Import service restrictions

Commodities:

• Used batteries to Haiphong
• Plastic scraps. Please consult our Maersk Line staff at » Offices & contact if you have this kind of commodity import into Vietnam.
• Metal scrap. Please consult our Maersk Line staff at » Offices & contact if you have this kind of commodity import into Vietnam.
• Frozen meat / poultry. Please consult our Maersk Line staff at » Offices & contact if you have this kind of commodity import into Vietnam.
• Weapons, ammunitions, explosive materials (excluding industrial explosive materials specified by the Prime Minister in the Government’s Document No. 1535/CP-KTTH of December 28, 1998), military technical equipment.
• Antiques.
• Narcotics.
• Debauched and reactionary cultural products; children’s toys badly affecting the personality education, social order and safety.
• Assorted firecrackers (excluding assorted signal fireworks for maritime safety and other needs according to separate regulations of the Prime Minister in Document No. 1383/CP-KTTH of November 23, 1998).
• Cigarettes, cigars and other forms of finished cigarettes.
• Used consumer goods, including the following commodity groups:
  - Textiles and garments, footwear, clothes
  - Electronic goods
  - Electro-refrigerative goods
  - Electrical home appliances
  - Interior decorative goods
  - Consumer goods made of ceramics, porcelain, crockery, resin, glass, metal, rubber, plastic and other materials. 
  - Used tyres. Please consult our Maersk Line staff at » Offices & contact if you have this kind of commodity import into Vietnam.
• Right-hand drive transport means (including those in knock-down form and those with drives already switched before their import into Vietnam), excluding special-use means operating in narrow spaces, including crane trucks, canal and ditch diggers, road sweepers, road-sprayers; dumpers, road-builders, passenger transfer vehicles at airports and forklifts at warehouses and ports.
• Used supplies and means, including:
  - Used engines, frames, tires and inner tubes, accessories and motors of automobiles, tractors, motorbikes and motor-tricycles;
  - Used internal combustion engines with a capacity of 30 CV or less; used machines fitted with internal combustion engines with a capacity of 30 CV or less;
  - Used chassis mounted with used engines;
  - Used bicycles to Haiphong.
  - Used motorbikes and motor-tricycles;
  - Used ambulances;
  - Used passenger cars of 16 seats or less (including those of a type designed to transport both goods and passengers with the passenger hold and the goods hold in the same cabin);
  - Passenger cars of above 16 seats, already used for more than five years counting from the import year;
  - Trucks with a capacity of under 5 tons (including those of a type designed to transport both goods and passengers with the passenger hold and the goods hold not in the same cabin), already used for more than 5 years counting from the import year;
• Products and materials containing asbestos of amphibole group.
• Special-use coding machines and coded software programs used to protect the State secrets.
• Liquid in plastic/metal tanks placed inside shippingline's container. Please consult » Maersk Line Hanoi prior for acceptance.

List of imports and exports that require Trade Ministry's permit:
• Ceramic and granite tiles sized from 400mm x 400mm downwards.
• Portland cement and clinker.
• Colour and transparent glass sheets of 1.5-12mm thickness.
• Printing paper coded 4801; printing paper and unmasked paper coded 4802.
• Some sorts of construction steel. Please consult us if you have this kind of commodity import into Vietnam.
• Purified vegetable oil.
• Purified and unrefined sugar.
• Complete two-wheel and three-wheel vehicles and SKD and CKD parts; incomplete vehicle frames.
• Vehicles of 16 seats downward.

Weight / Measurement:
There are no limitations in any port as long as the weight does not exceed maximum allowable payload as per Container Safety Certificate (CSC) plate.
Maersk Line must approve for acceptance beyond Container Yard (CY) due to road and bridge limitations.

Special Cargo:
For Out-Of-Gauge (OOG), Break-Bulk (B/B), please request ad-hoc feeder rates from » Offices & contact

Dangerous cargo:
Acceptable to all Vietnamese ports but subject to prior acceptance from transhipment port/ feeder carrier. Please contact » Offices & contact for more details.