Technical Report No. 8 PORT AND SHIPPING

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Vietnam National Transport Strategy Study (VITRANSS)
Technical Report No. 8
Shipping and Ports
• Both the ports have recently developed container berths 14 to 15 meters
deep, which may accommodate vessels of at least 50,000 DWT or Panamaxtype
container ships (1,900-3,400 TEU). For instance, Port Klang has a 15meter
deep container berth capable of receiving vessels of 80,000 to 100,000
DWT with capacity of more than 6,000 TEU. It now has 67 direct line services
and 38 feeder services to/from 300 ports worldwide.
Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and the Philippines are also very keen on deep
seaport and containerization, while Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam, which do
not have deep seaports and modernized container berths, have ongoing studies
on port improvement/upgrading.
Table4.2.4
Gateway Ports of ASEAN Countries
Port/Country
No. of Berths
Conventional
Port Traffic 1997
1 Container
/
2 /
Total Length
of Berths (m)
Port Depth
(m)
Cargo Container
(000 tons) (000 TEU)
Muara/Brunei
Darussalam
4 3 861 10-11 2,379 84
Sihanoukville/
Cambodia
3 0 350 8 794 61
Tanjung Priok/
Indonesia
14 6 8,911 -12 28,643 1,820
Port Klang/
Malaysia
31 13 8,648 15 56,766 1,684
Yangon/
Myanmar
15 2 2,550 9 7,977 96
Manila/
Philippines
87 9 7,592 3.3-12.5 11,081 2,117
Singapore/
Singapore
43 37 n.a. -15 312,200 15,140
Laem Chabang/
Thailand
5 5 2,250 6.5-14 2,211 1,036
Saigon/
Vietnam
19 0 2,084 5.5-10.8 7,210 77
Source: ASEAN Transport and Communications Cooperation Framework Plan, 1999
Note 1/ Including oil, bulk, multifunctional berths
2/ Including exclusive berths for container handling