Abstract
Vietnam currently has 39 container shipping ships with a total tonnage of about 30,000 TUE; Vinalines has 11 ships. Thus, Vietnam's container fleet annually transports between 1.2 and 1.3 million TUE. Thus, compared with the total volume of imports and exports through the port each year about 18 million TUE, the container fleet of Vietnam is less than 10%. According to the report of the Vietnam Maritime Administration, up to now, Vietnam's fleet has 1,568 ships with a total tonnage of about 7.8 million tons, ranking 4th in ASEAN (after Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia) and 30th In the world. The average age of Vietnam's fleet is currently 15.6, younger than 5.2 years of the world (20.8 years old). The structure of Vietnam's fleet has also grown towards specialization, especially, Vietnam's container fleet has grown quite well from 19 ships (2013) to 39 ships (2019).
Highlights
About volume of goods handled by seaports by Vietnamese fleets reached 81.2 million tons, up 16% over the same period in 2018; in which the volume of containerized cargo through the port of Vietnam fleet reached 1.2 million TEUs, up 5% over the same period last year
Vietnam's seaport system has only Hai Phong port connected to the railway, but the exploitation efficiency is not high, and there is no separate highway for transporting goods [14]
The hull of a typical container ship is a huge warehouse divided into cells by vertical guide rails
Summary
About volume of goods handled by seaports by Vietnamese fleets reached 81.2 million tons, up 16% over the same period in 2018; in which the volume of containerized cargo through the port of Vietnam fleet reached 1.2 million TEUs, up 5% over the same period last year. With the small number of ships and the remaining low tonnage, which cannot be operated on routes far from Vietnamese fleets, there is still fierce competition from rivals such as WANHAI, APM, APS, STRAITSHIPPIH, leading to severe freight rates, greatly affecting the business efficiency of the fleet. The cost of freight containers from the port to the customer's warehouse (and vice versa) is relatively high At peak times such as the export of agricultural products, the number of existing vehicles does not meet the transport needs and is overloaded for traffic in some big cities like Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi. Vietnam's seaport system has only Hai Phong port connected to the railway, but the exploitation efficiency is not high, and there is no separate highway for transporting goods [14]. Facing the requirements of scientifictechnical progress and demands of foreign customers as well as the great economic benefits brought about by container shipping, the construction of the container port system and the current Container fleet
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