Law
MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT LAW Multimodal Transport Law
INLAND VESSEL LAW IVL _Myanmar+ Eng .PDF
THE MYANMAR COASTAL AND INLAND
WATER TRANSPORT SERVICE LICENSE
LAW		 Business license law _Myanmar + Eng _PDF
THE CARRIERS ACT www.mlis.gov.mm
MYANMAR PORT AUTHORITY LAW www.mlis.gov.mm
THE CONSERVATION OF WATER RESOURCES AND RIVERS LAW www.mlis.gov.mm
NATURAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT LAW www.mlis.gov.mm
National Contact Point

National Contact Point

Competent National Authority Department of Marine Administration
National Contact Point Director
Maritime Safety, Security and Environmental Protection Division,

Department of Marine Administration

Ministry of Transport and Communications
Phone Duty Officer (Hot Line): +95 1 9010038      verification

Ph: +95 1 556097

Fax: +95 1 397641
Email sse-dma@e-motc.gov.mm

dma@e-motc.gov.mm
Address No-363/421, Corner of Merchant & Theinbyu Road, Botataung Township,

Yangon, Myanmar