Ship (Operation and Management) Bill, 2081 tabled in NA

KATHMANDU: Minister for Physical Infrastructures and Transport, Devendra Dahal, has tabled the ‘Ship (Operation and Management) Bill-2081’ in today’s meeting of the National Assembly.

He said although the United Nations General Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982 guaranteed equal rights of landlocked countries to the seas, dozens of international conventions have been implemented even after the execution of the Ship Registration Act, 2027.

Minister Dahal mentioned that national flag-carrier ship could not be registered as the Act did not incorporate the provisions of the convention. The bill was tabled as it was necessary to promote internal water transport by making arrangement of registration and regulation of cruise ships since different capacity of cruise ships are in operation at different rivers in Nepal, added Minister Dahal.