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Technical Report No. 8 PORT AND SHIPPING

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I-4-16<br />

Vietnam National Transport Strategy Study (VITRANSS)<br />

<strong>Technical</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>No</strong>. 8<br />

Shipping and Ports<br />

(2) Excellent intermodal connection with their hinterland; and<br />

(3) Encompassing wide hinterland where strong economic activities are done<br />

in connection with the global markets.<br />

According to the VITRANSS traffic demand forecast, Vietnam will handle 6.6<br />

million TEU under the high-assumption scenario of the year 2020, which is<br />

further divided into three gateway port areas:<br />

<strong>No</strong>rth – 1.8 million TEU<br />

Central – 1.3 million TEU<br />

South – 3.5 million TEU<br />

Therefore, Vietnam will be able to create a new prime container port in the<br />

south until the year 2020 with the following development strategies:<br />

(1) Vietnam will intensively develop Vung Tau as a prime container port.<br />

Vung Tau is in premier location in the south due to its deep waters<br />

(possibly more than 15 meters), wide and many accessible navigational<br />

channels and enough land for port complex development including<br />

container terminals, warehouses and industrial estates.<br />

(2) The intermodal connectivity between HCM City and Vung Tau will be<br />

strengthened by inland transport development (road, rail and inland<br />

waterway), ICD operation and multimodal transport operation.<br />

(3) Presently many ports along Saigon, Nha Be and Thi Vai rivers handle<br />

container cargo at either conventional or container berths. However, the<br />

concentration of container cargo at Vung Tau will be very important to<br />

provide economic-scale benefits to shippers and consignees, i.e., more<br />

frequent shipping in/out their cargoes by larger container ships at cheaper<br />

prices.<br />

3) Increase in Handling Transshipment Container<br />

Foreign shipping lines’ preference to transship container cargo in Hong Kong<br />

and Singapore rests on five factors which this paper identifies thus:<br />

(1) Good port infrastructure and efficient port operation to minimize waiting<br />

and berthing time;<br />

(2) Reasonable transshipment charges;<br />

(3) Strategic location on the global/regional shipping network;<br />

(4) Many ship calls in connection with many ports around the world; and<br />

(5) Accumulated capital investment of foreign shipping lines.<br />

The Vung Tau port development will be able to satisfy the first and second<br />

criteria through necessary capital investment and policy incentives while<br />

some alternative transshipment function can be expected from Hong Kong<br />

and Singapore because of its location. However, the achievement of the

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