Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam’s seaports handled anestimated over 689 million tonnes of cargo this year, up 4 percent annually,reported the Vietnam Maritime Administration.
During the year, the country’s fleet of cargo ships areestimated to transport nearly 160 million tonnes of cargo, marking an annualincrease of 3 percent, including 2.6 million TEUs of containers, up 8 percentyear-on-year.
Vietnam now has 1,516 seagoing vessels, 1,049 of them arecargo ships with a combined tonnage of around 9.3 million tonnes. The countrynow ranks fourth in ASEAN and 30th globally in terms of the numberof vessels.
The average age of Vietnamese vessels is 15.5 years, or 5.8years less than the world’s average.
So far this year, the Vietnam Maritime Search and RescueCoordination Centre has saved 60 vessels in distress with 765 people aboard,including 13 foreigners this year./.
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