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Container trucks travel on a crowded road in HCMC. Suffi cient infrastructure and synchronous modes of transportation are the key factors for logistics service growth - Photo: Anh Quan
Speaking at a seminar on maritime logistics in HCMC last Friday, the director of the Vietnam Maritime Administration office in HCMC, Nguyen Van Hung, said Vietnam has many favorable conditions for logistics development such as its railways, waterways, airports and international border gates.
Hung said solid and comprehensive infrastructure would provide great impetus for logistics services to grow. Ports should be seen as a point of convergence for all means of transport like railway, waterway and road.
Therefore, the Ministry of Transport has built and upgraded many traffic infrastructure systems to reduce logistics fees, helping enterprises improve business operations and increase competitiveness of their services.
The ministry is weighing connecting all modes of transportation and providing support services for major clusters of ports. The project could go before the Government this month, Hung said.
Suzanne Sweerman, executive director of the Netherlands’ Foreign Investment Agency in Southeast Asia, said infrastructure is the most important factor of logistics services.
In the Netherlands, traffic systems are well connected to ports.
Concerning import and export formalities, container checks are conducted by scanners, thus helping speed up customs procedures, Sweerman said.
To attract shippers to seaports in the Netherlands, the nation has offered deferred
payments of value added tax (VAT) for enterprises shipping goods to Europe through Dutch ports. The tax incentive has given support to enterprises given the current economic crisis.
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