CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP ON STRENGTHENING TRANSPORT CONNECTIVITY

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CHARACTERISTICS OF COASTAL SHIPPING IN THE ASEAN REGION & COASTAL SHIPPING DEVELOPMENT

STRATEGIES

Cdr Ang Chin Hup (R)

Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA)

Yangon, Myanmar

9 - 10 October 20181

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) Network2

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)

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CHARACTERISTICS OF COASTAL SHIPPING

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)

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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 Network5

THE PHILIPPINES RO-RO NETWORK

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• Linking the island economies of the Philippines

• A Policy shift away from containerised shipping

EXPANDING THE PHILIPPINES' RO-RO NETWORK TO SOUTHEAST ASIA

● Expanding RO-RO Shipping route from

Davao – General Santos (Philippines) to Bitung (Indonesia)

7USAID, The Asia Foundation & The REID Study

ASEAN SINGLE SHIPPING MARKET (ASSM) NETWORK

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ASEAN SINGLE SHIPPING MARKET (ASSM)

Benefits:

● Free movement of goods, services,

investment, capital & skilled labour

● An integrated & competitive maritime

transport

● Strategies towards the integration of

ASEAN Single Shipping Market

● Further liberalise shipping services in the region

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Challenges:

• ASEAN ship-owners to engage in the

domestic shipping within each other’s

territory

• Cabotage policies of nations within ASEAN

pose challenges to ASSM

• Need for ASEAN states opening up

domestic shipping similar to those in the

early days of EU

• Need of an ASEAN cabotage agreement

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)

10JICA Study in ASEAN (2013)

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To compliment ASEAN container shipping network

shipmap.org

CONCLUSIONCoastal 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) Network12

CHARACTERISTICS OF COASTAL SHIPPING IN THE ASEAN REGION & COASTAL SHIPPING DEVELOPMENT

STRATEGIES

Cdr Ang Chin Hup (R)

angch@mima.gov.my

Yangon, Myanmar

9 - 10 October 201813

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