Currently, key transportation projects in the Southern region, especially Ho Chi Minh City, are consuming a large amount of stone, while the procedures for extending and granting mining licenses take a long time. This causes contractors to rush to buy and collect, and prices continue to increase.
Do not dare to bid because of high price
Around mid-November, a series of quarries in Binh Duong and Dong Nai announced price adjustments.
Mr. Hoang, a supplier of sand and stone for many traffic contracts in Thu Duc City, said: "The price of stone has increased continuously throughout the past year. Some units have adjusted the price up 4 times in a year. Although each price increase is only from 2,000 - 4,000 VND/ton, when converted to cubic meters and multiplied by the total volume, the estimate is pushed up to hundreds of millions of VND."
Limited capacity of quarries while many traffic projects are under construction at the same time causes stone prices to continuously increase, leading to local scarcity.
According to Mr. Hoang, with the conversion rate of one cubic meter of stone equivalent to 1.6 tons, each ton increases in price by 4,000 VND, corresponding to each block increasing in price by 6,400 VND. For every 100,000m3 used, the supplier faces a situation of losing nearly 650 million VND.
The representative of the contractor constructing Ring Road 3 in Thu Duc City shared that the above situation only reflects a part of the supplier. From the perspective of the contractor directly constructing the project, the price of stone really puts a lot of pressure.
The above calculation is only the input price of stone each time the mine adjusts the price up, not including transportation and assembly costs. When included in the selling price delivered to the construction site, the contractor must bear an additional 100,000 VND/m3 of stone due to the cost of transportation by water and road.
"Just last week, my company decided not to participate in a large-value bid in Ho Chi Minh City because we determined that we could not offer a bid price lower than the bid price of the investor," said the representative.
Many mines are temporarily out of stock.
Recorded on the Dong Nai River section bordering the Thuong Tan quarry area (Bac Tan Uyen district, Binh Duong province), hundreds of large barges are anchored waiting to pick up goods for delivery to Ho Chi Minh City and the Western provinces.
The contractor must purchase stones from riverside construction material wharves.
Mr. De (52 years old), a captain who specializes in the Thuong Tan - Long An route, said that the number of barges coming here has increased sharply since the middle of this year, so the waiting time for cargo is very long, sometimes even blocking the entire river.
"Because of the long anchoring time, the shipping fee has recently increased from 40,000 VND/m3 to 50,000 VND/m3 depending on the route. There are many people looking to buy but the goods are stuck so they have to wait a long time. Some barges have to stay until the next day to get goods," said Mr. De.
Explaining the situation of constantly increasing construction stone prices and scarcity, Mr. Nguyen Linh, Deputy Director of the Dong Nai Province Traffic Construction Investment Project Management Board, said that key traffic projects are consuming a very large output, with daily pressure.
Meanwhile, the procedures for extending and granting mining licenses are complicated and take a whole year for mine investors to complete and submit to competent authorities for approval.
For example, the Ho Chi Minh City Ring Road 3 project needs about 5,200,000m3, the Bien Hoa - Vung Tau expressway needs nearly 1,500,000m3, and Long Thanh airport is expected to use 2,000,000m3.
In Ho Chi Minh City, the demand for stone consumption also overwhelms the general market demand. Therefore, the supply of each type of stone is almost prioritized for the traffic market according to the specific characteristics of the period.
"1 x 1 stones used for fresh concrete for civil construction have been in short supply for a month now. Mines in Binh Duong and Dong Nai have reported that they are temporarily out of stock because old customers have ordered the entire volume according to the mining capacity," said Mr. N - director of a fresh concrete trading enterprise.
Improve supply soon
According to a survey of the construction stone materials market from Funan Securities, the total output of the top 5 enterprises investing in stone mining in Binh Duong and Dong Nai is currently hundreds of millions of cubic meters, but only about 16,000,000m3/year is exploited.
On the other hand, the annual output is distributed to the entire Southeast and Southwest markets, so the capacity is only at a sufficient level, and there are times when supply shortages are inevitable.
A representative of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Dong Nai province said that the province has planned more than 1,300 hectares of land for mineral exploitation purposes located in Vinh Cuu district, Bien Hoa city, Xuan Loc district, Thong Nhat district and scattered in some other localities.
The advantage of this resource helps the province to have more revenue for the budget, creating jobs for thousands of local workers. Most importantly, it solves the problem of building materials to meet the demand of the southern provinces and cities.
To ensure adequate stone supply and avoid price fluctuations, Dong Nai province has planned to exploit 40 mines with a total area of over 1,400 hectares to serve civil construction and key projects from now until 2030, with a vision to 2050.
A representative of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Binh Duong province said that they are urgently completing legal documents to auction 4 quarries in Phu Giao and Bac Tan Uyen districts. When these quarries complete the auction procedures, they will supply the market with 3,000,000m3 per year.
Along with the capacity of the existing mines, adding new mines will basically solve the demand for construction stone in the Southern region.
Talking about the fundamental solution to proactively source stone materials, a representative of a large traffic contractor in Ho Chi Minh City shared that depending on suppliers has many risks.
When the market fluctuates, prices increase or become scarce, it directly affects the progress of the project that the contractor is participating in.
This person believes that enterprises constructing traffic infrastructure should consider investing in directly exploiting stone mines.
Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/nha-thau-dau-dau-vi-da-khan-hiem-gia-tang-phi-ma-19224112521052581.htm
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