Cai Lan Port in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh has received its first 8,285dwt container ship. Ocean Park belongs to the Hanoi joint Stock Shipping Company and carried 450 TEUs for delivery there.

General Forwarding and Agency Company (Gemadept) sent the first container shipment of 36 containers of clothing and plastic products to Cambodia on July 10, 2001 via the newly opened river route linking Vietnam directly to Cambodia.

Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), Japan's leading shipping line, has officially opened a new container transport route linking port from China, Japan and Hong Kong to Cai Lan Port in Northern Vietnam.

Vietnam Sea Transport and Chartering Company (Vitranschart) has added a 6,500dwt cargo ship to its fleet. Handed over last month at Dong Nai province's Long Thanh Port, the Vien Dong was built by Haiphong's Bach Dang Shipbuilding factory with $6.5 million of state capital.

The Prime Minister has permitted the Saigon Tan Cang Company (Saigon New Port) to select an appropriate site within the companys area of responsibility to set up an "open port area" for the trans-shipment of containers.

Construction work on a shipyard of the Viet Nam Coal Corporation began at the Cai Lan Industrial Park in the northern port city of Quang Ninh on Sunday.

Foreign fishing boats that encroach on Vietnam's territorial waters face fines of up to $30,000 and the threat of having fishing equipment confiscated, according to a decree recently issued by the prime minister.

For the first time, a transportation company of Viet Nam, Gemadept, will launch a sea container transport service from HCM City to Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Capital by early July, ahead of growing trade between the two countries.

The Vietnam Insurance Company, Bao Viet, has offered domestic shipbuilding companies a new insurance product in the Vietnamese market: the shipbuilding risk insurance.

The accession of 10 East European countries into the European Union (EU) has created both opportunities and challenges for Vietnamese enterprises. As committed with the EU, from this year, Vietnam will open its door to welcome some European shipping service providers. Therefore, domestic shipping companies will encounter bigger challenges than those from other sectors