MTC launches draft regulation for river and lake transportation in Peru

The Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) has drawn up a new draft of river and lake transport regulations with the aim of updating the legal conditions of the sector and promoting formality in water transport.

One of the main impacts of the new text is that it establishes an adequate normative framework for the regulation of transport by rivers and lakes. In addition, the proposed improvements allow optimizing the national logistics chain, with which better mechanisms can be designed to operate in the national market through the services of water transport of goods and people.

The normative project also contributes to updating the regulation of river and lake transport services by simplifying the procedures and deadlines for obtaining the operating permit, among others.

Likewise, the MTC will benefit service providers and users by providing a legal framework that guarantees the quality of the river and lake transport service, as well as the safety of the people and cargo that are mobilized. Likewise, it seeks to improve the logistics of national transport.

This bill also provides an important boost to create a climate of legal security in favor of cargo owners, passengers, companies and communities, as well as foreign trade in general.

Currently, the regulation of water transport is found in Law No. 28583, Law of Reactivation and Promotion of the National Merchant Marine, which established the provisions to which water transport and related activities are subject, within which includes river and lake transport.

Within this framework, the Fluvial Transport Regulations were approved, which, to date, requires updating in order to make improvements in said service, according to the reality of water transport in the regions. For this reason, the MTC presented this new norm and hopes to count on the contributions of the stakeholders involved.