HCM City has huge potential due to its strategic location to develop transshipment ports for oversized and heavy cargo from around the world, a conference has heard in HCM City.
Gemadept Group said it will continue to invest in expanding Gemalink International Port in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province and Nam Đình Vũ Port in Hải Phòng City.
Vietnamese ports handled a total of 59,338 vessels between January and July, an annual decrease of 3 per cent, reported the Vietnam Maritime Administration.
Quang Ninh will give top priority to positioning the brand name of seaports and seaport services in both domestic and international markets in a bid to reach its full economic and commercial potentials of deep-water seaports in the next years.
With more than 14,800km waterways, the Mekong Delta has great potential to develop port and logistics infrastructure, but it has yet to take advantage of it with the existing system lacking intra-regional connectivity.
The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Hậu Giang has approved changes to a project to build petroleum ports and warehouses in Châu Thành District’s Mái Dầm Town.
The volume of goods transported through southern ports has been rising by an average of 20 per cent a year in recent years, according to a report by Vietcombank Securities Company (VCBS).
The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Ben Tre is building new fishing ports and storm shelters and upgrading others to ease the overload on existing ones.
Development of major ports and port clusters will get priority in the new master plan for the country’s port system for 2021-2030, Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Nhat has said.
The HCM City Department of Transport has recommended that the People’s Committee should collect infrastructure fees at ports to fund improvements to their facilities.