Phu Yen celebrates 60 years since Vung Ro wharf received the first shipment of Ship No Number at the wharf

NDO - On November 28, the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee, and Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Phu Yen province solemnly held a ceremony to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Vung Ro wharf receiving the first shipment of Ship No Number (November 28, 1964 - November 28, 2024). Comrade Nguyen Trong Nghia, Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Department attended and delivered a speech.

At the ceremony, Hero of the People's Armed Forces, Lieutenant Colonel Ho Dac Thanh, former captain of Ship 41 with 12 times commanding the Ship Without Number transporting weapons to the South and Major Ngo Van Dinh, former soldier of the Vung Ro Wharf protection unit - K60, Head of the Vung Ro Ship Without Number wharf liaison committee, reviewed the heroic feats of the officers and soldiers of the Ship Without Number; the army and people of Phu Yen in fighting to protect the ship and the wharf, and safely unloading goods...

Vung Ro Wharf is associated with the strategic transport route - "Ho Chi Minh Trail at sea", together with "Truong Son Road - Ho Chi Minh Trail" has become a symbol of glory of the whole nation, the embodiment of the will and aspiration to fight against foreign invaders to unify the country.

Member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Department Nguyen Trong Nghia spoke at the ceremony.

From November 1964 to February 1965, Vung Ro wharf received 4 unnumbered ships, providing nearly 200 tons of weapons to the provinces of Phu Yen, Khanh Hoa, and Dak Lak. Thanks to that, the fighting strength of our army and people was raised, achieving many resounding victories, contributing to the liberation of the South and the unification of the country.

In his speech at the ceremony, Party Central Committee member, Provincial Party Secretary, Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Phu Yen Province Pham Dai Duong stated: "60 years have passed since Vung Ro Wharf received the first shipment of Ship No Number into the Wharf, nearly 40 years since our Party led the renovation process, our country has achieved many great achievements of historical significance in the cause of building and defending the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland. The 13th National Party Congress stated: "The scale and level of the economy have been raised. The people's lives, both materially and spiritually, have improved significantly. Our country has never had such a foundation, potential, position and international prestige as today."

Phu Yen province, in the historical flow of the country, has continued and promoted the glorious revolutionary struggle tradition of the homeland, united in one heart, strived to compete to build the homeland and achieved many important achievements in the fields of socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security.

After 35 years of re-establishment, from a province with many difficulties, low economic growth after re-establishment... up to now, the economic growth rate of the province through each period has always been maintained at a fairly good level and the economic structure has shifted in the right direction. Phu Yen has gathered many factors to be ready to break through, realizing the aspiration of rapid and sustainable development of the province, as the Phu Yen Provincial Planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050, has determined: by 2030, Phu Yen will become a province developing in a modern and sustainable direction. And by 2050, Phu Yen will become a province with a diverse and prosperous economy. As a center of the maritime economy of the Central Coast region; with a smart, green, sustainable urban system with a unique identity.

The 60th anniversary of Vung Ro Wharf receiving the first shipment of Ship No Number takes place at a time when our country is facing a historic opportunity to bring the country into a new era, an era of national growth, as stated by General Secretary To Lam.

Coming to Vung Ro today, we not only see the heroic image of Vung Ro wharf in battle, but also a destination for cultural and historical tourism. Vung Ro and the surrounding area are promoting investment to become a bustling seaport area, a gateway to the East Sea, promoting socio-economic development of Phu Yen province and the South Central region; creating a premise for Phu Yen and the whole country to continue to grow stronger in terms of the sea, get rich from the sea, contributing to constantly consolidating and strengthening the national defense posture associated with the people's security posture in the area increasingly solid.

Speaking on behalf of the Party and State leaders at the ceremony, Politburo member, Party Central Committee Secretary, Head of the Central Propaganda Department Nguyen Trong Nghia hoped that Phu Yen province would continue to promote its extraordinary will, determination, solidarity, and steadfast revolutionary tradition in the cause of national liberation and unification. Mobilize the combined strength of the entire political system, especially the strength of the people, make the most of opportunities and advantages, effectively and creatively exploit endogenous resources and existing potentials to build and develop Phu Yen faster and stronger.

Hero of the People's Armed Forces, Lieutenant Colonel Ho Dac Thanh spoke at the ceremony.

Along with that, Phu Yen needs to improve the effectiveness of propaganda work, educating revolutionary historical traditions for cadres, party members, and people, so that each person loves the country, the sea, and the islands more; promote the historical significance of the event, of the Ship Without Number, of the Ho Chi Minh Trail at sea to promote the historical and cultural image of the country to friends and tourists at home and abroad.

Head of the Central Propaganda Department Nguyen Trong Nghia believes that the Party Committee, government, army and people of Phu Yen will continue to be united, dynamic, creative, determined to make breakthroughs, and complete the goals set out in the Resolution of the Provincial Party Congress for the 2020-2025 term; prepare well the conditions to successfully organize the Party Congresses at all levels for the 2025-2030 term, towards the 14th National Congress of the Party; create a solid foundation for the whole country to enter a new era, an era of the Vietnamese people's rise, for the goal of "peace, unity, independence, rich people, strong country, democracy, fairness, civilization, happiness", and steadily advance towards Socialism.

At the ceremony, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced the Prime Minister's Decision and awarded the Certificate of Special National Monument of the Ho Chi Minh Sea Trail to Phu Yen province.

Delegates attend the incense offering ceremony at Vung Ro Wharf Historical Site.

During the period from November 1964 to February 1965, Vung Ro wharf received 4 unnumbered ships, providing nearly 200 tons of weapons to the provinces of Phu Yen, Khanh Hoa, and Dak Lak. From this support, Phu Yen province equipped nearly 3,000 new guns of various types for the guerrilla forces, while also ensuring explosives for the Phu Yen Ordnance Factory to manufacture mines, grenades, and hand grenades for combat, achieving many resounding feats; typically the Victory at Go Thi Thung tunnel in 1966; contributing to the victory of the General Offensive and Uprising in the Spring of Mau Than 1968; the historic victory of Route 5, together with the main force troops taking control of Phu Yen on April 1, 1975 and together with the army and people of the whole country completely liberated the South, reunifying the country.

In those glorious victories, there were the sacrifices of generations of cadres, soldiers, youth volunteers, laborers, along with the entire armed forces and people of the whole country in general, Phu Yen province in particular, of those who directly participated at Vung Ro wharf during the arduous and fierce years of resistance, especially the heroic fighting of the ship's sailors, soldiers, militia and guerrillas, creating the tragic Vung Ro battle in February 1965.

As Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet affirmed, “Times will pass, but the heroic feats and noble sacrifices of the forces that opened the strategic transport route named after beloved Uncle Ho on the East Sea, of the “numberless” ships, of the army and people at the ports whose mission was to support the southern revolution in the great resistance war against the US to save the country will forever go down in the history of our nation’s heroic struggle under the leadership of the glorious Communist Party of Vietnam. Our Fatherland and people will forever remember the contributions of those who created the miracle of the Ho Chi Minh Trail at sea.”

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Comrade Nguyen Trong Nghia, Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Department

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