The Maritime Administration said that recently, the seaport infrastructure system has increasingly developed to a modern scale, contributing to improving service quality and competitiveness of Vietnam's seaports. Many investors and professional port operators and major shipping companies in the world participate in investing in building and operating seaports in Vietnam.

For example, PSA Group - Singapore (number 3 port operator in the world) invests and operates SP-PSA port in Ba Ria - Vung Tau province, APMT Group - Denmark (number 2 port operator in the world) world) investing in and exploiting CMIT Port in Ba Ria - Vung Tau province; Hutchison Port Holding Group - Hong Kong (No. 1 seaport operator in the world) invests in SITV port in Ba Ria - Vung Tau province...

Large shipping lines also participate in investing and operating many ports in Vietnam such as Mitsui O.S.K line (Japan), Wanhai Lines (Taiwan, China) investing and operating Tan Cang - Cai Mep international container port; Shipping lines MOL and NYK invest in Lach Huyen port (Hai Phong)…

The two largest seaport groups in the country today, seaport groups No. 1 and 4, both have development and investment. With seaport group No. 1, the capacity and organization of port operations have been significantly improved in new port areas. Container handling capacity increased impressively (from 500-800 Teus to 1,000-1,200 TEUs per meter long berth).

Seaport group No. 4 is the most developed seaport group in the country, concentrated in the seaport group in Ho Chi Minh City area and Cai Mep - Thi Vai area (Vung Tau) with more than 100 ports and 220 wharfs, nearly 40,000 meters long. m. Many ports are invested with synchronous scale, modern high-capacity loading and unloading equipment, loading and unloading productivity meets regional and international standards, and ship release time is fast.

Cat Lai Port (HCMC) is the port with the largest concentration of container throughput in the country, receiving ships from 20,000 to 30,000 tons or larger (reduced load), mainly transporting to Asian routes.

Cai Mep - Thi Vai port is the largest deep-water port in the country and is capable of receiving the world's largest tonnage ships (ships of 240,000 DWT). In 2022, Cai Mep port area has established 22 routes to the Americas, 2 routes to Europe and 10 routes to intra-Asia, an increase of about 3 times compared to 2013 (in 2018 there were 8 routes to the Americas and Europe).

Vietnam has more than 100 intra-Asia transport routes
Besides 25 transport routes to the Americas (concentrated in two deep-water port clusters Lach Huyen and Cai Mep - Thi Vai) and 3 routes to Europe (concentrated in two deep-water port clusters Lach Huyen and Cai Mep - Thi Vai) ), the Maritime Administration also said that currently, Vietnam has over 100 intra-Asia transport routes, focusing on port clusters No. 1 (Hai Phong, Quang Ninh), No. 3 (Da Nang, Quy Nhon, Quang Nam). and number 4 (HCMC, Vung Tau).

"Currently, Vietnam is one of three countries with the largest throughput of goods and transport routes in the region (along with Malaysia and Singapore)," the Maritime Administration informed.

In 2022, the output of goods through seaports will reach 733 million tons, an increase of 4% compared to 2021. In particular, the output of containerized goods through Vietnam's seaports is also on the rise, reaching over 25.1 million TEUs, an increase 5% over the same period.

According to the global container trading platform Container xChange, the global supply chain has recently been shifting to Southeast Asian countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and other countries due to China's Zero-Covid policy. Container xChange commented that global container shipping companies are looking to diversify commodity trade routes, from linear routes to diverse routes. Among them, countries such as Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore are emerging as serious competitors in the "war" of container trade routes.

It can be seen that the current capacity of Vietnam's seaports is a premise for shipping lines to use Vietnam's seaports as an important link in the global maritime chain.

Minh Toan