Tien Sa Port in Da Nang city (Photo: baodanang.vn)Da Nang (VNA) - The central city of Da Nang plans to build aninternal water route and pier system to transport cargo between Tien Sa and LienChieu ports and ease congestion on National Highway 14B caused by commercialcargo.
According to General Director of the Da Nang Port Joint Stock Company Nguyen HuuSia, the project will be built with total investment of 300 billion VND (13.3million USD) and will be operational in the second quarter of 2020.
Sia said the internal water route will reduce the number of containers in TienSa Port that need to be transported on National Highway 14B by 20 percent.
He said the route will be open to ships and barges under 5,000 deadweighttonnage (DWT) from ports in Quang Ngai, Quang Binh and Quang Nam andnorth-south cargo shipment services.
“We plan to build a customs clearance and logistics service in Lien Chieu districtto receive and process cargo from neighbouring ports. It will be shipped byfreighter to Tien Sa Port to be loaded on cargo ships,” Sia said.
“This route will limit the amount of bulky cargo that is transported viaroadways and causes serious traffic accidents and congestion,” he said.“National Highway 14B, which connects Tien Sa Port, the Central Highlandsregion and National Highway No 1 and the Da Nang-Quang Ngai Expressway, is verybusy but measures like this one can help.”
Construction will start on the route in the second quarter of 2019.
Last year, the Tien Sa Port Company invested more than 44.2 million USD, 36 percentof which was sourced from its own capital, to add two piers to Tien Sa Port soit can handle 12 million tonnes of cargo per year.
The newly upgraded port can accommodate ships up to 70,000DWT or 4,000twenty-foot container units (TEU), and cruise ships up to 150 gross tonnage(GT).
The port hosted eight million tonnes of cargo in 2017.
Recently, Da Nang proposed the Ministry of Transport speed up construction onthe first stage of Lien Chieu Port so it can be ready to go into operation in2022.
TheLien Chieu port project is of importance for Da Nang in terms of infrastructure,socio-economic development and security-defence. After Prime Minister Nguyen XuanPhuc agreed in principle to the project in November 2016, the Da Nang People’sCommittee conducted a pre-feasibility study for the project and submitted it tothe Ministry of Transport, which later submitted its assessment of the study tothe Prime Minister in May this year.
Da Nang authorities have completeddossiers for the project’s pre-feasibility research report.
Statistics show with the annualgrowth of throughput at 16.2 percent, Da Nang’s ports will have to handlearound 10 million tonnes of cargo by 2020 and 30 million tonnes by 2030, whichwill surpass the capacity of Tien Sa port after 2020 and overwhelm thetransport infrastructure in the area, causing traffic jams and accidents aswell as environmental pollution, thus affecting the city’s tourism development.
Recently, the traffic flow of trucksand container trucks from Tien Sa port going through the Yet Kieu-Ngo Quyen-NguHanh Son has surged, causing several serious accidents, hence the urgent needfor the early construction of Lien Chieu port.
Under Da Nang’s project on developingsea-based economy by 2025 with vision to 2030, the city will focus resources ondeveloping maritime transport. Accordingly, Tien Sa port will be reserved toserve cruise ships and Lien Chieu is set to become the major cargo port in thecity.-VNA
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