Before and after the recent Tet holiday break, the Da Nang Border Guard High Command’s staff members have conducted a large number of patrols to ensure maritime and political security, especially the ultimate safety of both locals and visitors, at border areas.

The handling of entry/exit procedures for cruise ship passengers in progress

Since 14 February, the staff members of the Tien Sa Port’s border gate guard station have effectively handled entry, exit and transit procedures, in a quickly fashion, for 10 cruise ships carrying a total of more than 8,000 foreign passengers.

According to Mr Nguyen Tat Thuong from the city’s branch of Destination-Asia, which specialises in arranging cruise ship arrivals to the city, most of the foreign cruise ship passengers to the city are elderly, around 60 years old and over. 

The arriving cruise ship passengers have always felt very comfortable and pleased with the professional working attitude of the staff of the Tien Sa Port’s border gate guard station in the handling of administrative procedures.

In particular, the border guards have made their great efforts to ensure the safety of a total of 10,000 visitors from the US, France, China, South Korea, the UK and Japan during their stay in the city’s coastal border locations for the holiday relaxation and travel purposes.

Since the Tet break, the border guards have paid special heed to conducting the checks over the operation of a total of about 800 tourist boat trips on the Han River, with over 15,000 passengers onboard.

Special attention has been paid to banning unlicensed boats from picking up passengers, and providing training courses for boat skippers and crew members.

According to the latest statistics released by the municipal Tourism Department, a total of 2,000 visitors take river tours every weekday evening.

Vu Van Long hailing from Son Tra District’s An Hai Dong Ward said, during his recent boat tour, the border guards enthusiastically reminded him and other passengers of wearing life jacket, and complying with other waterway tourism security regulations.

Importance will be attached to ensuring ultimate security during a friendship port call to Da Nang from 5 - 9 March by the US navy vessels at the permission of the Vietnamese government. 

The visiting ships are the carrier USS Carl Vinson, the guided missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain and the destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer, carrying a total of 6,500 officers and crew members onboard.

Special heed will be paid to ensuring the security during the 2018 Da Nang International Fireworks Festival which will take place from 30 April to 30 June.

Furthermore, greater efforts should be made to stay alert and keep up combat readiness to ensure social and political stability and security in the locality, continue handling entry/exit procedures at local border stations, and enhance sea border protection missions.