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Monday, 16 March 2009 | |
PORTS & SHIPPING
PORTS
SHIPPING
The Prime Minister has approved a list of the nation's sea ports, classified into 3 grades : -
Grade I Ports Cam Pha Port (Quang Ninh Province) Hon Gai Port (Quang Ninh) Hai Phong Port Nghi Son Port (Thanh Hoa) Cua Lo Port (Nghe An) Vung Ang Port (Ha Tinh) Chan May Port (Thua Thien-Hue) Da Nang Port Dung Quat Port (Quang Ngai) Quy Nhon Port (Binh Dinh) Van Phong Port (Khanh Hoa) Nha Trang Port (Khanh Hoa) Ba Ngoi Port (Khanh Hoa) HCM City Port Vung Tau Port (Ba Ria-Vung Tau) Dong Nai Port Can Tho Port
Grade II Ports Mui Chua Port (Quang Ninh) Dien Dien Port (Thai Binh) Nam Dinh Port Le Mon Port (Thanh Hoa) Ben Thuy Port (Nghe An) Xuan Hai Port (Ha Tinh) Quang Binh Port Cua Viet Port (Quang Tri) Thuan An Port (Hue) Quang Nam Port Sa Ky Port (Quang Ngai) Vung Ro Port (Phu Yen) Ca Na Port (Ninh Thuan) Phu Quy Port (Binh Thuan) Binh Duong Port Dong Thap Port My Thoi Port (An Giang) Vinh Long Port My Tho Port (Tien Giang) Nam Can Port (Ca Mau) Hon Chong Port (Kien Giang) Binh Tri Port (Kien Giang) Con Dao Port (Ba Ria- Vung Tau)
Grade III Ports (all 9 are in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province) Rong Doi Port, Rang Dong Port, Hong Ngoc Port, Lan Tay Port, Su Tu Den Port, Dai Hung Port, Chi Linh Port, Ba Vi Port, Vietsopetro No.1 Port.
Key ports being planned include : -
SOUTH
Cat Lai Port
In 2008 the District 2 port forecast a throughput of 2.2 million 20ft equivalent units or some 30 million tons of cargo. In 2007, it handled 1.8 million TEU, generating revenue of about USD$128 million, accounting for 65.54% of the total volume of containerized cargo throughput in the HCMC region and 42.87% of the national total. It is now the 39th biggest contain terminal in the world.
Cai Mep-Thi Vai
A survey undertaken by toe transport ministry indicates that if the river is dredged to a depth of 14 metres it could accommodate vessels of up to 80,000DWT but delays are hampering the high profile Cai Mep-Thi Vai port projects touted as a gateway to the south. The Vietnam Seaport Association said that delays in building roads and bridges as well as channel access to the Cai Mep-Thi Vai port complex could delay the project. The Cai Mep-Thi Vai port complex, located in the southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, will become the main commercial hub that will boost economic development in the southern region. Kyoei Steel holds a 52% stake in Thi Vai International Port Company. Currently, several licences for joint venture investment in ports at Cai Mep-Thi Vai have been issued : -
The investors said that the unclear schedule for road construction to the new ports, as well as dredging access channels, was causing huge difficulties. Investors are mainly concerned about the proposed Ho Chi Minh City Long Thanh highway and new Bien Hoa-Vung Tau highway. The Phu My bridge completion and the plan for dredging the entire access channel to the terminals to a uniform minimum depth of 14 metres is also behind schedule. Some investors had expressed interest in building landslide infrastructure projects but they could not because the government had signed an agreement with the Japanese Government for using ODA which was falling behind schedule. Adequate landsite infrastructure as well as channel access are fundamentally important to these port projects. Kyoei Steel holds a 52% stake in Thi Vai International Port Company.
Ben Dinh-Sao Mai Port - In 2006 Vinalines inked a cooperation agreement with PetroVietnam for developing a complex of port, oil and gas services in Ben Dinh-Sao Mai area in the southern coast province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau. According to the plan, Ben Dinh-Sao Mai port requires US$637 million and should have annual throughput of25-50 million tons.
In late 2007 the PM urged the People’s Committee of Ba Ria–Vung Tau to revoke the licenceds for the long delayed : -
Can Gio Port
In late 2007 the HCMC government decided to delay a plan for building a container terminal along the Soai Rap River in Can Gio District, denting hopes by many local and international developers who wanted to invest in the extensive complex comprising a port, a shipbuilding area and water-traffic services spanning 150 hectares on the left bank of the river in Can Gio. The city's decision took into consideration the possible impacts of the port project on Can Gio's environment and the ecological system before setting aside the plan. Furthermore, the port was not including in the central government approved seaport master plan on developing the so-called Port Group 5, comprising seaports in HCMC, Dong Nai and Ba Ria Vung Tau provinces. Several international port developers had expressed an interest in developing the container and multi purpose ports along the Soai Rap River in the outlying districts of Nha Be and Can Gio but will now have to invest in the Hiep Phuoc port-township in Nha Be District.
Hiep Phuoc
In mid 2005 the HCMC government announced a plan to dredge the access channel to 10 meters to scale up a project to build the future Hiep Phuoc Port Complex along the Soai Rap River in HCMC's Nha Be District to replace existing seaports in the inner city. The port complex was expanded to 3,600 hectares by enlarging the 2,000 hectare Hiep Phuoc Industrial Zone. The additional 1,600 hectare area is for building a port town. In the years to come, the port complex will house new facilities built to replace some existing ports in inner-city areas that would be shut down between now and 2010. The complex will include container ports and multi-purpose ports capable of receiving large ships of up to 50,000dwt. The city government has allowed P&O Ports to co-develop a USD$180 million (1st Phase) container port in the complex. The investor has already registered to lease a land plot of 20-30 hectares for 50 years to build the container terminal. Several projects have been committed to Hiep Phuoc Industrial Zone so far, most relating to port and shipping services.
Nhon Trach Shipyard & Lotus Port
In April 2005 the Lotus Joint Venture Company announced plans to build a second port in Nhon Trach on 30 hectares in Phu Huu Ward alongside the Dong Nai River. The joint venture intended to invest more than USD$54million in the new port which has been designed to accommodate vessels from 40,000 to 80,000 tons. Lotus’s other port can only handle ships upto 25,000DWT in District 7 some 4 kilometers away from where the new harbor. Lotus is a 63-37% JV between Vietnam Vietrans International Freight Forwarder and Ukraine's Black Sea Shipping Co or Blasco. The joint venture has invested more USD$19 million in the seaport industry in Vietnam.
Tan Tap
The Soai Rap waterway leading to Saigon Port is about 50 kilometres long. If this waterway is used it helps shorten the distance to Saigon Port by 20% in comparison with Long Tau waterway, which is currently used. If dredged deep enough, it can be navigable for 20,000dwt ships entering Saigon Port. In late 2005, Hutchison of Singapore announced plans to build a USD$150-200 million port in southern Long An Province for bulk cargo transport called Tan Tap on the Soai Rap River for vessels of 50,000 – 70,000 tons.
CENTRE
Van Phong Bay
Last year, central region ports handled only 3% of the country's total cargo volume so a government plan to invest USD$3.5 billion by 2020 to turn Van Phong Bay in Khanh Hoa into a transhipment hub might lead to inefficiency as Vietnam's central region will not be a major area for cargo movements.
Located in Van Phong Bay in the south central coastal province of Khanh Hoa, Vinalines is planning the $184 million Van Phong port project on 41.5 hectares of submerged land include 2 docks to accommodate container ships ranging from 6,000 to 9,000TEU. Port infrastructure, from loading facilities to management systems, will be built to meet international standards. Transport experts estimated more than US$200 million would be needed for building roads, wharves, bonded warehouses, and power and water supplies for the port in the first stage. Before 2010, the port should have a handling capacity of 1 million twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEU) per year. By 2020, the project should have required an estimated US$3.6 billion for a 746 hectare port with 37 large-scale piers and 6 small piers able to handle a total of 17 million TEUs per year.
So far 52 investment projects have been licenced in the Economic Zone of which 24 are foreign companies, with a combined total investment of US$13.4 billion. Major investors including Posco Group from South Korea ($4.5 billion steel project); Temasek Holdings from Singapore; Singapore based SP Chemicals is pondering a US$1.2 billion project; Sumitomo has plans to team up with other Japanese investors to investment some US$15 billion; and South Korea's STX Shipbuilding Co Ltd will develop a US$500-million shipyard covering 300 hectares.
Nhon Hoi
In late 2005 some 10 companies from the HCM City Industrial Parks Association (HIPA) announced that they would cooperate to establish the Saigon-Nhon Hoi Joint Stock Company to develop the USD$3.15 million infrastructure of the 600 hectare Nhon Hoi IP which will be part of the Nhon Hoi Economic Zone near Quy Nhon City. The company will invest about USD$64 million in Nhon Hoi and will also develop a 200 hectare residential area nearby. The 12,000 hectare Nhon Hoi Economic Zone, has attracted a lot of local and foreign investors, who are interest in IP infrastructure, port and urban development, auto production and shipbuilding.
The Nhon Hoi EZ is near the Quy Nhon Sea Port. In 2006, more than 3 million tonnes of goods was handled at the port. This number, however, was exceeded after the first 8 months of 2007 with an estimate that more than 4 million tonnes of goods would be transported. A new port with a capacity of 12 million tonnes a year is under construction to meet demand.
Dung Quat
Dung Quat Economic Zone is the only IZ in Vietnam directly funded by the government who hope its development will help spur the development of the whole central region. The economic zone now covers 10,300 hectares of Binh Son but in the future it will be expanded to 50,000 hectares of land and water space, including the island district of Ly Son. So far the zone has licenced 125 projects with a total registered investment capital of over USD$8.64 billion. Currently operational projects have account for more than USD$5 billion and the zone is expected to attract a total of USD$10 billion by 2010. In mid 2006 construction began on the Dung Quat deep water port which is only 90 kilometres from international sea routes and has easy access to Chu Lai airport which is just 15 kilometres away. Dung Quat Bay is well protected by breakwaters and up to 19 meters deep so can accommodate vessels of 70,000-80,000DWT.
The Gemadept Dung Quat International Port or General Wharf No1 of the larger Dung Quat Port is being developed by a Joint Stock company comprising the General Forwarding and Agencies Company (Gemadept), the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam and Quang Ngai's People's. Committee. The Gemadept Dung Quat International Port project has an important significance as it will help speed up the growth of the Dung Quat EZ the social and economic development of the impoverished Central Key Economic Region. The port, with a total investment of more than USD$36m will cover almost 11.6 hectares and its back-up area, another 20 hectares of land. It will be able to receive conventional and container vessels of up to 30,000 DWT. The cargo throughput capacity is planned at 1.5 million tonnes per annum.
Ke Gia
In mid 2007 the People's Committee of Binh Thuan Province ordered the provincial departments of Planning and Investment and transport to concentrate on building the Ke Ga Port on a site of 176 hectares in Tan Thanh commune, Ham Thuan Nam District at a total cost of US$240.6 million, able to receive 50,000DWT ships.
Bita’s
Authorities in the central province have also given approval to the HCM City based Bita's, a consumer goods company, to build a deep-water port costing US$93.7 million for the 1st Phase and USD$146.9 million for the 2nd Phase. The port will be able to handle ships of up to 50,000 dead weight tonnes.
Hoa Tam
The multi-billion Hoa Tam Petrochemical Industrial Park project with investment of Singapore's SP Chemicals is moving closer to reality as the company has signed a deal with Phu Yen Province. The IP can attract an estimated US$11 billion, with US$5 billion of it coming directly from SP Chemicals. Under the company's plan, some US$1.5 billion will be invested in the first phase, from 2009 to 2014, to develop Hoa Tam into a petrochemical industrial zone, including a port for ships of up to 250,000DWT. In this phase, SP will also develop a naphtha cracking petrochemical complex project, which uses the naphtha materials supplied locally or imported, with the capacity of 800,000 tons of ethylene a year. In the second stage through 2024, SP Chemicals will spend US$3.5 billion expanding production capacity while calling for its business partners to invest a further US$6 billion into other petrochemical projects in the IP. The petrochemical IP will be the largest such project in Vietnam. Once completed the IP will generate combined revenue of US$20 billion a year, contributing US$1 billion to the State budget, and create some 15,000 jobs.
Cua Viet
Vietnam's shipbuilding giant Vinashin Group will invest US$200 million to develop a complex comprising a shipyard and a resort in the central province of Quang Tri. Its subsidiary Dung Quat Shipbuilding Industry Corp has been named the owner of the project in Cua Viet Port area with 200 hectares of land in Trieu Phong District for developing Nam Cua Viet shipyard. The shipyard alone will require total investment capital of USD$99.5 million and be able to build huge vessels with a holding capacity of up to 70,000D WT. Its annual capacity will be 10 ships. Dung Quat also plans to sink USD$37 million into the upgrade of the current Cua Vietport into a larger facility able to receive ships of 10,000DWT, instead of smaller ships of 1,000DWT as at present.
Ba Ngoi port
In late 2007 the State owned Viet Nam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) announced that it would invest USD$300 million into construction of Ba Ngoi port in Khanh Hoa. Vinalines plans to build 2 container ports and 1 multi-purpose port to better serve the needs of larger vessels.
NORTH
Hon Mieu Island port
A deepwater port and accompanying industry, urban and service zone has been proposed in north-eastern Quang Ninh province, in an effort to create incentives for the development of an open economic area. The US$15 billion project, will play a crucial role in fostering trade between Vietnam and China as well as ASEAN countries. It will have a deepwater port, shipyard, steel mill, thermal power plant, oil refinery, tourist park and urban towns. Five major industrial conglomerates are behind the project : Vietnam Coal and Mineral Industries, PetroVietnam, Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam, Halong Investment and Development, Vietnam Post and Telecom, Song Da Corporation and Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry. Hon Mieu Island, in Hai Ha district, 50km from Mong Cai is a good location for the development because of its proximity to transport routes and water depth of 20 meters, suitable for a deep seaport. The port is designed to receive large ships of up to 120,000 DWT. It will lay the foundation for developing petrochemical, shipbuilding, power and hospitality industries. The investment capital for the first phase is estimated at US$1.2 billion. Quang Ninh, which is part of the Northern Focal Economic Zone, is located in the heart of two planned economic corridors connecting China's Kunming and Guangxi provinces with the northern provinces. The need for building a new deepwater port in the province is urgent, as the northern port system should be able to handle 100 million tons of cargo per year in 2020.
Cai Lan Port
The ministries of transport and planning and investment have approved a budget of US$6.25 million to dredge the bed of the passage to and from Cai Lan Port in the northern coast province of Quang Ninh. Cai Lan Port is operated by Vinalines and the dredging plan will make it possible for the port to accommodate cargo ships of up to 40,000 DWT.
In 2006 Vinalines signed an agreement with the US based SSA Marine Group to form a US$100 million joint venture to upgrade a container terminal in Quang Ninh Province. The project also aims to expand Cai Lan Port by constructing 2 more piers able to accommodate cargo ships of up to 50,000 DWT.
Pha Rung port complex
Situated in Haiphong, the seaport and shipbuilding complex, covering 260 hectares in the Dinh Vu Economic Zone. The seaport will include 4 wharves with total length of 630 meters while the shipbuilding industrial zone will include a bonded warehouse, a 21 storey office building, industrial plants and other auxiliary facilities. The port has a designed throughput of 7 million tons of goods per year while its 4 wharves should be capable of handling vessels of 20,000DWT and container ships of 1,300-1,500TEUs.
Hai Phong – Dinh Vu
The Lach Huyen Hai Phong waterway passage has been open to traffic since the 2nd Phase of the Hai Phong port upgrade project in early 2007 but the access channel needs to be dredged every year due to the constant buildup of sand, mud and alluvium. According to a plan prepared by Vinamarine, it needs to dredge around 3.8 million cubic-meters of alluvium per year at a cost of USD$4.3 to USD$5 million. After completing the 2nd Phase of the Hai Phong port upgrade project, which was financed by Japanese loans, the main terminal and Dinh Vu terminal are now able to receive ships up to 30,000dwt. However, the continued build-up of sand, mud and alluvium in the Lach Huyen Passage blocks ships of more than 10,000dwt from entering the terminals, so cargoes can only be shipped in small ships to and from the port. Haiphong port set a target of handling 12 million tons of cargo in 2007.
Lach Huyen
Covering 1,200 hectares the port will need some US$1.6 billion for infrastructure development and berth construction. The first phase of the project, which is scheduled for 2008-2015, calls for USD$420 million for port facilities and inland infrastructure components. The Lach Huyen port is 23.5 km north east of Haiphong and will be able to receive ships of up to 80,000 DWT. The port is expected to reduce shipments via Haiphong and Cai Lan ports. The Government has allowed the Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) to mobilize funds for the first phase of the project. Construction of the first two berths is expected to start soon. Goods from the western areas of China to other places will take an itinerary which is 800 km shorter if they are transited at the Lach Huyen port rather than at the nearest Chinese port. The annual handling capacity of the port will be 4 million tons of cargo in the period of 2010-2015 and the figure increase to 29-40 million tons by 2020. In early 2007 Belgium's Zeebrugge Port also expressed interest in investing in the port via a joint venture with Dinh Vu Development Joint Venture Company.
Vung Ang & Son Duong Ports
Vung Ang and Son Duong deepwater ports can accommodate vessels of up to 150,000 dead weight tonnes. Ha Tinh province plans to make Vung Ang Economic Zone an industrial, trading and service city during next 20 years. The project will further develop the current Vung Ang Son Duong port complex into a crucial gateway to the East (South China) Sea, offering access to countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region, especially the north-eastern provinces of Thailand and Laos. The ports are 400km south of Hanoi. The region also boasts mineral resources with large titanium deposits accounting for one-third of the country's titanium reserves and manganese mines. The Thach Khe iron mine has more than 554 million tonnes in reserves, with a 62 per cent iron content, while an open cast mine in Vu Quang district possesses more than 10 million tonnes. The two mines represent more than a half of the nation's total iron reserves.
In early 2008 Taiwan's Formosa Heavy Industries announced plans to build the deep-water port and a steel complex at a total cost of USD$1.2 billion. Son Duong port will be able to receive vessels of up to 200,000 dwt. The steel complex will be designed with a production capacity of 15 million tons per year. Both projects will be located in the Vung Ang Economic Zone.
Van Don & Hai Ha
A consortium comprises Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group, PetroVietnam, the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV), Lilama, Halong Investment and Development Corporation and Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vanashin Group) have announced plans to develop the Van Don and Hai Ha port complex in Quang Ninh province, 100km from Cai Lan seaport and 200km from Haiphong seaport. The two zones are expected to help boost the socio-economic development of the whole northern region. The projects will also help lay the foundation for developing the petrochemical, shipbuilding, power, transportation, and property sectors as well as for tourism. The Hai Ha Economic Zone project, which will require a staggering US$15 billion. The Prime Minister wants the project be a complex comprising of economic zones, a large deepwater port, a shipbuilding zone, a steel mill, a thermo-power plant, an oil refinery, a tourism site and new urban towns. Under the plan, the Hai Ha economic zone will cover 15,000 hectares with a special seaport being 23 meters deep. The port will be able to handle vessels of 200-300,000 DWT while the existing main ports in the north such as Cai Lan and Hai Phong can accommodate ships of 40,000DWT maximum.
Nam Trieu
In late 2007 the Nam Trieu Shipbuilding Industry Corporation with the Ben Kien Shipbuilding Industry Company (two subsidiaries of the giant Vinashin Group), from the city port of Haiphong, agreed to develop a numbers of large projects to expand business. Nam Trieu plans to start developing a slipway for building vessels of between 70,000-100,000dwt and a dry dock for repairing vessels of 100,000dwt covering 62 hectares that will be able to load ships of at least 100,000dwt. There are also plans to expand production to the fabrication and repair of large ships up to 300,000dwt.
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