A 71.171 DWT cargo ship of the Bahamas, named "Go Public" entered the newly-built dock in the Cam Pha port of the northern province of Quang Ninh on June 22.

The Gemadept-Dung Quat International Port joint stock company was licensed to invest 575 billion VND (35.9 million USD) in building Dung Quat general port's pier No.1 in central Quang Ngai province.

Vietnam authorities have sought a permission to inspect the transport ministry's VND1.4 trillion (over $88 million) port project where an alleged VND100 billion ($6.25 million) was embezzled.

In the year to early May, stevedores at Saigon Port handled 4.4 million tones of goods, a 10 per cent increase on the corresponding period last year.

The construction of a 250 million USD container port, jointly invested by the United Kingdom (UK) ports and ferries group P&O Ports and the Tan Thuan Industrial Promotion Company (IPC), began in Ho Chi Minh City on June 7.

The Government has given more authority to the Ministry of Communications and Transport so that it can more quickly develop an international transshipment port in the central region's Van Phong Bay.

The conference was organized in Hue City on 02 and 03 of June, 2006. At the moment, VPA has 43 membership ports.

The Saigon Port in Ho Chi Minh City has so far this year handled more than 4.4 million tonnes of import and export goods, a 10 percent increase compared to the same period last year.

One of 9 members of Saigon Port, Tan Thuan II Stevedoring Company is entrusted for operation of 5 kinds of goods: export bagged rice, clinker, coal, fertilizer and bagged bran.

(SGT-HCMC) Saigon New Port Company on Saturday launched Cat Lai Free Port Zone in Cat Lai Port in HCMC's District 2, the first of its type in Vietnam.