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HCM City seeks clearance to $6-bn container port proposal in Can Gio

05 Jul '22
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Pic: Tavarius/Shutterstock
Pic: Tavarius/Shutterstock

Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City has sought clearance to a $6-billion international transit terminal in Can Gio district to handle large cargo vessels. The city’s municipal people’s committee recently wrote to Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, requesting him to ask the transport ministry to work with it and other agencies to assess the proposal’s advantages and scope.

To divert some global container transit activities to Vietnam, sea shipping company MSC/TIL, the Vietnam Maritime Corporation and the Saigon Port have submitted a proposal to develop an international transit terminal in Can Gio, the HCM City administration said.

The project is planned to be implemented in seven phases, the first of which is expected to begin in 2024 and turn operational in 2027. The last phase is scheduled to be put into use in 2040.

With about 7.2 km of wharves, this project is expected to handle 10-15 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of cargo, a news agency reported.

Between 2015 and 2020, cargo throughput in seaports of HCM City grew by 7.34 per cent, and the rate is predicted to be 5 per cent between 2021 and 2025.

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