Ha Long cruise tours canceled over storm Yagi

The People’s Committee of Quang Ninh issued an official notice to suspend sightseeing, entertainment, and swimming activities in Ha Long Bay from 11am on September 6.

The province also notified vessel and boat owners and captains operating at sea about the storm's location, movement, and safe routes to follow. They also conducted inspections and provide guidance on safe anchorage for ships and boats and had rescue forces and resources readily available to promptly respond to any adverse situations that may arise.

Districts and cities were urgently directing and urging the pruning of tree branches and reinforcing cages and rafts of aquaculture and fishing farms in riverside and coastal areas.

Yagi intensified into a super typhoon around noon on Thursday, with maximum sustained winds of 201 kph. The storm is expected to reach the northern Gulf of Tonkin by Saturday morning before making landfall between Quang Ninh and Ninh Binh areas.

The storm, which entered the South China Sea, which Vietnam calls the East Sea, on Tuesday, has rapidly strengthened, becoming one of the most powerful typhoons in the region over the past decade.