CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP ON STRENGTHENING TRANSPORT CONNECTIVITY AMONG CLMV -T CHARACTERISTICS OF COASTAL SHIPPING IN THE ASEAN REGION & COASTAL SHIPPING DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES Cdr Ang Chin Hup (R) Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA) Yangon, Myanmar 1 9 - 10 October 2018
PRESENTATION OUTLINE Coastal Shipping in ASEAN ➔ Geographical Characteristics of Southeast Asia ➔ Challenges of connecting the region Coastal Shipping Development Strategies ➔ The Philippines' RO-RO Network ➔ ASEAN Single Shipping Market (ASSM) ➔ JICA’s RO -RO Short Sea Shipping (SSS) Network 2
CHARACTERISTICS OF COASTAL SHIPPING Geographical Characteristics: ● Thousands of scattered, small, and isolated islands (Indonesia – 17,000; The Philippines – 7,000) ● Difficult access to local & regional markets ● High transport costs Challenges to Coastal Shipping: • Connecting archipelago region • Need to link the various sub-regions (GMS, IMT-GT & BIMP-EAGA) 3
CONNECTING ASEAN SUB-REGIONS Northern Sub-region: ➢ Great Mekong sub-region (GMS) comprising Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, & Yunan, China Southern Sub-region: ➢ The Indonesia, Malaysia & Thailand -Growth Triangle (IMT-GT) Eastern Sub-region: ➢ Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia & the Philippines-East Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) 4
ASEAN COASTAL SHIPPING STRATEGIES USAID, The Asia Foundation & The REID Study (2009) ➢ To improve air, land & sea connectivity within the Philippines ➢ Expanding her RO-RO network to Southeast Asia The Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (2010) ➢ To develop ASEAN Single Shipping Market by 2015 JICA Study in ASEAN (2013) ➢ To connect ASEAN by RO-RO Short Sea Shipping Network 5
THE PHILIPPINES RO-RO NETWORK • Linking the island economies of the Philippines • A Policy shift away from containerised shipping 6
EXPANDING THE PHILIPPINES' RO-RO NETWORK TO SOUTHEAST ASIA Expanding RO-RO Shipping route from ● Davao – General Santos (Philippines) to Bitung (Indonesia) USAID, The Asia Foundation & The REID Study 7
ASEAN SINGLE SHIPPING MARKET (ASSM) NETWORK 8
ASEAN SINGLE SHIPPING MARKET (ASSM) Challenges: Benefits: ● ASEAN ship-owners to engage in the Free movement of goods, services, • investment, capital & skilled labour domestic shipping within each other’s territory ● An integrated & competitive maritime Cabotage policies of nations within ASEAN • transport pose challenges to ASSM ● Strategies towards the integration of Need for ASEAN states opening up • ASEAN Single Shipping Market domestic shipping similar to those in the early days of EU ● Further liberalise shipping services in • Need of an ASEAN cabotage agreement the region 9
ASEAN RO – RO SHORT SEA SHIPPING NETWORK Priority Shipping Routes: ➢ Dumai (Indonesia) – Malacca (Malaysia) ➢ Belawan (Indonesia) – Penang (Malaysia) - Phuket (Thailand) ➢ The General Santos (Philippines) – Bitung (Indonesia) JICA Study in ASEAN (2013) 10
To compliment ASEAN container shipping network shipmap.org 11
CONCLUSION Coastal Shipping in ASEAN ➔ Geographical Characteristics of Southeast Asia region ➔ Challenges - Connecting Archipelago region Coastal Shipping Strategies ➔ Expanding Philippines RO-RO Network ➔ ASEAN Single Shipping Market (ASSM) ➔ RO-RO Short Sea Shipping (SSS) Network 12
CHARACTERISTICS OF COASTAL SHIPPING IN THE ASEAN REGION & COASTAL SHIPPING DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES Thank You Cdr Ang Chin Hup (R) angch@mima.gov.my Yangon, Myanmar 9 - 10 October 2018 13
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