New direction of Government leaders on Tran De port

New direction of Government leaders on Tran De port - Soc Trang

Tran De deep-water seaport is planned to become a special seaport, taking on the role of gateway port of the Mekong Delta region, in which the start-up phase requires capital of up to 50,000 billion VND.

Sketch of Tran De port - Soc Trang.

The Government Office has just issued Official Dispatch No. 2392/VPCP – CN to the Ministers of Transport; Finance; Natural Resources and Environment; and Chairman of the People's Committee of Soc Trang province, conveying the direction of Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha on approving the policy of establishing a master study project to build Tran De Port - Gateway Port of the Mekong Delta.

Accordingly, the Deputy Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Transport to preside over and coordinate with the Ministries of Planning and Investment, Finance, Natural Resources and Environment to study the proposal of the People's Committee of Soc Trang province on the establishment of a master plan for the construction of Tran De Port - Gateway Port of the Mekong Delta, including reviewing and clarifying the necessity of the project, the legal basis and output products of the project (plan, resolution and report to the Prime Minister in April 2024.

In March 2024, the People's Committee of Soc Trang province submitted a proposal to the Prime Minister for approval of the policy of establishing a master study project to build Tran De Port - Gateway Port of the Mekong Delta.

The local leader said that the Project will focus on researching and assessing the necessity, feasibility and effectiveness of port investment; investment capital needs and plans to combine public investment capital, non-state investment, and other capital sources for port investment; the ability of strategic investors to participate; necessary conditions, mechanisms and policies to implement port investment; expected goals, scale, location and form of construction investment; land and resource use needs; preliminary design plan for construction investment; explanation of conformity with planning, traffic connection, technical infrastructure around the project; expected project implementation time; ability to recover capital and repay loans (if any); preliminary determination of socio-economic efficiency and assessment of the project's impact...

The People's Committee of Soc Trang province proposed to assign the province to preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Transport and related ministries and branches to establish a "Overall research project to deploy a gateway port in the Mekong Delta region".

"If the Prime Minister approves the assignment of the project, the locality will coordinate with ministries and branches to build and complete it in 2024," the submission of the Soc Trang Provincial People's Committee stated.

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