Vung Tau: Seaport welcomes opportunities to increase capacity
OPPORTUNITY TO GET THE BIG SHIPS
According to a calculation published by the World Bank for the case of CPTPP, by 2030, Vietnam's export volume will increase by 13.1 billion USD. Increased export volume means the ability of direct shipping routes to export markets will increase. Currently CMA-CGM shipping company is planning to implement a service line consisting of 5 ships with sea routes from Ho Chi Minh City port through ports in Southeast Asia such as Klang, Singapore and Jakarta, then will visit three ports large in Australia: Brisbane, Sydney and Townsville and returned to Ho Chi Minh City with ships of 8,000 TEUs to 18,000 TEUs. However, with the size of large vessels, ports in Ho Chi Minh City are not capable of receiving, so it is certain that this shipping company will look to CM-TV. Once CMA-CGM is the first deployment company and if successful,
Currently CM-TV has 23 mother train routes to European, US, African and intra-Asian markets.
DN PORT READY?Meanwhile, information from consulting firm Alphaliner (the world's leading maritime research organization), today, the size of ships is 10,000-21,000 TEUs (the length of ships from 350m to over 400m) accounts for 34% of the total number of ships. Container loads are in operation and account for 77% of the number of newly built vessels (especially Korean shipping companies like Hyundai Merchant Marine has built 12 units with a capacity of up to 23,000 TEUs (equivalent to 250,000 DWT). shows that in Vietnam, only CM-TV port and Lach Huyen port (Hai Phong) are eligible to receive, this is a good opportunity for CM-TV to welcome more mother trains to Europe and Europe. The US in the near future, shipping lines such as Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai, ZIM, Yang Ming ... all have brought services connecting Vietnam - India to deep-water ports in Vietnam. Or some strong firms in the African market like Maersk, ZIM, MOL used to ship ships directly from African countries to TCIT port and TCTT at CM-TV to unload raw cashew nuts to Vietnam. According to the representative of SSIT International Port (located in CM-TV port group), recently, MSC shipping company is planning to end the year 2019 and will bring more vessels running SSIT domestic service.
In order to receive opportunities from FTAs, seaport enterprises also have many positive moves. According to Mr. Nguyen Xuan Ky, Deputy General Director of CMIT Port, at present, there are 2 mother ships in CM-TV every day going straight to the banks of the United States, 1 big train goes straight to Asian countries, there is an average of 3 flights a day. Direct ship to Europe. With this frequency, CM-TV is one of the most competitive ports in ASEAN, after Malaysia and Singapore and meets the demand of travel and cargo handling of major shipping lines upon arrival. In order to receive opportunities, besides the capacity to receive and make goods for far-away mother ships with a tonnage of up to 194,000 DWT, CMIT continues to maintain good service quality and high safety in port operation. , high and stable handling capacity, as well as implementing technology solutions to support port operation business.
Meanwhile, according to Mr. Tran Khanh Hoang, Chairman of the Board of Members of Tan Cang - Cai Mep International Port Co., Ltd. (TCIT), TCIT has invested more modern equipment, increasing the total number of cranes. shore up 11 units, including 1 shore crane with 24 rows newly put into operation; 22 crane; 10 tractors and 2 forklifts, and many other equipment.
However, seaport enterprises believe that, with the current trend of the maritime industry, CM-TV counterparts have been increasing in size quickly, the ships going to the US have increased to 14,000 TEUs, ships to Europe size up to 18,000 TEUs. This is a very good signal but also a big challenge for CM-TV.
| According to the report of the Department of Transportation and Transportation, from the beginning of the year until now, the volume of goods through CM-TV port group reached nearly 1.7 million TEUs, growing by 26% compared to the same period last year, with 23 mother train routes. go to European markets, two US, African and intra-Asian markets. It is expected that CM-TV will continue to keep double-digit growth in the coming time. |
In fact, CM-TV regional international container ports are designed with a wharf about 600m long, serving 2 vessels of 280m in size at the same time. With large sizes like today, only 1 ship can be accommodated. In addition, adjacent ports are delimited by a barrier. The fact that each port company manages a small port not only makes it difficult for the same time to receive many large vessels, but also causes waste in the capacity of jetty, idle equipment of each other, goods circulated. between ports next to each other, they still have to travel through different ports, increasing time and cost ... Talking about this issue, Mr. Trinh Tuan Dung, in charge of exploiting CMA shipping company in Vietnam, said that since the year 2018, many shipping lines continue to plan to increase large vessels (from 10,000 TEUs or more) to CM-TV but due to "jamming" the port serving the ship, so some shipping lines are forced to abandon their plans for vessels to call CM-TV. Therefore, it is time for CM-TV area to create a "harbor alliance" to maximize the advantage of receiving large container ships.
In addition, the status of vessels going in and out of CM-TV still depends on the tide as the last time will be a disadvantage to "keep" the shipping lines. Mr. Boris Cohen, General Director of MSC, said that: With large vessels of 18,000 TEUs, shipping lines have very high requirements for operational efficiency and ensure tight sailing. Therefore, one of the important criteria for shipping lines to make a decision on CM-TV is that the deep draft should ensure 24/7 navigation on the channel without depending on the tide. Therefore, the Ministry of Transport and Communications and the agencies and agencies need to implement dredging the maritime channel into CM-TV port group to a depth of -15.5m.
According to Mr. Luong Anh Tuan, Deputy Director of Department of GT-VT, current fees and maritime charges for vessels entering and leaving CM-TV port area are being applied Circular 261/2016 / TT-BTC of the Ministry of Finance. Accordingly, the weighted mother ships with capacity of over 50,000 GT are reduced by 40% of the tonnage and maritime assurance fees until the end of 2020. This policy has brought positive effects to attracting firms. The ship is the number of mother train routes increased from 8 routes in 2013 to 23 routes in 2019. Therefore, the Department of Transportation is proposing that ministries and sectors will continue to apply this incentive in the coming years. At the same time, petitioning the Ministry of GT-VT to work with the Ministry of Finance to study preferential policies on maritime fees for ships with a tonnage of under 50,000 DWT to encourage intra-Asia vessels to call CM-TV.
