Why can't develop?
According to VAFI, despite many years, the Party and State have many policies and budgets for socio-economic development in the Central, Central Highlands and Mekong Delta provinces but the Central and Western provinces Nguyen, the Mekong Delta is still poorer than other provinces and cities near major seaports.
The reason is that the geographical position in these regions does not naturally create deep sea ports, while investors in the industrial sector, especially in the field of export production, always prioritize number one. selecting manufacturing plants near major seaports because of low logistics costs. If choosing Central and Mekong River Delta, the cost of logistics is very high, the time for transporting goods and materials will make the cost of inventories soar.
Therefore, according to VAFI to economic in the Central, Central Highlands and Mekong River Delta, the provinces and cities near big seaports such as Hai Phong, Saigon, Ba Ria-Vung Tau should be promptly approached. policies to prioritize the development of deep-water port systems in Central Vietnam and the Mekong River delta. When there is a modern port, investors will come to invest.
Further analysis of this proposal, a successful lesson from the construction of Lach Huyen deep sea port, according to VAFI, if there is no Lach Huyen deep-water port, now Hai Phong port is overloaded, loading charges High ranking and it is important that thousands of new investment projects deployed in the North in the past years will not appear. None of the investors foolishly invested in traffic congestion, transportation costs were high.
Lach Huyen deep-water port was established to open trans-ocean routes, attract ships of more than 100,000 DWT, help the Northern business community have lower logistics costs than before, faster time for goods transportation. , especially trans-Pacific boats. "It must be said that the policy of building Lach Huyen port of the Party and the State is very right, the state only spent 1 billion USD but gained immense benefits. The lesson of building Lach Huyen deep-water port needs to be replicated for the construction of the sea port system after the Central and Mekong Delta provinces ”, VAFI stressed.
Priority auction of state shares
In the past years, Quang Ngai has attracted a number of large investors such as oil and gas and iron and steel ... but still worried when Dung Quat deep-water port has not organized domestic and international container lines. Logistics costs are still high, shipping time is long. Businesses come to Quang Ngai and are still modest. Recently, Quang Ngai has attracted the Hoa Phat Group to invest billions of dollars, creating breakthroughs for the local economy to develop. When Hoa Phat Dung Quat Steel Complex comes into operation, there will be millions of tons of cargo transported by container ships, from this advantage that Hoa Phat Group easily attracts container shipping companies to exploit and Therefore, enterprises operating in Quang Ngai and neighboring provinces will be able to transport goods by container ships.
Currently, the Ministry of Transport is conducting research on Tran De deep-water port project. With the current large volume of import and export goods, when Tran De port is built, it will be easy to immediately establish international container lines and then make sure that investment capital will pour into the Delta region. Kowloon.
Notably, VAFI said that it is necessary to build a system of container ports in the Central region linked together, this system includes the ports: Quy Nhon, Dung Quat, Lien Chieu, Quang Tri and Nghi Son. Accordingly, for the port of Quy Nhon and Da Nang to truly innovate, the Government should auction 51% of state shares at Quy Nhon and Da Nang Port Joint Stock Company to experienced foreign shipping companies. in Vietnam provided that they have to regularly organize international container lines. The same, similar. With Lien Chieu port, it is also recommended to choose a public international tender on the condition that investors commit to open international container lines ....
When the above-mentioned central ports become a deep-water port and international container lines are put into operation regularly, VAFI believes that the Central region's economy will take off and the provincial economic structure will be fast. shift to become industrial provinces ...
According to Hai Quan Online Newspaper