Promoting the leading role in the logistics sector

Lesson 1: Da Nang Port is associated with the brand of a livable city!

Lesson 2: Da Nang Port towards a green port: Roadmap and solutions Lesson 3: Correct strategic development orientation As the largest and most modern seaport complex in the Central region, an important gateway to the ocean, the starting point and also the end point of the East-West economic corridor, Da Nang Port plays a special role, a locomotive in the logistics sector, making an important contribution to the socio-economic development of the livable city - Da Nang City. Proactive adaptation First of all, in terms of economy, Da Nang Port Complex plays an important role in becoming a central port, serving the strategy of developing the marine economy, with a specialized nature, for large-sized ships carrying containers, general cargo and international passengers to enter and exit the country. The Da Nang port system also contributes to the transit and transshipment of goods for Laos, Thailand and Myanmar. With the advantage of being able to receive large-capacity ships at 7 wharves in Tien Sa port area at the same time and operating year-round, Da Nang port is operating with an average capacity of over 10 million tons of cargo passing through each year, with annual revenue of thousands of billions of VND, creating jobs for more than 1,100 workers at Da Nang port; in addition, the revenue and tax contributions from transport, logistics units, and import-export companies with goods passing through Da Nang port are very large and have created jobs for thousands of workers of these units.

Tien Sa Port.

After the project to upgrade and expand Tien Sa port phase 2 came into operation at the end of 2018, the total length of the wharf of Tien Sa port area increased to 1,700m, along with the high efficiency of the extremely strong digital transformation process combined with synchronous investment in infrastructure and equipment, statistics for the period 2019 - 2023 showed that the volume of goods passing through the port increased by 41%, of which container volume increased by 83%. The proportion of goods always accounted for 95% of the wharf exploitation output of Tien Sa port. 15 years ago, Da Nang port was not the "big brother" in terms of cargo volume passing through ports in the Central region and the volume of goods was somewhat inclined towards imports. But after establishing a crowded, vibrant, competitive and strongly developing container transport market, in the past 10 years, Da Nang port has always been the leader in terms of output and import and export goods through Da Nang port have almost reached a "balanced" position. This shows that: First, the production, circulation and consumption capacity of the rear area of ​​Da Nang port is developing strongly. Second, the cost of sea transport at Da Nang port is highly competitive when there are many shipping lines calling at the port and the volume of goods is large enough. Third, Da Nang port has performed very well its mission of ensuring the safe and fast flow of goods as well as demonstrating its leading role in the seaport block in the Central region. The new vision of Lien Chieu port area put into operation will certainly raise the level of Da Nang city in terms of providing seaport services. As the "child" of the city for over 123 years and with its current "stature", Da Nang port needs to be facilitated by the competent authorities to "join" the "playground" of Lien Chieu port. This helps to solve the problem of preserving the brand of Da Nang port as well as being a premise to handle the problem of converting the function of Tien Sa port into a tourist port. Therefore, first of all, for Da Nang port to "join" the "playground" of Lien Chieu port, the functional departments and branches from local to central levels need to have mechanisms and planning policies for Da Nang port to be a part of the overall Lien Chieu port with synchronous infrastructure (breakwater, channel, turning basin, road traffic connection) so that Da Nang port can invest in building a new port before 2030 to serve the relocation of cargo exploitation function for Tien Sa port, as well as so that Da Nang port can soon have the conditions to develop a plan to convert the function of Tien Sa port into a tourist port; Gradually transfer the labor force and invested equipment to the new port, take advantage of resources and experience in port exploitation activities, stabilize production and business and workers' lives, avoid wasting a lot of enterprise resources and not losing State capital in a State-owned enterprise. Timely investment in ports in Lien Chieu port area, synchronous with the progress of shared infrastructure being invested in construction, also avoids wasting a lot of State capital invested in component A of Lien Chieu port.

Perspective of Lien Chieu port

Because according to Decision No. 1579/QD-TTg dated September 22, 2021 of the Prime Minister, when Lien Chieu port is put into operation and after 2030, Tien Sa port will gradually convert its function into a tourist port and Lien Chieu port area will be the last area planned to develop the remaining seaport of Da Nang city. Recently, on October 8, 2024, Da Nang port sent Official Dispatch No. 1323/CDN-KTCT on the relocation of cargo exploitation function from Tien Sa port to Lien Chieu port to the Prime Minister requesting consideration and comments to the competent authorities with the following content: Firstly, regarding the relocation of cargo exploitation function of Tien Sa port: Decision on investment policy for the project of 2 starting wharves according to the investment call of Da Nang City People's Committee proposed in the dossier that Da Nang port has submitted validly and is being consulted by the Ministry of Planning and Investment with relevant Ministries for appraisal. Assign Da Nang port as the investor of 2 starting wharves. Plan a part of Lien Chieu port to assign Da Nang port to invest in building a new port before 2030 to relocate cargo exploitation function to Tien Sa port, in order to ensure the maintenance of current cargo exploitation capacity with at least 1,700m of wharf. Or plan a part of Lien Chieu port to hand over to Da Nang port to invest in building a new port before 2030 to relocate the cargo exploitation function to Tien Sa port, to ensure the maintenance of the current cargo exploitation capacity with at least 1,700m of wharf. Second, regarding the conversion of Tien Sa port function, Da Nang port will coordinate with management agencies to implement the conversion into a tourism exploitation port, contributing to the development of tourism and in accordance with the general planning of Da Nang city. Highly aware of its historical role and mission, Da Nang port always innovates itself, adapting to the period of accelerating industrialization and modernization of the country. The leaders of Da Nang port always want to "settle down and make a living", so they have been building a new strategy, reorganizing the production and business apparatus to be ready to "join the playground" of Lien Chieu port - a green, smart port on par with the world's leading seaports. The seaport in the Da Nang area has an extremely important geostrategic position, Da Nang port, a state-owned enterprise, has contributed greatly to ensuring the consolidation and maintenance of national security and defense in recent times. Whether the 123-year-old brand of Da Nang port will continue to accompany and develop with Da Nang city at Lien Chieu seaport or not will be carefully considered and decided by the competent authorities.

People's Representative Newspaper

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