The Mekong Delta region is actively developing water-based transport as well as seaports in a bid to lower transport costs and ease pressure on land routes linking it with Ho Chi Minh City.
The Ministry of Transport recently gave the nod to a project which will upgrade a 253km waterway connecting Ho Chi Minh City with Kien Giang province through the Plain of Reeds and Long Xuyen Quadruple.
The scheme will also improve another water route 148km long running along the coastline from HCM City to the southernmost province of Ca Mau.
From now until 2016, the ministry will continue with its projects to upgrade Can Tho river port so that it can handle 650,000 tonnes of cargo each year and receive vessels of up to 10,000 tonnes.
Meanwhile, construction work on four more wharves in Cai Cui river port, which are designed to handle 2.5 million tonnes of cargo every year, is well underway.
Can Tho city is developing an international route on the Hau River, one distributary of Mekong River, linking it with the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, together with a network of local waterways, including Cai San and Xa No Canals, Can Tho, O Mon and Thot Not Rivers.
It is also dredging canals to make it easier for vehicles weighing five tonnes or more to move through, and building more wharves and stations in main rivers.-VNA
The Ministry of Transport recently gave the nod to a project which will upgrade a 253km waterway connecting Ho Chi Minh City with Kien Giang province through the Plain of Reeds and Long Xuyen Quadruple.
The scheme will also improve another water route 148km long running along the coastline from HCM City to the southernmost province of Ca Mau.
From now until 2016, the ministry will continue with its projects to upgrade Can Tho river port so that it can handle 650,000 tonnes of cargo each year and receive vessels of up to 10,000 tonnes.
Meanwhile, construction work on four more wharves in Cai Cui river port, which are designed to handle 2.5 million tonnes of cargo every year, is well underway.
Can Tho city is developing an international route on the Hau River, one distributary of Mekong River, linking it with the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, together with a network of local waterways, including Cai San and Xa No Canals, Can Tho, O Mon and Thot Not Rivers.
It is also dredging canals to make it easier for vehicles weighing five tonnes or more to move through, and building more wharves and stations in main rivers.-VNA
