Containers of goods at a terminal of Hai Phong seaport (Photo: VNA) The overall goal of the plan, signedoff by Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha, is to gradually form and develop asystem of such facilities nationwide to meet the export and import transportationdemand, improve the goods handling capacity of seaports, and reasonablyorganise container transportation, thus cutting transportation costs, reducingthe goods storage duration at seaports, and ensuring goods safety.
The plan is also meant to help easetraffic congestion and protect the environment, especially in big cities andthe areas housing major seaports.
Under the plan, inland containerdepots will be developed into centres of goods transportation, transit anddistribution along with logistics services.
Among the concrete targets for 2030, the depot system will have a totalcapacity of 11.9 - 17.1 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) per year andbe capable of handling about 25 - 35% of the demand for container goods exportand import shipment along transport corridors.
The depots and depot clusters in thenorthern region will have a combined annual capacity of 4.29 - 6.2 millionTEUs, the central and Central Highlands regions 0.9 - 1.4 million TEUs, and thesouthern region 6.8 - 9.5 million TEUs.
By 2050, the depots nationwide are expected to be capable of handling 30 - 35% ofthe demand for container goods export and import shipment along transportcorridors, and meet logistics demand in localities.
Priority will also be given to thedevelopment of some depots on the transport corridors connecting with majorseaports in the north (such as Hai Phong seaport) and the south (such as theseaports of Ho Chi Minh City and Ba Ria - Vung Tau).
About 24.7 - 42.38 trillion VND (1 -1.8 billion USD) is needed to develop the inland container depot system by 2030,according to the plan which also outlines some solutionsin terms of mechanisms, policies, capital mobilisation, internationalcooperation, science - technology, environment, and human resources forimplementation./.
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