Criteria for applying for permission to charter and use non-Thai vessels for marine transport require a maritime transport operator who has title over Thai vessels to notify the application for permission to charter and use non-Thai vessels to add the number of vessels on the route in the ordinary course of business.

     In order to comply with the Regulation of the Port Authority on the criteria and procedures for allowing persons ordering or importing goods from foreign country and carry such goods by non-Thai vessels B.E. 2464 (2021), there are four cases applicable as follows:

1. If state agency, government agency, or state enterprise orders goods from a foreign country, such state agency, government agency, or state enterprises shall submit an application themselves. If state agency, government agency, or state enterprises order and import goods and assign a shipper or any other person to carry out the order and import the goods, such shipper or assigned person shall apply for permission to carry goods by non-Thai vessel instead of the state agency, government agency, or state enterprise. 
2. If a person orders or imports goods for government agencies, such as in case a government agency orders goods from a domestic agent and the agent has ordered goods from a foreign country, etc., that person shall submit the application. 
3. If a person who is a contract party to a state agency, government agency, or state enterprise orders and imports goods as the performance according to the contract, such person shall submit the application. 
4. If a person orders and imports goods abroad for a person who is a contract party to state agency, government agency, or state enterprise as the performance of the contract, such person shall submit the application.

     Permission to use non-Thai vessels shall be issued to the person ordering and importing goods from foreign country.

Data updated on April 30, 2023 

Source: Digital Government Development Agency

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