Currently, Danang Port is the biggest seaport in the central region of Vietnam and is considered one of the ports possessing many favourable conditions for development. With a prime location, Danang Port is the focal point of many sea routes for the country and beyond. It also acts as the goods exchange gateway for the Central Highlands region, as well as Laos and northeast Thailand. Taking advantage of the location and sparing no effort to exploit its potential, Danang Port has become a modern container port in central Vietnam.
After transforming its operation model into one-member limited company, Danang Port has seen positive changes in terms of both quality and quantity. To realize the strategy to turn Danang Port into the biggest container port in the region, in recent years, Danang Port has made large investment in developing infrastructure, expanding warehouses, procuring modern uploading facilities and training human resources to meet the requirements of using modern technology. Currently, the port has completed mechanization and semi-mechanization for up to 85 percent of unloading; thereby creating its own advantages in competition with other ports in the region. Besides effectively exploiting the advantage of container transport, Danang Port has focused on improving its service quality, providing reasonable charges, simplifying procedures, promoting marketing, expanding markets, and attracting goods from Laos to transit through the port. To date, the goods transported via Danang Port are not only from businesses in the city, but also from the Central Highlands province, northern China and Laos.
With intensive investment and relentless performance improvement, Danang Port has achieved extraordinary development. Especially in the first seven months of 2012, the goods output through the port was 2.665 million tonnes, an increase of 20 percent over the same period in 2011; and 79,854 TEUs for container goods, an increase of 35 percent over the same period last year. Particularly in July, the number of ships and the output of container cargo through the port made an outstanding record with 13,197 TEUs on 50 ships. This is the result of the expediting modernization, boosting marketing and improving administrative procedures of the port. Notably, special attention has been paid to surveys, market expansion, tariff policy, goods safety and service diversification. Therefore, over time, the port will attract more and more customers from north-central Vietnam and southern Laos.
The achievements of Danang Port are of great significance, contributing to the socio-economic development of the region and the Central Highlands, though it is only the first step in the process of international integration, especially the regional cooperation of GMS countries. In that common trend, Danang Port plays an important role as a gateway of goods circulation from the region to the world. This is considered an opportunity and challenge for Danang Port’s current and future generations who are expected to strive to constantly upgrade the infrastructure, develop human resources, and improve quality in every aspect, making Danang Port maintain its position as the main sea port of Danang City and the region.
Mr Nguyen Thu, General Director of Danang Port One-member Limited Company, revealed that in order to realize the objective to turn Danang Port into a modern seaport pursuing container and tourist ship development, in the period of 2011-2015 and toward 2020, the Danang Port continues to expand investment in Tien Sa Port in phase 2, receiving ships of 60,000 DWT and container ships of 3000 TEUs, and accelerate the expansion of Tien Sa Port warehouse in the south and the north to develop logistics services. Simultaneously, focus will be laid on building the port at Son Tra with the length of 400m and establishing a 30 hectare warehouse on the north-south highway. It is expected that by 2015, with Danang Port’s tireless efforts, goods output through the port will reach 8 million tons, of which container cargo volume will be 250,000 TEUs, contributing significantly to the industrialization and modernization of the city.
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