The Vietnam Maritime Administration has been implementing many solutions to ensure that the logistics supply chain via sea is not “broken”.
The specific solution is to create open conditions so that Vietnamese ship owners can buy immediately, or after buying can sell immediately to “snap” the opportunity to buy ships with better exploitation efficiency.

Talking to a VNA reporter on August 10, Hoang Hong Giang, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Maritime Administration, said that the situation of importing and exporting goods through the seas of Vietnam is still guaranteed. However, this activity will be proportional to the situation of Covid-19 epidemic control.

If the Covid-19 epidemic is well controlled in the near future, import and export activities will ensure stability. The Vietnam Maritime Administration has been implementing many solutions to ensure that the logistics supply chain via sea is not “broken”.

Mr. Hoang Hong Giang said that the import and export volume of goods through Vietnam’s seaports as of mid-July still grew well. But, according to forecasts in the second half of July and August, output may decrease in the southern region, where many provinces and cities are implementing social distancing.

According to the data of the Vietnam Commodity Department announced earlier, in the first 7 months of 2021, the volume of goods through Vietnam’s seaports is more than 425 million tons, up 6% over the same period in 2020. In which, export goods reached more than 106 million tons, up 9%; imported goods reached more than 133 million tons, up 2%; domestic goods reached nearly 184 million tons, up 7% over the same period last year.

Particularly for container cargo, the throughput of seaports is estimated at 14.7 million TEUs, up 21% over the same period in 2020. This is also a high growth rate of container cargo in the past few years.

Regarding the issue of sea freight rates and surcharges continuously increasing over time, as explained by economic experts, international shipping is a logistics chain from the place of production to the place of distribution. But up to this point, Vietnam has only 38 container ships, accounting for 3.7% in the structure of the transport fleet.

In the context of freight transport following the trend of containerization, the market share of Vietnam’s fleet is increasingly small and by 2020 it will only be 5%. Currently, 95% of Vietnam’s import and export goods market share depends on 40 foreign shipping lines in Vietnam.

Therefore, Vietnamese exporters do not have the opportunity to choose and are forced to accept the conditions and costs offered by foreign shipping lines.

Therefore, in order to proactively source containers, reduce dependence and regain market share from foreign shipping lines, Vietnam needs to focus on investing in a strong enough shipping fleet and building a container manufacturing plant to handle shipping costs. leading the trend of increasing trade surplus in the future.

Regarding the current status of Vietnam’s shipping fleet, Mr. Hoang Hong Giang informed that at present, this fleet can only guarantee short routes to intra-Asia, long routes are not yet capable of participating. Specifically, the Vietnamese fleet participates mainly in routes to Asia and Southeast Asia, while the furthest route only reaches Australia.

According to the Vietnam Maritime Administration, the reason is that foreign fleets are increasingly being lifted tonnage with closed transport routes between continents. While the domestic fleet has limited capital, businesses only invest in small tonnage ships.

Specifically, while in the world, container ships have grown to ships with a capacity of over 20,000 TEUs, Vietnamese enterprises have only invested in ships with an average capacity of about 800 TEUs and the largest vessel is nearly 1,800 TEUs.

According to the leader of the Vietnam Maritime Administration, in the Resolution on the main tasks and solutions to promote economic growth in the last months of 2021 and early 2022, issued recently, the Government asked the Ministry of Transport to assume the prime responsibility for researching, building and developing Vietnam’s international shipping fleet in order to reduce costs and improve the initiative for import and export activities.

In the coming time, the Vietnam Maritime Administration will study and advise specific solutions. In which, there is the creation of open conditions for Vietnamese ship owners to buy immediately. Or, after buying, you can sell immediately to “snap” the opportunity to buy a ship with better exploitation efficiency.

Many economic experts still maintain the view that, because most of our country’s exports by sea have long depended on foreign ships, even though, through inspection, the authorities could not detect it. signs of market manipulation by foreign shipping lines. However, public opinion cannot help but wonder about the phenomenon of charges that have continuously escalated up to 10 times in the past 2 years.

In fact, many shipping lines, despite difficult customers, deliberately raise shipping rental prices, causing domestic import and export enterprises to suffer many losses. Therefore, before thinking of solutions to improve the capacity of the domestic fleet, it is necessary to immediately implement solutions to control the price of shipping services through improving the state management capacity in this field.

In this regard, Mr. Hoang Hong Giang said that the Ministry of Transport is reviewing and supplementing regulations to improve the efficiency of state management of container shipping lines operating in Vietnam.

Along with that, the Ministry of Transport also proposed solutions to improve service price management; in which, it is proposed to the Ministry of Finance to consider amending and supplementing regulations on freight rates and other surcharges collected in addition to the charges that shipping lines collect for owners of imported goods at Vietnamese ports.

At the same time, amending and supplementing current regulations on sanctions in case enterprises fail to declare and list prices in the direction of increasing the sanction level.

Another important solution proposed by the Ministry of Transport is to improve the competitiveness of Vietnamese import-export goods owners…/.

Source: bnews.vn

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