Impact of COVID-19 on the Inland Waterways and Review Recovery Solutions

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has appeared in Vietnam since January 2020. The pandemic has spread to all 63 provinces and cities in Vietnam. In this paper, based on the volume of freight and passenger transport of inland waterway transport (IWT) in 2020 and 2021, the impact of COVID-19 was investigated. The result indicated that the passenger transport deceased from 8.3% in 2020 and 27% in 2021 where the total volume of freight increased 19% in 2020 but decreased 6% in 2021. To promote the inland waterway transport, several recovery solutions for IWT are proposed and conditions for implement are also presented.