📋 Tender Overview
The draft of the new regulation establishes the provisions aimed at regulating the provision of the service to guarantee safe, efficient and quality operations.With the purpose of guaranteeing safer, more efficient and quality operations, promoting the sustainable development of aquatic tourist transport, the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) published the draft Regulation of Aquatic Tourist Transport.
The regulatory proposal, approved by Ministerial Resolution No. 873-2025-MTC/01.02, seeks to promote the formalization and regulate the provision of transportation service on navigable maritime, river and lake routes in the national territory, directly benefiting the providers of the tourist transportation service in aquatic environments, the users, the regional and local governments that apply it and the local communities that depend on this activity for their economic development.
The draft regulations; Likewise, it will replace the one approved by Supreme Decree No. 006-2011-MTC, which has regulated this service for more than a decade. The General Directorate of Policies and Regulation in Multimodal Transport (DGPRTM) of the MTC supported the need for this amendment in order to establish efficient and simplified procedures in water tourist transport to contribute to strengthening the transparency and efficiency of its management.
In addition, it will allow companies authorized by the MTC to be identified, access the platform for managing operating permits, which provides information about them, as well as security certificates, as well as the scope of service provision.
Likewise, it will facilitate the competent entities inspection of vessels suitable for navigation and provides companies with the possibility of consulting online the status of their procedures, permits and management resolutions, eliminating the need for in-person procedures.
The MTC invites citizens and actors in the sector to participate in the public consultation process of the regulatory project until December 18, 2025. Contributions and comments may be sent to the MTC headquarters (Jr. Zorritos 1203, Cercado de Lima), addressed to the Directorate of Policies and Standards in Aquatic Transport and Logistics; as well as to the email normamultimodal@mtc.gob.pe or through the virtual parties table (mpv.mtc.gob.pe).
The MTC reaffirms its commitment to the safe and responsible development of water transportation and the constant coordination with regional governments, the Peruvian Navy, the private sector and communities linked to tourism.
Consult the full document here: https://www.gob.pe/institucion/mtc/normas-legales/7467598-873-2025-mtc-01-02
