VietNamNet
Bridge – The Ministry of Finance (MOF)
has decided to offer preferential fees in an effort to rescue the Cai Mep – Thi
Vai port developers who have seen the number of international ships going in
and out decreasing sharply.
Port
developers, port service providers, and export companies will enjoy benefits
when MOF has decided to maintain the mechanism on offering preferential fees
applied to the big tonnage ships docking at the Cai Mep – Thi Vai port.
The first
beneficiaries of the Circular No. 41/BTC stipulating the maritime fees on the
big tonnage docking at the Cai Mep – Thi Vai port will be the ships with the
tonnage of 50,000 DWT and higher to enter the ports in the Cai Mep – Thi Vai,
Ba Ria – Vung Tau areas.
Under
the legal document, the ships with the tonnage of over 50,000 DWT that dock at
the first group of international transit ports in Vietnam would continue
enjoying the 40 percent reduction in the maritime security fee, tonnage charge
and the 50 percent reduction in the pilotage fee in comparison with the normal
levels stipulated in the Decision No 98.
Analysts
have commented that these should be seen as very big preferences for the ships
with the tonnage of over 100,000 DWT. The ship owners would be able to save
5000 dollars in maritime security fee, 1536 dollars in tonnage charge and 170
dollars at least for every mile guided.
According
to Bui Thien Thu, Deputy Head of the Vietnam Maritime Bureau, the Circular 41,
in fact, is the extension of the decision on offering preferential fees and
charges which was once released by MOF in October 2010. The decision to extend
the regulation on preferential fees has been made after MOF realized that it is
necessary to offer preferences to attract more international ships to
Vietnamese ports.
Prior
to that, some big shipping agents in the world which have the sea routes to the
ports, including OOCL, NYK, Hapag Lloyd AG; Maersk Việt Nam; Yang Ming; K Lines
sent a petition to the Ministry of Transport, asking for the permission to
continue enjoying the preferential fees and charges.
The
representative of the shipping firms said that the costs at the Cai Mep – Thi
Vai ports are really less competitive than that in other regional countries.
Every time when big ships, 51,000 DWT (4500 TEU), enter the ports, they can
“pick up” only several hundreds of TEUs in goods.
If
Vietnam does not offer preferential fees, international shipping firms’ ships
would not enter the ports, especially when they are incurring big losses and
considering cutting some routes, General Director of Hanjin Shipping Vietnam
Park Hoon warned.
Not
only shipping firms, the foreign invested port developers have also asked for
the preferential fees. In December 2011, in the document sent to the Ministry
of Transport and the Vietnam Maritime Bureau, CMIT, a port developer – the
joint venture between the Saigon Port and Danish APM Terminal, even asked to
reduce fees on the ships with the tonnage of 15,000 DWT as well.
Nguyen
Xuan Ky, Deputy General Director of CMIT, said the competitiveness and
attractiveness of the Cai Mep – Thi Vai port area have not been as high as
expected, thus making the investor, who has spent hundreds of millions of
dollars on the port infrastructure items, feel worried. He said that in the
context of the slow recovery of the world economy, both port developers and
shipping firms need the support from the State to survive the current
difficulties.
According
to the Vietnam Maritime Bureau, due to the international gloomy shipping
market, the number of international ships going to and from the Cai Mep – Thi
Vai port has decreased sharply. As a result, port service providers have to
reduce the handling fees.
Source:
SGTT
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