Opportunity to bring Phu My to become the leading commercial port hub in Southeast Asia.
The fact that European investors want to pour nearly $ 1 billion into a logistics project in Phu My town, Ba Ria - Vung Tau province after the EVFTA Agreement and the event to welcome the largest container ship in the world opens the opportunity to bring this place. into the world's most famous commercial ports.
Belgium and the Netherlands consecutively sent many notes for projects in Phu My
This information is included in a report to the Government Office of the People's Committee of Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province at the end of 2020, related to the proposal of investors Besix - IPEI - Boskalis - Hateco at the Logistics Center project. Cai Mep Ha - Phu My.
According to the report, the Cai Mep Ha logistics center project in Phu My is of interest to the Dutch and Belgian governments and has many notes sent to the Prime Minister to be assigned to a consortium of EU-VN investors, including Besix Company - IPEI Company (Belgium) - Hateco Company (Vietnam) - Boskalis Company (The Netherlands) is the investor of the project.
Specifically, during his visit to and working in the Kingdom of Belgium on October 16, 2018, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel witnessed a memorandum of understanding between Hateco Logistics and IPEI NV on collaborative research on this project. Next, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands also has two notes on the proposed Vietnam - Belgium - Netherlands cooperation for the project.
By May 2019, the Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium had a note on the cooperation between Belgium and Vietnam in the development of the Cai Mep Ha - Phu My Logistics Center project. In September 2020, the Dutch Ambassador and the Belgian Ambassador continued to send a letter to the Prime Minister requesting to meet to report the proposal on the progress of implementing the Cai Mep Ha Logistics Center project and propose to consider the proposal. of an EU-VN investor selected as the project investor.
At the meeting with the Dutch Ambassador, the Belgian Ambassador and the investors of the European Union (EU) wish to invest in a port logistics project worth nearly 1 billion USD at the Cai Mep Ha Logistics Center, Phu. USA (Ba Ria - Vung Tau), on September 16, 2020, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc welcomed investors' determination in Cai Mep Ha, developing logistics to export Vietnamese goods to the EU and the world. .
At the same time, the Prime Minister assigned the People's Committee of Ba Ria - Vung Tau province to coordinate with the Ministry of Planning and Investment to consider the investor's proposal for the project in Cai Mep Ha - Phu My, report to the Prime Minister on the issue of involve. "Who is slow, I will criticize", the Prime Minister noted the work done.
This is a rare project that receives special attention from European countries after the Free Trade Agreement between Vietnam and the European Union (EVFTA Agreement) takes effect, from August 1 /. 2020. The EVFTA Agreement opens up great opportunities and prospects for a comprehensive Vietnam-EU cooperation partnership, after a decade of persistent negotiations.
The opportunity to put Phu My on the world-class commercial port map
Maritime Magazine (USA) recently quoted Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Nhat, said that by the beginning of 2020, Vietnam has increased the berth area more than 8 times in the past 20 years, with 34 ports. In which, Cai Mep port (Phu My, Ba Ria - Vung Tau) is capable of receiving container ships with the largest tonnage of up to 214,000 tons, followed by Hai Phong port capable of receiving 132,000 tons of container ships. The goal in the next stage of development is to increase Vietnam's annual cargo capacity to 1.14 - 1.42 billion tons, with the focus on developing Hai Phong and Cai Mep ports to reach international standards.
Previously, on October 26, 2020, Cai Mep port (CMIT) held a ceremony to welcome the Margrethe Maersk container ship - one of the largest container ships in the world today with a tonnage of more than 214,000 tons, carrying capacity of more than 18,300 containers, long nearly 400m, 59m wide.
With this event, CMIT has become one of about 20 major ports in the world capable of receiving ships of this size, contributing to affirm the position of the Cai Mep - Thi Vai port system in Phu My on the map. world maritime.
The fact that CMIT port is capable and licensed to receive ships with a tonnage of more than 214,000 tons is also of special significance in the context of the free trade agreements that Vietnam has signed such as the European Union Free Trade Agreement. Europe - Vietnam (EVFTA), Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) ...
Then, import and export goods of Vietnam will be loaded on large mother ships that go directly to major markets such as Europe and the US without transshipment through transit ports such as Singapore, Malaysia ... save logistics costs, increase competitiveness, reduce transit times; from then on, the goods could soon access the market.
This is also a great potential to attract the special attention of European investors with Phu My. At the Prime Minister's meeting in September 2020, investors also said that the project could welcome large container ships to bring Vietnamese goods to the world. In addition, investors also participate in promoting inland waterway transportation, transporting goods and agricultural products from the Mekong Delta to Cai Mep Ha and out to the world.
Therefore, investors want the project to be approved soon, and at the same time affirming their commitment, if they are selected, they will implement the project on schedule, with quality, applying "green transport" measures. for sustainable development. In the context that Vietnam and the EU are promoting trade, when EVFTA comes into effect, both sides need projects like this one.
The efforts of European investors to pursue the project, together with the determination of the head of the Government, are expected to make Phu My rise to become the leading commercial port in Southeast Asia, becoming the economic leverage. most in the South.
Source: According to Construction Newspaper
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