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Hanoi (VNA) –Deputy Director General of the Vietnam Maritime Administration Hoang Hong Gianghas said the total volume of cargo handled at Vietnamese seaports surpassed 397.5million tonnes in the first seven months of this year, up 6 percent year on year.
Of which, the volumeof container goods handled at seaports reached over 11.8 million TEUs, marking ayear-on-year rise of 8 percent.
In July alone, thefigure was nearly 57.8 million tonnes, up 1 percent, including 1.68 millionTEUs of container goods, up 2 percent from the same period last year.
Despite the impacts of the COVID-19pandemic, several seaports still posted two-digit growth in the first half ofthis year, such as Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Nam Dinh, Can Tho, Thanh Hoa, ThaiBinh, ranging from 20 – 72 percent.
Others saw asignificant growth in container goods such as My Tho up 354 percent; Thanh Hoa115 percent; An Giang 85 percent and Da Nang, 11 percent./.
