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A JICA study team on bathymetric survey held a meeting at the Myanma Port Authority (MPA) of the Ministry of Transport on 2 nd October 2008 to report on their bathymetric survey for salvages of sunken ships in Yangon Port after the cyclone Nargis. U Thein Htay, Managing Director of MPA, U Soe Tint, Managing Director of Inland Water Transport, U Maung Maung Oo, Director General of Marine Administration Department, U Kyi Soe, Managing Director of Myanma Shipyard, U Cherlie Than Rector of Myanma Maritime University and other government officials concerned, as well as officials of the Embassy of Japan and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) attended.
The sunken ships in Yangon Port impede inland water transportation of relief goods to the cyclone hit area. To deal with this situation, a bathymetric survey team dispatched by the Government of Japan to Yangon Port has engaged in survey work since the end of July to obtain information on the actual position of the sunken ships.
The survey team consists of six Japanese experts conducted the survey in Yangon Port starting from mid-August, working use of new survey equipments from Japan and a local boat. The Japanese survey team completed the work in all planned areas at Yangon Port by the end of September in cooperation with MPA.
At the meeting, the JICA study team reported to MPA the number of the sunken ships, their exact location and situation based on the results of their survey and the JICA study team will hand over to MPA the bathymetric maps covering Yangon Port and underwater obstruction map (approximately 25 k ? , scale of 1:5,000), for each site with map of impediments location such as sunken ships (scale of 1:1,000) by the end of this month. These maps would be use in MPA's further action.
The Government of Japan has so far decided to provide 33 million US Dollars to help the cyclone-inflicted people in Myanmar, of which 19 million US Dollars was already provided.
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