A corner of the deep-water Nam Dinh Vu port (Photo: gemadept.com.vn)Hai Phong (VNA) – After three months in operation, the NamDinh Vu container terminal (the first stage) has received 35 ships and handled 25,000TEU in total, with an average crane productivity amounting to 50 moves per hour,a high productivity in the region.
Located in Nam Dinh Vu industrial park in the northern portcity of Hai Phong, it is the seventh among ports operated by GemadeptCorporation, a leading Vietnamese firm in port operation and logistics.
Costing a total of 6 trillion VND (257.95 million USD), the 65-haport will have 1,500m of wharf and will be capable of accommodating vessels of upto 40,000 DWT.
After the first stage, built with an investment of 1.7trillion VND (73.07 million USD), the facility now has a 450m-long wharf and canhandle 500,000 TEU per year.
The second stage of the project is expected to begin in thethird quarter this year. By 2020, it will become the largest deep-water port inDinh Vu, Hai Phong.
General Director of Gemadept Vietnam Do Van Minh said thevolume of containers handled via ports in Hai Phong has grown by 15 percentannually over the past five years. It is forecast to reach 100 million tonnesof cargo this year.
Therefore, the construction of Nam Dinh Vu port and LachHuyen international port in Hai Phong will ease pressure on inland ports andtraffic, and improve the capacity of cargo handling.
Nam Dinh Vu is the nearest to the sea compared to otherports in Hai Phong. It is easily accessible with linkage to the Hanoi – HaiPhong and Hai Phong – Ha Long highways, making it an ideal transit in theglobal logistics chain.-VNA
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