8,500-square-foot facility is located in the Cat Lai area of Ho Chi Minh City Geodis Wilson has opened a new logistics center in southern Vietnam to meet rising demand.

The Ministry of Transport has just issued a new circular on license issuance for foreign shipping companies running on local routes in a bid to keep them from illegally dominating the market at home.

The Government on September 29 issued an Official Dispatch requesting quicker cargo handling in seaports nationwide.

A high level meeting on sea and island strategy to 2020 was held in the central coastal province of Binh Dinh on Saturday.

Importers of animal feed face big losses if nearly 100,000 tonnes of maize and soybean imported from India early in January have to be sent back because of traces of termites.

With 3,260 km of coastline, over 3,000 islands and territorial waters three times the size of its land mass, Vietnam has a lot of potential to develop its maritime economy. However, it is essential to create and promote a national maritime trademark as soon as possible.

Vietnam aims to develop its maritime economy so that the sector contributes more than half to the nation's GDP ten years from now, a senior official of the Vietnam Maritime Administration (VMA) said.

Vietnam must strive to become a strong and rich nation and benefit from the resources held within its territorial waters. In the near future, the marine economy is expected to account for 53-55 percent of the country’s GDP and 55-56 percent of its total export turnover. This target was set out in a resolution on the nations maritime strategy until 2020 adopted at the 4 th Meeting of the 10 th Party Central Committee in 2006.

Kerry Logistics opened the first phase of a logistics center in Danang in central Vietnam. Along with units in Ho Chi Minh City in the south and Hanoi in the north, the facility helps provide full coverage for the whole country.

The International Tank Container Organisation (ITCO) and the Container Owners Association (COA) are sending their members and exhibition containers on a trip to Shanghai in June, where they will be signalling the revival of the container business by taking a container pavilion at transport logistic China. Asia's most important exhibition for logistics, telematics and transport is taking place from 8 to 10 June 2010 in China at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC).