The Viet Nam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) plans to carry out several major projects on building seaports in 2008.
First, construction of the Van Phong international transit seaport in the central province of Khanh Hoa and the Lach Huyen deep water port in the northern city of Hai Phong will start in the first quarter of this year.
Van Phong port will be a large port in Asia with a capacity of handling 300 million tons of goods per year and receiving 400,000-tonne ships.
Also in the first quarter, Vinalines will break ground for the construction of wharfs 2, 3, 4 of Cai Lan port in northern Quang Ninh province to receive 40,000 DWT ships, and five new wharfs for 20,000 DWT ships at Dinh Vu port in Hai Phong city.
Vinalines also plans to cooperate with US and Danish firms to build two more container wharfs at Cai Mep-Thi Vai port and one more container port in Ben Dinh-Sao Mai, both in the southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.
In the 2008-11 period, the corporation will extend the Ba Ngoi port in the Cam Ranh Gulf , the central Khanh Hoa province, by building two additional container wharfs, and build a seaport in the Son Tra peninsula in central Da Nang province.
