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A high-speed ferry service connecting Da Nang city with Ly Son island off coast the central province of Quang Ngai was launched on March 29 by Phu Quoc Express JSC.

Ho Chi Minh City has suspended public transport for 15 days from July 9 to contain the spread of COVID-19.

A ceremony was held at Tac Suat Terminal in HCM City’s Can Gio district on January 4 to officially launch a ferry service between the southern economic hub and Vung Tau city, the capital of neighbouring Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.

After several delays, a ferry service between Ho Chi Minh City’s Can Gio district and Vung Tau city in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau will be put into operation at the beginning of January 2021.

Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha presided over the opening ceremony of the “MINE (Mission no Emission) Smart Ferry” project, which features an electric ferry route on Chao Phraya river and Thailand’s first smart pier at CAT Tower Pier in Bangkok’s Bangrak district.

A ferry service between HCM City’s Can Gio district and Vung Tau city in the coastal southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau will be put into service by the end of December.

The Deputy Governor of Bangkok has inspected the assembly of seven electric ferries that will be in service in December this year.

A rescue operation was launched by Philippine authorities on November 7 after a ferry with at least 60 people onboard capsized in rough seas.

A cargo ship with 24 sailors on board is missing after vanishing in waters off Indonesia’s remote Maluku islands, according to local authorities.

At least four people died and more than 30 others were missing after a ferry went up in flames off Indonesia’s Java island, an Indonesian official said on August 23.

The Philippine Coast Guard said August 3 that at least seven people died while 13 others were missing after two ferry boats sank earlier the same day in the central Philippines.

Acting President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh on September 25 sent condolences to Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli over a recent ferry accident on Lake Victoria in the East African country that claimed over 200 lives and left many missing.

At least 10 people were killed and 11 others still missing after a passenger ferry carrying 147 people caught fire and sank in central Indonesia on September 14.

Rescuers resumed search and rescue operations on July 4 after a ferry sank a day earlier in waters off the coast of central Indonesia.

At least 12 people, including two children, died after a ferry carrying over 139 passengers sank in waters off Indonesia's Sulawesi island on July 3, officials said.

Indonesia’s national search and rescue agency is scrambling to rescue 139 passengers from a ferry that sank off the coast of the island of Sulawesi, killing at least four on July 3.

The Indonesian search and rescue team using an underwater drone on June 29 found many human bodies and motorcycles in a ferry believed to be KM Sinar Bangun that sank in Lake Toba on June 18.

Indonesian authorities said on June 25 that they have pinpointed the location of vessel KM Sinar Bangun that sank a week ago in Lake Toba, one of the world’s deepest lakes.

One person was reported missing and four others were rescued when a boat capsized in Indonesia’s Lake Toba on June 22 evening, just days after another boat sank in the lake in Sumatra.

Indonesian Ministry of Transportation has decided to halt the operation of all tourism boats in Lake Toba in seven days to serve the search for victims going missing in a boat sinking accident on June 18.