On September 9, Liaoning Province convened a televised coordination meeting on water transportation safety work, further deploying water transportation safety enhancement initiatives. The province aims to fully utilize coordination mechanisms' synergy, focusing on addressing collision risks between commercial and fishing vessels, as well as safety challenges involving yachts and passenger vessels, to ensure stable water transportation safety during the upcoming National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays. Vice Governor Wu Chungeng, the coordination mechanism convener, attended the meeting and delivered remarks.
In recent years, Liaoning has witnessed rapid development of new sectors including offshore wind power, yacht tourism, and recreational fisheries, leading to increasingly busy water traffic. As of September 1, ship arrivals and departures at Liaoning ports reached 383,200 vessel-times this year, representing a 48.7% year-on-year increase. With the approaching Mid-Autumn and National Day holidays, water passenger transportation is entering peak season. Combined with frequent severe weather conditions such as autumn gales and cold waves, safety assurance pressure has intensified.
The meeting deployed targeted strengthening measures. First, coordinated mechanism efforts will strengthen the operation of water transportation safety coordination mechanisms, consolidating responsibilities of local authorities, departments, and enterprises while enhancing situation analysis reporting and major issue coordination. Second, focusing on key vessel supervision, the meeting will solidly advance the three-year "commercial-fishing co-governance" initiative, strengthen grid-based fishery vessel safety management and Automatic Identification System (AIS) applications, reinforce passenger vessel supervision, and implement "one vessel, one strategy" dynamic tracking for key vessels. Joint yacht safety enforcement actions will be conducted to clarify regulatory responsibilities for new water-related business formats. Third, risk prevention and control will be strengthened by improving the dual prevention mechanism of hierarchical water transportation risk management and hidden danger investigation and remediation. The maritime department's management innovation advantages in "full-risk" prevention work will be leveraged to ensure unsafe vessels do not go to sea and unqualified crew members do not embark.
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