Four additional seaport projects to enter operation
(VOV) - The southern coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau will begin operations on four additional seaport projects this year boasting a combined design capacity of around 20–25 million tonnes.
The projects include Vung Tau Petro, Cai Mep-Thi Vai International, SSIT, and Gemalink’s first phase.
The province aims to process around 50.7 million tonnes of cargo and roughly 125,000 passengers at local seaports. More than VND4.2 trillion will be pumped into implementing the seaport projects in 2013—an increase of approximately 10 percent compared to last year.
The provincial port system’s overall length totals more than 20 kilometres. Last year, Ba Ria-Vung Tau border guards completed entry-exit procedures for more than 4,300 international ships with a total cargo volume exceeding 28 million tonnes, up more than 6.4 million tonnes compared to 2011’s figure.
Border personnel also finalized procedures for more than 900 domestic ships carrying 6.56 million tonnes of cargo, up 357,000 tonnes on 2011’s total.