Seaport

$40 bln needed to fund traffic projects

Vietnam will need VND800 trillion (US$40 billion), to fund key traffic projects from now to 2015, said an official of the Ministry of Transport

Mobiles, cosmetics, spirits subject to seaport restrictions

Businesses will only be allowed to import mobile phones, cosmetics and liquor via the three seaports of Hai Phong, Da Nang and HCM City from the beginning of next month.

Int’l economic integration requires logistics

Organisations, investors and businesses both at home and abroad operating in logistics and seaport services discussed measures to develop the sector in Vietnam in the face of international economic integration, at a forum in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on March 30.

Vietnam's first deep-water seaport opens

Tan Cang-Cai Mep Port, the Vietnam's first deep-water container port, has been inaugurated in the southern coastal Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province

Project to exploit East-West economic corridor

The central province of Quang Tri has officially unveiled a project to develop a marine economic zone and a deep water seaport that are expected to help it better exploit the Trans-Asia Highway, now called the East-west Economic Corridor (EWEC).

Ports seek public-private money

Local and international investors have been asked to take part in seaport projects under the public-private-partnership (PPP) form, an official has said.

Vietnam seeks to elevate status of seaports

Vietnam should seek every possible way to promote its marine advantages and make the best use of investment sources to develop seaport infrastructure

Vietnam seeks to elevate status of seaports

Vietnam should seek every possible way to promote its marine advantages and potential as well as make the best use of investment sources to develop seaport infrastructure to meet future demands of growth and development.

From Environment

Nutrious milk smugglers confiscated

THUA THIEN – HUE – Hue City's police turned away a smuggling ring and confiscated 10,000 US's Abbott milk-cans with labels transformed, the town investigative police confirmed with Viet Nam News today.Ton Nu Cam Dung was altering labels of Abbot's Ensure milk at her house with an Cuu Ward's Phan Chu Trinh Street. A lot more than 5,000 cans with yellow labels, 1,600 with blue labels and 500 without label were grabbed.Law enforcement also discovered 50 boxes of milk-cans that contains cans with changed

No funds to evacuate landslide areas

HCM CITY — The dearth of enormous sums of cash to maneuver citizens from landslide – and natural disaster-prone areas causes it to be hard for local government bodies to satisfy the Government's target.Families residing in 100s of landslide-prone areas and 60 river valleys threatened by surges were set to become gone to live in safe areas and assisted with moving, based on the Secretary of state for Agriculture and Rural Development.Pham Khanh Ly, deputy director from the ministry's Department of