A critical information related to domestic waterway transportation
- Author Hai Nam Vu
- DOI
- Country : Vietnam
- Subject : Transport
Keywords : domestic waterway, solutions, policies, orientation
Abstract
Statistics show that there are 3,500 rivers and canals flowing into the sea through 124 river mouths with a total length of about 80,500km, of which 42,000km of river mouths are capable of developing water transport. In addition, there are 272 inland waterways ports and 8,730 seaports. As known, water transportation accounts for 53% of freight in our country in which 48% of the domestic waterway transportation with more than 210 million tons of goods transport by domestic waterway each year in it Mekong Delta is the main transport route with the largest mass transportation in our country. This is really great potential for developing Vietnam's inland waterway transport industry. Although there are many potentials, in the past years, Vietnam's inland waterway transport industry has developed slowly because it has many "bottlenecks" such as relying on nature as the main source of investment "dripping" and the old and obsolete facilities ... In order to "awaken" potential and develop worthy, this industry needs to change right from thinking and awareness.
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