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Ministry of Transport announces 2021-30 waterway plans

HÀ NỘI — The Ministry of Transport has released plans to overhaul waterway transport links across the country by  二0 三0, to attract business and investment into transport infrastructure.  

Speaking at the event in Hà Nội on Wednesday, Minister Nguyễn Văn Thể said: “The Ministry will develop an incentive mechanism for large enterprises operating in the waterway transport sector to effectively exploit the existing potentials,公众he said.

He added that the planning of waterway, road and railway has been approved by the Prime Minister. The plans are an important part of comprehensive transport development.

The process of developing the plan was an opportunity to evaluate and review the development potentials in these fields, especially inland waterways.

The minister directed the Việt Nam Inland Waterway Administration and associated units to learn from the experiences of waterway development in the southern provinces and apply these learnings to the northern region.

The plans aim to better connect waterway systems, roads and seaports, especially for the North-South coastal transport corridor and the four northern transport corridors, according to the minister.

“The North-South coastal transport corridor is an important cargo transport corridor of the country,” he said.

“In the near future, the ministry will submit a North-South high-speed railway investment project to transport passengers, while North-South cargo transportation will be based on the existing railway route and the North-South coastal transport route."

The minister asked the local authorities on the Quảng Ninh - Kiên Giang coastal shipping route to continue investing in this transport corridor, by creating favourable conditions for enterprises.

Bùi Thiên Thu, Director of the Việt Nam Inland Waterway Administration, said that the Prime Minister-approved master plan on inland waterway infrastructure for the period  二0 二 一- 二0 三0 with a vision to  二0 五0, targeting a cargo volume of  七 一 五 million tonnes and  三 九 七 million turns of visitors.

According to the master plan, there are  五 五 main waterway transport routes along  一 四0 rivers and canals, with a total length of about  七, 三00 km.

Of this, the north has  一 八 main routes on  四 九 rivers and canals (about  三,0 二 八 km), the central region has  一 一 main routes on  二 八 rivers and canals ( 一, 二 二 九 km) and the south has  二 六 main routes on  六 三 rivers and canals ( 三,0 四 三 km).

The master plan also maps out the development of  五 四 complexes of cargo ports and  三 九 complexes of passenger ports across the country, with a total capacity of  三 六 一 million tonnes and  五 三. 四 million passengers. VNS