Ho Chi Minh City wants to step up cooperation with Belgium’s Antwerp province in the fields where the latter has strengths such as seaport development, smart urban building and renewable energy, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong has said.
A delegation from the central province of Binh Dinh introduced local economic and tourism potential and sought ways to boost trade and investment ties with US businesses during a working trip to the US from October 12 to 23.
The Indonesia Railway Development Consortium (IRDC) is planning to build a railroad at a cost of 28 trillion Rp (1.98 billion USD) connecting Laos with Vietnam.
The Lao Government has entrusted the Petroleum Trading Lao Public Company (PetroTrade) to conduct a feasibility study on a Laos-Vietnam railway project, the Vientiane Times reported.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved in principle the Hai Phong Port JSC’s plan to invest in the construction of container terminals 3 and 4 at Lach Huyen Port, Hai Phong city.
Nearly 600 tonnes of malt from France’s central Bourgogne-Franche-Comte region will be shipped weekly to Vietnam via a new waterway route linking an inland port in the French department of Yonne with Cai Mep seaport in Ho Chi Minh City.
The deployment of the Vietnam Automated System for Seaport Customs Management (VASSCM) will be completed in 2019, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.
An inauguration ceremony was held for the Vinh Tan international seaport in Vinh Tan commune, Tuy Phong district, the southern province of Binh Thuan on April 20.
Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The has supported the upgrade and expansion of Co Ong airport in Con Dao island district, in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.
The northern port city of Hai Phong is working to develop logistics services so that they will contribute 25 – 30 percent of its gross regional domestic product (GRDP) by 2030.
The construction of two key port projects worth more than 14.8 trillion VND (636.4 million USD) is scheduled to begin in the central coastal province of Quang Tri this year.
The revival of the Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) along with infrastructure will be a basis to help the country’s maritime giant to continue its ‘sailing’.
The Vietnam Maritime Administration has requested that associations, seaport companies and shipping companies be exempted or allowed to pay reduced service fees for containers stored at seaports for a long time.
The Ministry of Construction and authorities of the central province of Thanh Hoa announced on January 9 the adjustments to the planning of Nghi Son Economic Zone (EZ) until 2035, with a vision to 2050.
Economic and industrial zones in the central province of Quang Tri boast huge potential for attracting domestic and foreign investors. The attraction of investment in these fields is one of the locality’s top priorities.
The maritime sector should pay more attention to seaport planning, especially in the central and the Mekong Delta regions, said Transport Minister Nguyen Van The.
The fees for container loading and unloading services from ships to port yard at Vietnamese seaports will be adjusted from January 1, 2019, according to new regulations of the Ministry of Transport.
The volume of cargo passing through seaports across Vietnam rose by 19 percent to 478 million tonnes in the first 11 months of 2018, according to the Vietnam Maritime Administration.
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