On the morning of April 29, at the Nha Rong Wharf campus (HCMC), the HCMC People's Committee held a ceremony to award the Investment Policy Approval Decision for the Can Gio International Transshipment Port project to the consortium of Saigon Port Joint Stock Company and Terminal Investment Limited Holding S.A (belonging to MSC shipping line - the world's largest container transport group).
The project is a special-class maritime project with an investment scale of up to 128,000 billion VND (nearly 5 billion USD). In phase 1, the project deploys a port about 7 km long on an area of 571 hectares.
From now to 2030, the investor will build 4 main wharves and 9 barge wharves, reaching a capacity of 4.8 million TEUs/year. When completed, this super port will be able to receive container ships with a tonnage of over 250,000 tons (capacity of over 24,000 TEUs) - the largest ship lines in the world today.
Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Le Chon Tam - General Director of Saigon Port Joint Stock Company, representative of the investor complex - affirmed that the project is located in a strategic geographical location on the international maritime route with a total designed capacity of up to 16.9 million TEUs. This is the "key" for Vietnam to participate more deeply in the logistics ecosystem and global supply chain.
State-owned enterprises must play a leading role in building national strategic infrastructure. Investing in Can Gio is to implement the'order of the country' - to bring Vietnam out to the big sea with its own internal strength and top international cooperation with leading partners in the world," Mr. Nguyen Le Chon Tam emphasized.
Vining the country as a ship reaching out to sea in the new era, Mr. Nguyen Le Chon Tam said that if Ho Chi Minh City is a dynamic economic "leader", then the Can Gio area will play the role of a pioneering "nose" to "stir the waves". The project aims to turn Can Gio into the most effective bridge for world goods to reach Vietnam and vice versa, thereby improving national competitiveness.
The event of awarding investment decisions for Can Gio super port is part of the overall picture of a series of key infrastructure projects implemented on the morning of April 29. If the projects in Thu Thiem and Metro Line No. 2 play a role in restructuring urban space and connecting within the region, then Can Gio International Transshipment Port opens up a development axis towards the sea.
In the long term, the project not only creates new growth momentum but also contributes to repositioning Ho Chi Minh City's role as a key marine economic and logistics center of Southeast Asia.
