Of the total figure, container throughput exceeded 2.2million TEU, an annual increase of 27 percent.
The Cai Mep – Thi Vai port in Ba Ria – Vung Tau provincerecorded the highest growth in cargo throughput, at 29 percent, followed by theHai Phong and Ho Chi Minh City ports, at 26 and 27 percent, respectively.
According to a representative from the Vietnam LogisticsBusiness Association, the volume of goods shipped by sea was affected by notonly the pandemic, but also the shortage of ship space and emptycontainers, and a slowdown in the Vietnamese export market and the globalsupply chains./.
