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Overloaded Saigon Port asks customers to go to other ports
A significant jump in cargo volume is overloading Saigon Port, its chief said, suggesting goods owners should move docking vessels to other nearby ports.
In the first four months of this year, the port, located in Ho Chi Minh City, handled 6.38 million tons of cargo, up 43 percent from a year earlier, Le Cong Minh, its General Director, said in a report to the government on Monday.
At one point in the middle of last month, 50 vessels were docked at the port though it can only handle only half that number. As of Monday, 42 ships were awaiting either loading or unloading at the port, Minh said.
He said since more than 80 percent of goods passing through the port in the January-April period were breakbulk, or packaged but non-containerized, cargo like animal feed and cassava, it took a long time to handle them.
The figure was four times higher than in the same period last year, according to the report.
Minh said people whose break bulk cargo is aboard vessels docking at Saigon Port should contact other ports like Cat Lai, Ben Nghe and Tan Thuan Dong or wharfs along the Saigon, Dong Nai and Soai Rap rivers, to ease the congestion.
thanhnien, vietnamplus
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