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Two shipping routes opened to ease pressure on roads
  • | Nhan Dan | October 06, 2014 08:08 PM

Two new seamless coastal shipping routes, connecting central Quang Binh province and southern Kien Giang province, officially opened on October 5.

The launch of the two new coastal shipping routes aims to boost waterway transport and ease pressure on roads.
The launch of the two new coastal shipping routes aims to boost waterway transport and ease pressure on roads.

Deputy Director of Vietnam Inland Waterways Administration (VIWA), Tran Van Tho, said that three months after the Ministry of Transport (MoT) put the coastal shipping route from northern Quang Ninh province to Quang Binh into operation, the sea route helped ease pressures on road transport, in addition to reducing traffic accidents, protecting transportation infrastructure, and reducing freight costs.

For that reason, the MoT has decided launch two sea routes from Quang Binh to Kien Giang (Quang Binh-Binh Thuan and Binh Thuan-Kien Giang routes) with a total length of 1,560km, Tho revealed.

Surveys by the VIWA showed that there was a large demand for freight transport on these routes. Annual freight volumes transported among the Mekong Delta provinces alone was estimated at 51.5 million tonnes per year. Meanwhile in Da Nang, transport demand for goods such as petroleum, clinker, fertilisers, wood, and steel reached more than 400,000 tonnes a year.

Speaking at the launch, Deputy Minister of Transport, Nguyen Van Cong, said that coastal shipping routes were among solutions to enhance transportation methods in a bid to reduce pressure on road transport and inventories at ports.


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