March 15, 2017
One of the Three ships that will be used for sorely needed inland
waterway passenger transport in Rakhine State arrived yesterday at the
Ngalapway Jetty in Kyaukpyu.
The Kissapanadi 1 is one of three passenger ships donated by Japan to
Myanmar. A team of officials from the Rakhine Division of Inland Water
Transport are to be given a five-day course on operating the Japanese vessel,
after which the ship will be piloted to Sittway. The Kissapanadi has an
aluminum body, is 29.90 meters long, has a draught of 1.6 meters, capacity for
145 passengers and can travel up to 20 mph.
The Kissapanadi 1 passenger ship is worth 267.300 million Japanese Yen
and was transported from Kobe, Japan on the GRIEJ JE carrier craft.
The Ministry of Transport and Communications, in an effort to develop the
air and water transportation sectors in Myanmar, planned eight new projects
with Japan, agreeing to donate three passenger ships. On 12 September
2016, officials from the two countries signed the Exchange of Notes for the
project. The Kissapanadi 2 is scheduled to arrive in May and the arrival date
for the Kissapanadi 3 is still under discussion.
Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar
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