Hai Lang district is a key industrial development area of Quang Tri province. To support industrial development, logistics plays the role of a “midwife”. Therefore, logistics is the direction to help Hai Lang develop sustainably, especially the locality has many factors to develop the logistics economy.
Construction of Quang Tri Industrial Park site begins - Photo: QUANG GIANG
Strengths to develop logistics
Logistics is considered the “back-office” for industry, including freight transport services, warehousing, packaging and preservation, and consumption of goods. Compared to other localities in the province and other provinces in the region, Hai Lang has many favorable factors for developing the logistics sector.
In terms of geographical location, Hai Lang is located at the southern gateway of Quang Tri province, with flat terrain, large land fund and is also a connection point with important foreign traffic routes such as National Highway 1, North-South railway, North-South expressway to connect with the East-West Economic Corridor (EWEC) in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). This is an ideal trans-Asian route connecting Myanmar - Thailand - Laos through Lao Bao International Border Gate to the central provinces of Vietnam very conveniently.
In particular, the Para - EWEC Corridor with a length of more than 420 km, the shortest connection from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, passing through Myanmar, Northeastern Thailand, Laos, Vietnam through La Lay International Border Gate and to My Thuy deep-water port via National Highway 15D, will be built in the future.
Regarding infrastructure, Hai Lang has My Thuy deep-water port under construction with a scale of 10 berths, ensuring the reception of ships with a tonnage of up to 100,000 tons; total investment capital of VND 15,000 billion; transport capacity of about 1,040 million tons to 1,160 million tons/year by 2030. Besides, Hai Lang has Quang Tri Industrial Park (VSIP 8), a project with a land use scale of 481.2 hectares, total project investment capital of VND 2,074 billion invested by a joint venture of 3 investors including Vietnam - Singapore Industrial Park Joint Stock Company (VSIP), Amata Bien Hoa Urban Joint Stock Company (belonging to Amata Group Thailand) and Sumitomo Corporation Japan.
On the other hand, Hai Lang is a key area of the Southeast Quang Tri Economic Zone, attracting many key projects such as the Quang Tri Thermal Power Plant project; the Hai Lang LNG project phase 1, and is also a favorable location to access gas from gas fields such as Ken Bau with reserves of nearly 230 billion m3 and 450 million barrels of condensate, Bao Vang and Bao Den fields with nearly 58 billion m3.
The Southeast Quang Tri Economic Zone has been approved by the Prime Minister in Decision No. 1936/QD-TTg dated October 11, 2016 with a total natural land area of 23,792 hectares and is being approved by competent authorities for a new planning in the direction of expanding the area, including planning for logistics centers. This is consistent with the conditions of import-export turnover as well as the volume of foreign trade goods that are increasing and expected to increase in the coming time.
Statistics show that in 2024, the import-export turnover through the two international border gates of Lao Bao and La Lay will reach nearly 1 billion USD, the total volume of goods will be 3.44 million tons, the total value of goods will be nearly 9 billion USD. In the coming time, if My Thuy port is put into use along with key projects in the province, especially the Quang Tri Industrial Park, the volume of goods is expected to increase significantly.
Logistics projects under implementation
To anticipate development, investors have promoted investment and implemented logistics projects. The Southeast Quang Tri Economic Zone Logistics and Service Center Project, invested by IDC Southeast Joint Stock Company, has been granted an investment license by the Provincial People's Committee in Hai Binh Commune, Hai Lang District with an adjusted land use area of 20.91 hectares and a total investment of more than 784 billion VND.
The project has fields of operation including logistics services such as agency, delivery, transportation services; warehousing and storage of goods including storage of goods in warehouses, container warehousing services under maritime transport support services, warehousing services under transport support services; loading and unloading of goods including loading and unloading of goods, loading and unloading of containers; direct support services for road transport.
The design scale includes the construction of warehouses, storage areas for goods and transportation equipment, internal traffic systems, management and operation areas and auxiliary works; the volume of goods passing through the center is about 4.5 - 5 million tons/year. Regarding the project progress, according to Decision No. 414/QD-UBND of the Provincial People's Committee dated March 22, 2024, the project will be implemented and put into operation in the near future.
Another larger-scale logistics project that is being promoted by investors is the project to build a logistics area behind My Thuy port. This is a project invested by the investor who is implementing the My Thuy Port Area project when the My Thuy Port Area project is under construction. The project proposes a land use area of 86 hectares, with a total investment of about 2,232 billion VND, invested by My Thuy International Port Joint Stock Company (MTIP). The Provincial People's Committee assesses that this is a very necessary project to support and increase the optimal efficiency of cargo transportation through My Thuy deep-water seaport after it comes into operation, in order to create a driving force to promote socio-economic development for Quang Tri, especially for Hai Lang area.
In addition, the adjustment and expansion of the Southeast Quang Tri Economic Zone is creating space, expanding planning, and allocating more land area for logistics projects such as Hai Binh commune, which has planned an area of 71 hectares for the logistics sector. The logistics projects that have been and are being implemented promise to support industrial development when projects such as My Thuy Port Area and Quang Tri Industrial Park are completed and put into operation.
New motivation to help Hai Lang develop sustainably
In order to promote the advantage of the starting point through Vietnam on the East-West Economic Corridor to build Quang Tri in general and Hai Lang in particular to become the logistics center of the region, connecting the trade of goods from the whole region to the region, the world and vice versa through National Highway 9 and National Highway 15D connecting My Thuy port to La Lay International Border Gate, Lao Bao International Border Gate, there need to be strong solutions to promote advantages, creating motivation for the development of logistics services.
In particular, it is necessary to expand economic cooperation, foreign economic relations, create development links with the Central provinces and countries on the East-West Economic Corridor. Promote investment in transport infrastructure such as upgrading National Highway 9, investing in National Highway 15D to exploit the advantages of the infrastructure corridor in the North-South direction, the East-West corridor and reasonably exploit the coastal space to develop logistics services, soon turning Hai Lang into a logistics center, transit of goods in Southeast Asia and transport corridors in the ASEAN region, the Mekong Sub-region (GMS).
At the same time, the province needs to promote the establishment of cooperative relations with the provinces of Central Laos and the Northeast of Thailand so that transport enterprises can exchange and cooperate in transport development, speed up the implementation of the Project on Cooperation to implement the economic corridor of Quang Tri (Vietnam) - Salavan (Laos) - Ubon Ratchathani (Thailand); develop the Project on developing the Lao Bao - Densavan cross-border economic and trade zone as well as build the La Lay - La Lay economic zone between the two provinces of Quang Tri and Salavan.
Speed up the progress and call for investment in key infrastructure projects such as logistics center and warehouse projects in Hai Lang area, especially in My Thuy area. At the same time, speed up the construction of My Thuy port, Quang Tri Industrial Park, gas and electricity projects, thermal power, oil and gas depots, etc.
Focus on supporting the development of logistics enterprises in terms of quantity, quality, scale, and capacity to serve the needs of the domestic and regional markets. Establish a number of professional logistics service enterprises and regional-scale transportation enterprises, and at the same time implement policies to support enterprises in developing logistics services to ensure competitiveness in the market, contribute to promoting trade facilitation, restructuring business production activities, and moving towards forming a regional logistics center.
Pay attention to training and fostering quality human resources to take the lead and participate in working and laboring in the logistics sector; develop policies to support localities in implementing a number of logistics service development activities.
Le Minh
Source: https://baoquangtri.vn/logistics-ho-tro-hai-lang-phat-trien-ben-vung-192391.htm
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