Ho Chi Minh City: Temporary import and re-export businesses are struggling with seaport and road fees
The Phu Huu BOT project in Thu Duc City is preparing to collect road use fees and the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport admits that businesses with temporarily imported and re-exported goods will be in trouble.
According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport , the BOT project to build a road connecting Nguyen Duy Trinh Street to Phu Huu Industrial Park (BOT Phu Huu - Thu Duc City) has been completed and is preparing to start collecting road use service fees.
This is the only road to two ports, Tan Cang - Phu Huu and SP-ITC International Container Port. Tan Cang - Phu Huu is part of Cat Lai Port, the largest container port in Vietnam. SP-ITC is the second largest import-export port in Ho Chi Minh City, the gateway to receive and transfer import-export goods to ports in Cai Mep - the largest deep-water port in Vietnam.
For temporarily imported and re-exported goods, transit goods, goods sent to bonded warehouses, transit goods, transshipment goods, import and export goods transported from the provinces in the East and West of Ho Chi Minh City to these two ports, vehicles will have to pay the service fee for using road services at the Hanoi Highway BOT station (155,000 VND/trip for trucks over 18 tons and 40- foot containers) and the Long Phuoc toll station on the Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay expressway (163,000 VND/trip/empty container, 342,000 VND/trip/filled container).
Goods transported from the southern provinces to Ho Chi Minh City will pay road service fees at the Phu My Bridge BOT station (80,000 VND/trip); Nguyen Van Linh Road BOT station (35,000 VND/trip for 18-ton trucks).
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| BOT Phu Huu. |
After that, when goods enter Tan Cang - Phu Huu port and SP-ITC port, it is expected that the means of transport will have to pay the road service fee of the Phu Huu BOT project of 133,000 VND/trip for trucks over 18 tons and 40 feet containers.
In addition to the fees at the above stations, businesses must also pay port infrastructure fees when bringing goods into and out of Tan Cang - Phu Huu and SP-ITC ports at a fee of VND250,000/20-foot container and VND500,000/40-foot container.
This will create a huge burden on costs, negatively impacting production and business activities for enterprises in particular and Ho Chi Minh City in general, especially in the recovery phase after the Covid-19 pandemic.
Therefore, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport believes that it is necessary to consider reducing the fee for using works, infrastructure, service works, and public utilities in the seaport gate area for goods entering and leaving Tan Cang - Phu Huu and SP-ITC International Container Port by road corresponding to the road service fee collection at Phu Huu BOT Station.
Previously, as Dau Tu Newspaper reported (article Southern import-export enterprises “cry out” about Phu Huu BOT station ), the project to build a road connecting Nguyen Duy Trinh Street to Phu Huu Industrial Park was implemented in the form of BOT, with Vicem Ha Tien Cement Joint Stock Company (Vicem Ha Tien) as the investor. The project has a total investment of 461 billion VND, of which equity is more than 69 billion VND (15%), and loan capital is 392 billion VND (85%).
The project has a scale of 30 m wide, 2.626 km long cement concrete road, started on June 6, 2012 and completed on June 14, 2014. The exploitation period according to the contract plan is 24 years.
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| BOT Phu Huu prepares to collect fees. |
By 2023, Vicem Ha Tien was assigned by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee to be the investor of the Project to install a non-stop electronic toll collection system for road use services (BOT Phu Huu). Accordingly, BOT Phu Huu will be installed with an ETC toll collection system for 6 lanes at the toll station, 3 lanes in each direction, including 1 mixed lane. The total implementation cost is about 15 billion VND from the contingency fund of the Project to build a connecting road from Nguyen Duy Trinh Street to Phu Huu Industrial Park .
On March 8, 2024, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee signed Decision No. 705/QD-UBND, promulgating the maximum price for road use services at the Phu Huu BOT Project. Accordingly, the maximum price is 133,000 VND/trip for trucks with a load capacity of 18 tons or more, and trucks carrying goods in 40-foot containers.
Many businesses have complained that even though the toll is only collected on a concrete road section of less than 3 km, the Phu Huu BOT station will have a comprehensive impact on the delivery and receipt of goods of import-export businesses in the South.
Even Mr. Le Quang Lam, Director of QTL Logistics Company (HCMC) sent a petition to the Secretary of the HCMC Party Committee and related agencies, stating: " It is unreasonable and creates unnecessary pressure on the operations of the majority of import-export enterprises. Phu Huu BOT will be "fee on fee". Difficulties make the profit of enterprises thinner, even at the level of revenue just enough to cover expenses. The increase in Phu Huu BOT fees will directly put our enterprise in a state of loss on each shipment ".
Source: https://baodautu.vn/tphcm-doanh-nghiep-tam-nhap-tai-xuat-oan-lung-voi-phi-cang-bien-duong-bo-d220157.html
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