BÁO CÁO QUY HOẠCH 12000 DỰ ÁN TRUNG TÂM LOGISTIC CÁI MÉP HẠ

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Table of contents

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I. PROJECT OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................ 1
I.1. Overview ............................................................................................................................................. 1
I.2. Legal basis .......................................................................................................................................... 4
I.3. Reference Documents ........................................................................................................................ 5

II. CONDITIONS OF CONCEPTUAL DESIGN ....................................................................... 7
II.1. Existing conditions and development plan of the seaports of Group 5 ....................................... 7
II.1.1. Existing conditions ...................................................................................................................... 7
II.1.2. Development planning .............................................................................................................. 11
II.2. The current conditions and development plan of ICD, distribution center in South East
region. ...................................................................................................................................................... 15
II.2.1. Current conditions ..................................................................................................................... 15
II.2.2. Development planning .............................................................................................................. 16
II.3. Natural conditions of the planning area....................................................................................... 20
II.3.1. Topographical conditions .......................................................................................................... 20
II.3.2. Geological Conditions............................................................................................................... 21

II.3.3. Meteorological conditions ......................................................................................................... 21
II.3.4. Hydrological conditions ............................................................................................................. 22
II.3.5. Seismic conditions .................................................................................................................... 22
II.3.6. Geological Conditions............................................................................................................... 22
II.3.7. Meteorological conditions ......................................................................................................... 23
II.3.8. Hydrological conditions ............................................................................................................ 23
II.3.9. Seismic conditions .................................................................................................................... 24

III. IDENTIFY PLANNING TARGET ...................................................................................... 25
III.1. Cargo demand forecast through Cai Mep Ha Logistics Center ............................................... 25
III.1.1. Analizing imported cargo container direction through port group 5 ....................................... 25
III.1.2. Cargo forecast via Seaport Group 5: ........................................................................................ 27
III.1.3. Forecast of cargo need via Cai Mep Ha Logistic Center ......................................................... 28
III.2. Land Use Forecast ........................................................................................................................ 31
III.3. Proposal on the land use indicators ............................................................................................ 31

IV. PLANNING REPORT........................................................................................................... 33
IV.1. Planning Structure ........................................................................................................................ 33
IV.2. Land use plan ................................................................................................................................ 36
IV.3. Landscape architecture space organization ............................................................................... 40
IV.4. Transportation organization ........................................................................................................ 46
IV.5. Estimated investment cost ............................................................................................................ 49
IV.6. Phased construction ...................................................................................................................... 52

V. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS................................................................... 63

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LIST OF TABLE AND FIGURE
List of table
Table 1: The goods volume movement throught the seaports of Group 5 ............................................. 7
Table 2: Volume of container cargo carriage movement through ports in Group 5 .............................. 8
Table 3: Comparision of volume of dry cargo and container cargo carriage movement through the
seaports of Group 5 compared to the national volume ........................................................................ 10
Table 4: Cargo containers’source exported through seaport group 5 .................................................. 25
Table 5: Destination of exported container from seaport group 5 ....................................................... 26
Table 6: Container cargo forecast via seaport group 5 ........................................................................ 28
Table 7: Forecast of updated container cargo via seaport group 5 ...................................................... 28
Table 8: Summarize develop demand of Inland Container Depot system until 2020 - 2030 .............. 29
Table 9: Cargo demand forecast via Cai Mep Ha Logistic Center ...................................................... 30
Table 10: Land use scale forecast for Cai Mep Ha Logistic Center .................................................... 31
Table 11: Land use ratio in the industrial zone .................................................................................... 32
Table 12: The detailed land use plan of the logistic center.................................................................. 37
Table 13: Transportation system statistic............................................................................................. 48
Table 14: Transportation system indicator .......................................................................................... 49
Table 15: Cost estimation for construction of transportation system................................................... 49
Table 16: Cost estimation for investment and construction of the whole study area including ports in
Cai Mep downstream (1125ha) ........................................................................................................... 49
Table 17: Cost estimation for investment and construction of Cai Mep Ha Logistic Center ( 599 ha) 50
Table 18: Statistic Table for transportation network item in stage 1 ................................................... 52
Table 19: Cost estimate on infrastructure network construction in stage 1 ......................................... 53
Table 20: The detailed land use of the logistics center in the stage 2 .................................................. 55
Table 21: Investment Cost Estimate in the Stage 2 ............................................................................. 57
Table 22: Detailed land use plan of the logistics center in the Stage 3 ............................................... 59

Table 23: Investment Cost Estimate in the Stage 3 ............................................................................. 60
Table 24: Detailed land use plan of the logistics center in the Stage 4 ............................................... 61
Table 25: Investment cost estimate in the Stage 4 ............................................................................... 62

List of figure
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Figure 1: Location of ICDs in South East region ................................................................................ 16
Figure 2: Location of ICDs which shall be newly constructed or expanded in South East region ...... 17
Figure 3: Layout of Mien Dong transit general warehouse ................................................................. 18
Figure 4: Topographic conditions of Cái Mép Hạ logistics center ...................................................... 20
Figure 5: Topographic conditions of Cái Mép Hạ logistics center ...................................................... 33
Figure 6: Existing condition of water surface, chanel, and floristic network ...................................... 33
Figure 7: Green zone network ............................................................................................................. 34
Figure 8: Structural Planning of Logistics Center ............................................................................... 35
Figure 9: Layout of Landmark Functional Areas in the Project .......................................................... 35
Figure 10: Land Use of Project ............................................................................................................ 36
Figure 11: Layout of Lanscape Architecture Space ............................................................................. 40
Figure 12: Layout of Logistic warehouse ............................................................................................ 41
Figure 13: Location of container yard.................................................................................................. 42
Figure 14: Location of Exporting Processing Zone ............................................................................. 42
Figure 15: Location of the bonded warehouse ..................................................................................... 43
Figure 16: Location of free trade center .............................................................................................. 44
Figure 17: Image of worker house area and residential area of the experts ......................................... 45

Figure 18: Image of the office, training and exhibition ....................................................................... 46
Figure 19: Illustration Figure on insfrastruction framework construction in early stage ..................... 54
Figure 20: Illustration of functional area to be constructed in the stage 2 (2020-2030) ...................... 55
Figure 21: Illustration of functional area to be constructed in the stage 3 (2030-2040) ...................... 58
Figure 22: Illustration of land use in the stage

4 (2040-2050) ......................................................... 61

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I. PROJECT OVERVIEW
I.1. Overview
As defined in the Law on Commerce 2005, logistics services (hereafter being interpreted as
logistics) shall be construed as the economic activities including transportation supply
activities, warehousing services, cargo handling, port services, ICDs, custom declaration
services, import and export. Generally, logistics is the economic link of whole production
process, goods circulation and distribution.
In the world, logistic services have been developing for the long time and playing an
important position in the modern economy as adhesion factor for all stages from supplying
input materials, distribution of the final products to the consumers. It has been developing as
the backbone of international trading activities. The integration of logistics services shall
accelerate the linkage among production sectors in each country as well as the countries in the
global economy. Currently, logistics activities account for 10 - 15% GDP of almost countries
in Asia and America.

The development of logistic services is closely associated with the development of multimodal transportation. Its fundamental basis is associated with the development of the
technical infrastructure including the seaports, airports, railways, motorways, river, and others
facilities such as warehousing, handling system, communication system. Among the
transportation means, seaway transportation has dominant advantages in terms of costs,
transport volume, environmental factors. Therefore, the seaports have been considered as the
most important infrastructure for the development of logistics services functioning as the focal
point, gathering, connecting all transportation means including railway, road, river, seaway,
airway and pipeline.
In the port infrastructure, the container terminals play a significant role for the development of
logistics services, as the basis to deploy logistics activities. In those terminals, goods shall be
transferred from seaway transportation means to other transportation means and vice- verse, or
be stored, collected, packed, splitted, labeled to transport to the final destination. Obviously,
those activities cover almost logistics chain operation’s activities. The development of
container terminal promotes not only the exporting, foreign trading but also directly supports
logistic activities. Therefore, to some extents, container terminal is the important place for the
logistics operation.
Vietnam has many favorable factors to develop logistic services with 3,260km coastal line,
4,639 km border line located in the strategic location of South East Asia which might be
considered as available natural investment for Vietnam logistics business enterprises. In
Vietnam, logistics services have been developing since 1990 including freight forwarding,
warehousing services. Currently, there are 1,300 on-going enterprises supplying logistic
services, including 20% state-owned companies, 70% company limited and about 10% private
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companies. Those companies mainly are agencies or outsourcing companies who are in charge
for some specific steps in the whole logistics chain of international logistic companies.
Meanwhile, there are more than 25 multi-national enterprises operating in Vietnam which
accounts for 70-80% shares of national logistics services supplying. The reasons of the weak
and low competiveness of Vietnam logistic sector are due to the poor infrastructure,
overlapped management, lack of cooperation among transport business enterprises and
shortage of professional staff working in logistics sector as well as limited logistic operation
capability.
In the context that Vietnam joined WTO and the economy has been integrating deeply into the
world economy, the exporting activities has been growing and the domestic trading has been
more and more expanding, the demand of logistics services has been increasing. Therefore, it
requires special attention and solutions to limit our weaknesses and to improve our
competiveness of the logistics services which is considered as the “infrastructure” of the
economy and plays an important role in the economic growth and economic re-structuring.
As mentioned above, the fundamental basis to develop logistics sector is the seaport
infrastructure, especially container terminals. Under the Decision ref. 1037/QD-TTg dated
24/6/2014 by the Prime Minister regarding the approval of Vietnam port system planning by
2020, with a vision toward 2030; Vietnam port system has been categorized into 6 groups.
The South East port group (Group 5) including Vung Tau Port, Dong Nai Port, Ho Chi Minh
city Port has achieved the most rapid development of pace and scale. The freight volume of
Group 5 (excluding transit and forwarding goods) is about 238 ÷ 248 million tons/year by
2020 and 358,5 ÷ 411,5 tons/year by 2030 as expected. Currently, the total volume of goods
through the Port Group 5 accounts for 40% of the country seaport; especially, the container
cargo account for over 60% of the national port. However, the logistics system of the
Southeast region remains weak and undertakes only some steps of the whole process of
logistics operations; inland container depots are mainly concentrated in the city area. Inland
container depots (ICD) are located mainly in Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai, Binh Duong but
have not been developed into new areas such as the Cai Mep - Thi Vai (Ba Ria - Vung Tau)
and Hiep Phuoc (Ho Chi Minh City).
In Vung Tau port, there are many port projects which have been implementing with the strong

participation of the world leading groups in the field of transportation and port operation.
Especially, Cai Mep – Thi Vai port project using ODA loan has been promoting the
investment in port in the region. The terminals of Vung Tau port have been completed and
operating such as: Tan Cang Cai Mep (TTCT&TCIT), SP-PSA international container
terminal, Posco terminal, SITV terminals, CMIT term, Cai Mep- Thi Vai International
terminals (ODA loan), SSIT international container terminal. Construction work of other
terminals/ports has been urgently implemented i.e, Gemadept Terminal Link port is expected
to complete its construction in one or two years later. Besides, dredging works has been

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completed in Vung Tau- Thi Vai navigation channel to enable the vessels with the loading
capacity of 80.000DWT in Cai Mep area, and vessels with the loading capacity of
75.000DWT in Phu My; In May 2010, the container ship with loading capacity of
116.000DWT, length of 367m has been navigated and departed safely from SP-PSA terminal.
On 19/12/2011, the ship with loading capacity of 157,092 DWT carrying 13.830 TEUs has
entered and departed from CMIT terminal. Currently, CMIT terminal has been studying and
cooperating with the authorities to enable Triple E container ships (18,000 TEUs) to enter and
handle the cargos in the terminal. This is the key basis to study the development planning of
regional Cai Mep – Thi Vai port to receive the ships with the loading capacity up to 100,000
DWT for the international transshipment for the South of Vietnam and other countries in
Mekong – Sub-region area.
Under the Decision ref. 3327/QĐ-BGTVT dated 29/8/2014 by the Ministry of Transport
regarding the approval of the detailed planning for seaport in the South East (Group 5) by

2020 and the orientation toward 2030, Vung Tau port is the national general port and an
international gateway (type IA) functioning as international transshipment. The capability of
the port might meet the demand of freight transportation of 101,6÷109,2 million tons/year by
2020, and 161,8÷195,5 million tons/year by 2030. It is expected that the containers shall be
3,58÷4,17 million TEU/year by 2020 (accounting for 37÷40% total cargo volume of
containers in Group 5) and 7,58÷9,42 million TEUs/year (accounting for 44÷46% total cargo
volume of container Group 5 by 2030. Hence, it presents the container cargo movement trend
in the Group 5 and the future role of Vung Tau seaport to the seaport system in the Group 5 as
well as the development demand of logistic services in this area.
Vung Tau seaport – port 1A type as the international gateway in the South of Vietnam shall
handle cargo exporting/importing of long shipping routes of the whole South region.
Therefore, it is necessary to study, formulate the basic conditions of infrastructure, and
organize the operation, management, financial and banking services and other specific
required services to strengthen the competiveness, attract international cargo transshipment in
the region.
The comphrensive development strategy of service sector in Vietnam by 2020 has been
approved by the Prime Minister in the Decision ref. 175/QD-TTg dated January 27th, 2011.
Accordingly, the basic development orientation of the logistic services sector covers: (i)
Considering logistics as the key factor to promote the production, distribution system of other
service sectors and to develop the domestic goods circulation and exporting/importing
activities. (ii) Formulating the full 3PL package (integrated 3PL); developing e- logistics and
e-commerce and effectively and friendly managing the supply chain. (iii) Achieving the
growth rate of logistics sector at 20 - 25% year; The ratio of outsourcing logistics is 40% by
2020.
On 02/6/2011, the Government Office issued the Notice ref. 132/TB-VPCP, announcing the
conclusion of the Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in the Government Standing Meeting
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regarding the implementation of the detail planning of the port Group 5, emphasizing: “It is
requested in next 5 years to mobilize resources to invest, construct the deep water seaport in
Lạch Huyện - Hải Phòng belong to Port Group 1 and Ben Dinh –Vung Tau terminal in port
group 5 in Cai Mep port, to pay attention to the development of seaport together with
infrastructure investment such as connecting infrastructure, goods distribution centers,
logistics services and specific preferential policies for operation of port in convenient and
consistent manner and modern management to formulate the regional and international
centers to meet the demand of long distance sea trip of Vietnam and to attract international
and national in-transit goods”. The Prime Minster assigned the Ministry of Transport to
“Coordinate with the locality, especially the provinces, cities in the Port Group 5 to strictly
manage the land development fund for the sea port and infrastructure system connecting to
the seaport, logistics and goods distribution service centers, seaport services, harmoniously
organize the traffic in the seaport urban area, ensuring no conflicts in transportation
connection between the port and urban traffic”.
Therefore, the establishment of one logistic services center in Vung Tau is a necessary and
subjective requirement, especially for the micro-management level to promptly develop
provincial logistics services and to prioritize the development of other economic sectors, to
achieve the socio-economic development target and economic integration plan of the Province
as well as the Southern economic strategic region, and to enhance the competitiveness of
goods exporting/importing and services.
The Prime Minister issued the Decision ref 1113/QĐ-TTg dated 09/7/2013, regarding the
approval of the revised urban master plan of Phu My urban area, Ba Ria – Vung Tau by 2030.
Accordingly, Cái Mép Hạ Logistics Park has the total area of 815 ha. This is the important
basis to implement the detailed zoning planning of Cai Mep Ha Logistics Center (scale of
1/2000) under the Law on Construction ref. 50/2014/QH13 by the National Assembly and the
Decree ref. 44/2015/NĐ-CP by the Prime Minister.

In order to implement the planning and construction investment of Cai Mep Ha Logistics
Park, Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province People’s Committee/ Department of Transport has
organized the international competition on concept design for 1/2000 subdivision planning
for Cai Mep Ha Logistics Park as the basis to select the Consultant to implement the further
steps.

I.2. Legal basis
- The Construction Law No. 50/2014 / QH13 adopted by the National Assembly of the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam dated 06.18.2014, with the effective date from 01.01.2015.
- The decree No. 44/2015 / ND-CP dated 06/5/2015 of the Prime Minister regulating some
detailed contents on the construction planning.

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- The Circular No. 12/2016/TT-BXD dated June 29th, 2016 of the Ministry of Construction
on proposals and design of regional, urban and special purpose zone constructon planning.
- The Decision No. 1037 / QD-TTg dated 24/06/2014 of the Prime Minister regarding the
approval of the master plan of Vietnam seaport by 2020, with an orientations to 2030.
- The Decision No. 355 / QD-TTg dated 02/25/2013 of the Prime Minister on approving the
development strategy of Transport Vietnam until 2020 and orientations to 2030.
- The Decision No. 1113 / QD-TTg dated 09/7/2013 of the Prime Minister regarding the
approval on amendment of general plan for Phu My new urban ara, Ba Ria - Vung Tau
province to 2030.
- The Decision No. 169 / QD-TTg dated 01/22/2014 of the Prime Minister regarding the

approval on the Project of developing logistics services in the field of transport of Vietnam
by 2020 and orientations to 2030.
- The Decision No. 3327 / QD-BGTVT 29/08/2014 MOT regarding the approval on the
detailed planning of Southeastern port group (Group 5) for the period up to 2020 and
orientations to 2030.
-

The Decision No. 3304 / QD-BGVT dated 10/22/2013 of the Ministry of Transport
regarding the approval on the Project of improving management competency and
exploitation in Seaport Group 5 and in piers in the area of Cai Mep – Thi Vai.

- The Decision No. 767 / QD-UBND dated 04/4/2013 of the PPC of Ba Ria – Vung Tau
province regarding the approval on the Project of development of logistics in Ba Ria Vung Tau province in the period of 2011-2020.
- The Decision No. 1360 / QD-UBND dated 02/7/2014 of PPC on the master plan for
development of logistics sector in Ba Ria - Vung Tau for the period 2014 - 2020 and
orientations to 2030.
- Implementation arrangement of the Master Plan of logistics sector development in Ba Ria Vung Tau for the period of 2014-2020 which has been implemented by PPC in the Letter
ref. 7253 / UBND-VP dated 10/2/2014
- The Decision No. 1382 / QD-UBND dated 07/7/2014 of the PPC on approving the plan of
developing international transshipment port cluster operations in Cai Mep Thi Vai for the
period of 2013-2020.
- Implementation plan of the developing international transshipment port operations in Cai
Mep Thi Vai for the period of 2013-2020 which has been implemented by PPC in the
Official Letter No. 7252 / UBND-VP dated 10/2/2014

I.3. Reference Documents
The land use plan of the Province and land use map in the project site and its vicinity.

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- The transportation development master plan of Ba Ria- Vung Tau province.
- The master plan of industrial zones in Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu province.
- The regulation on development policies on attracting the investment on logistics in the
province.
- The preliminary topographic survey report of Cai Mep Ha Logistic park area.
- The detailed planning of development of South East seaport (Group 5) by 2020, with an
orientation by 2030.
- Logistics development plan of Ba Ria- Vung Tau for the period of 2011-2020.
- The operation development plan of international transshipment Cai Mep – Thi Vai port
cluster for the period of 2013-2020.

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II. CONDITIONS OF CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
II.1. Existing conditions and development plan of the seaports of Group 5
II.1.1. Existing conditions
South East seaport group (Group 5) including four (04) seaports: Ho Chi Minh city port, Dong
Nai port, Binh Duong port and Vung Tau port, is the biggest port group of the six groups,

accounting for 40% of total national goods carriage volume by sea.
Under the statistis data of Marine Administrations and Departments of Transport in Ho Chi
Minh city, Dong Nai province and Ba Ria- Vung Tau province. The Group 5 has 51 out out
total 104 dry cargo terminals (including general store, container and the dry bulk cargo) with
the investment ratio of 49.0%. Including:
- There are 42 out of total 92 existing dry cargo terminals (including the general wharves for
container handling) accounting for 45.7%; 5 out of 92 under construction wharves, accounting
for 5.4% and 46 out of total 92 unconstructed wharves, accounting for 50,0%.
- There are exisiting nine of out twelve functional container terminals, accounting for 75%;
one out of total 12 under-construction container terminals accounting for 8.3% and two out of
total 12 unconstructed container terminals accounting for 16.7%.
In terms of the ship scale, there are some seaports in Group 5 receiving mother-ships with
loading over 10.000TEUs, directly transporting to Europe countries, East and West of USA,
and North Europe countries without transit via Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, and
Thailand. In which, CMIT terminal in Cai Mep received the heavy lift container ship with a
deadweight tonnage of 157.000DWT and 14.000TEU.
In terms of goods volume movement through ports, in 2015, the total goods volume
movement through ports in the Group 5 is about 152,390 million tons, including 7,229 TEU
of container cargo. Dry cargo and container cargo are observed to reach high annual growth;
In the period of 2011-2015, the average growth rate of dry cargo and container cargo,
respectively, is 12.05%/year by tons and 11.49%/year by TEU. The details are shown as the
below:

Table 1: The goods volume movement throught the seaports of Group 5
Item

Unit

Dry goods

103 Tấn

33,286

34,208

30,895

33,172

39,111

Average
growth
rate
2015
(%)
47,646 7.44%

Exporting

10 Tấn

6,813

7,422

6,844

5,153

7,107

6,344 -1.41%

Importing

10 Tấn

16,265

14,660

15,642

17,395

18,422

25,559

9.46%

Domestic

10 Tấn

10,208

12,126

8,409

10,625

13,582

15,742

9.05%

Container

10 Tấn

46,275

47,683

56,102

61,671

73,187

81,738 12.05%

Year
Seria
l No.

1

2

3
3
3

3

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

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Average

growth
rate
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
(%)
4,197,228 4,315,584 5,081,132 5,342,054 6,500,804 7,228,604 11.49%
Year

Seria
l No.

Item

Unit

goods

TEUs

Exporting

103 Tons
TEUs

17,278

10 Tons
TEUs

19,553

Liquid
cargo
Exporting

3

Importing
Domestic

Importing
Domestic

28,613

20,404

21,968

24,491

31,004 12.40%

27,908

9,444

9,647

11,024

TEUs

693,674

694,493

781,506

103 Tons

22,961

22,263

21,997

21,396

21,529

103 Tons

9.49%

32,141 10.45%

12,327

16,665

18,593 14.51%

845,661 1,250,306 1,464,287 16.12%
23,006

0.04%

6,133

4,404

6,252

5,841

5,551

3,249 -11.93%

3

6,974

7,706

6,305

5,490

6,313

8,765

4.68%

3

9,854

10,154

9,441

10,065

9,665

10,993

2.21%

3

102,522

104,154

108,994

116,240

133,827

152,390

8.25%

10 Tons
10 Tons
TEUs

Exporting

4

10 Tons

10 Tons

Total

24,853

1,693,220 1,814,440 2,023,708 2,220,441 2,656,494 2,915,327 11.48%

3

Domestic

23,109

1,810,334 1,806,650 2,275,918 2,275,952 2,594,004 2,848,990

3

Importing

17,631

4,197,228 4,315,584 5,081,132 5,342,054 6,500,804 7,228,604 11.49%

3

30,224

29,458

36,204

35,847

41,272

40,597

6.08%

3

42,792

42,770

43,915

47,376

52,643

66,465

9.21%

3

29,507

31,926

28,874

33,017

39,912

45,328

8.97%

10 Tons
10 Tons
10 Tons

Source: Vietnam Marine Administration, Dong Nai Marine Administration, Bình Dương Port

Table 2: Volume of container cargo carriage movement through ports in Group 5
Ser
ial
No.

Items

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Average

Growth
Rate
2011-2015

4,105

6,010

7,585

7.,847

9,285

11,436

22.74%

489

689

963

946

1,154

1,356

22.64%

2,201

3,414

3,904

4,112

4,910

6,345

23.58%

257

366

482

457

552

701

22.26%

1,881

2,567

3,680

3,734

4,364

4,969

21.44%

223

315

482

489

601

641

23.51%

23

30

1

0

11

122

39.90%

9

8

0

0

1

15

9.69%

41,638

40,918

48,059

53,361

61,098

65,191

9.38%

Year

Unit
3

Bà Rịa - Vũng
Tàu

Exporting
1
Importing

Domestic

2

Hồ Chí Minh
City

10

Tons
103
Teu
103
Tons
103
Teu
103
Tons
103
Teu
103
Tons
103
Teu
103
Tons

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Ser
ial
No.

Items

CONCEPT DESIGN REPORT

Year

Unit

Average
Growth
Rate
2011-2015

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

3,639

3,565

4,072

4,356

5,088

5,395

8.19%

15,051

14,171

19,199

20,741

23,703

24,659

10.38%

1,550

1,434

1,794

1,819

2,042

2,148

6.74%

17,654

17,803

18,205

20,757

23,544

27,172

9.01%

1,468

1,495

1,531

1,731

2,056

2,275

9.15%

8,933

8,944

10,655

11,863

13,850

13,360

8.38%

621

635

747

805

990

972

9.38%

0

0

1

109

1,802

3,094

1326.85%

0

0

0

11

180

309

988.33%

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

109

1,802

3,094

1326.85%

0

0

0

11

180

309

988.33%

532

755

457

355

1,002

2,017

30.55%

70

62

46

30

79

168

19.33%

26

46

6

0

0

0

4

6

1

0

0

0

17

35

83

0

0

0

2

5

11

0

0

0

489

674

368

355

1.002

2.017

3

Exporting

Importing

Domestic

Đồng Nai

Exporting

3
Importing

Domestic

Bình Dương

Exporting

4

Importing

Domestic

10
Teu
103
Tons
103
Teu
103
Tons
103
Teu
103
Tons
103
Teu
103
Tons
103
Teu
103
Tons

103
Teu
103
Tons
103
Teu
103
Tons
103
Teu
103
Tons
103
Teu
103
Tons
103
Teu
103
Tons

103
Teu
103
Tons

32.77%

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ial
No.

Items

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Year

Unit
2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Average
Growth
Rate

2011-2015

3

10
Teu
103
Tons
103
Teu
103
Tons
103
Teu
103
Tons
103
Teu
103
Tons
103
Teu

Total

Exporting
5

Importing

Domestic

64

51

34

30

79

168

21.44%

46,275

47,683

56,102

61,671

73,187

81,738

12.05%

4,197

4,316

5,081

5,342

6,501

7,229

11.49%

17,278

17,631

23,109

24,853

28,613

31,004

12.40%

1,810

1,807

2,276

2,276

2,594

2,849

9.49%

19,553

20,404

21,968

24,491

27,908

32,141

10.45%

1,693

1,814

2,024

2,220

2,656

2,915

11.48%

9,444

9,647

11,024

12,327

16,665

18,593

14.51%

694

694

782

846

1,250

1,464

16.12%

As referred from the dry cargo and container cargo movement through the seaports of Group 5
compared to the national volume in recent years, seaports in Group 5 account for 42% by
Tons and 63% by TEUs is the highest ratio amongs 6 groups of ports. The details are shown
as below:

Table 3: Comparision of volume of dry cargo and container cargo carriage movement
through the seaports of Group 5 compared to the national volume
Se
ria
l
No
.
1

Year
Item

Seaports
in Group 5

Unit

Average
growth
rate
(%)

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

79,561

81,891

86,997

94,844

112,298

129,383

10.2%

4,197,22 4,315,58 5,081,13 5,342,05
6,500,804 7,228,604
8
4
2
4

11.5%

10
Tons

178,046

312,253

11.9%

TEUs

6,521,00 7,210,18 8,015,99 8,626,02 10,398,24 11,527,19
4
0
6
6
0
7

12.1%

103
Tons
TEUs
3

Nation’s
2
seaport
Seaports
3 in Group
5/Nation

187,385

203,922

237,586

272,977

%
Tons

44.7%

43.7%

42.7%

39.9%

41.1%

41.4%

% TEU

64.4%

59.9%

63.4%

61.9%

62.5%

62.7%

Source: Vietnam Marine Administration, Dong Nai Marine Administration, Bình Dương Port

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II.1.2. Development planning
The development planning of the seaports in Group 5 has been approved by the Ministry of
Transport in the Decision ref. 3327/QĐ-BGTVT dated 24/8/2014. Accordingly, the main
contents on the development of seaports in Group 5 are presented as below:
1. Objectives and development orientation
a) General Objectives
- Appropriately arrange the Group 5 seaports with an aim to developing potentials; also
facilitate a balanced and consistent development of seaports and infrastructure related to the
attractive area of the ports, strengthening the industrial and services as the development
motive and ensure national defense and security.
- Relocate the ports along Sai Gon river and Ba Son Ship Building factory to reduce the traffic
volume, traffic jam in the center of Ho Chi Minh city.
- Facilitate the development of industrial parks, export-processing zones, and create the
conditions for the urban development to accelerate industrialization and modernization of the
Southeast region by 2020 with orientation to 2030.
- Establish and develop the international port gateways, modern regional terminals to meet the
development trend of international and Vietnam marine transportation, attracting parts of
transshipped cargo in the region.
b) Specific objectives
- Ensure the capacity of goods movement as expected for each planning period: approximately
238 to 247.8 million tons by 2020; approximately 294.1 to 316.4 million tons by 2025;
approximately 358.5 to 411.5 million tons by 2030. In which, the container cargo is about
9.72 to 10.54 million TEUs by 2020; and approximately 13.23 to 14.99 million TEUs by
2025; approximately 17.41 to 20.45 million TEUs by 2030.
- Expected movement of international passengers by sea for each planning period:
approximately 187.4 thousand to 271.1 thousand passengers by 2020; about 240.0 thousand to
437.4 thousand by 2025; about 307.4 thousand to 705.8 thousand passengers by 2030.
- Receive the the followings ships such as general ships, bulk ships with a deadweight tonnage
from 10,000 tons to over 100,000 tons, container ship with the a deadweight tonnage from
10,000 tons to over 100,000 tons, crude oil tankers with a deadweight tonnage upto 300,000

tons, oil tankers with a deadweight tonnage from 10,000 tons to 50,000 tons, passenger ships
with the loading capacity up to 6,000 passengers.
2. Planning content
a) The detailed planning of ports in the Groups
There are 4 seaports in Group 5 including Ho Chi Minh seaport, Dong Nai seaport, Vung Tau
seaports (including Con Dao port) and Binh Duong seaport.
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- Ho Chi Minh seaport: is the national central multipurpose terminal, regional focal point
(type I), comprising the main terminals: terminal on Sai Gon river, Cat Lai terminal on Dong
Nai river, terminal on Nha Be river, Hiep Phuong terminal on Soai Rap.
Estimated capacity of goods movement: approximately 115,7 - 116,3 million tons/year as
expected by 2020; approximately 127,4 - 130,7 million tons/year by 2025; about 144,1 - 156,3
million tons/year by 2030. In which, by 2015 container loading capacity of 4,78 - 4,88 million
TEUs/year, 5.37 - 5.50 million TEUs/year by 2020, 6.118- 6.487 million TEUs/year by 2025,
and 7.336 - 8.092 TEUs/year by 2030.
Estimated movement of international passengers by sea is approximately 64,5 - 93,3 million
arrivals/year by 2020 ; 82,6 - 150,6 million arrivals/year by 2025; 105,9 - 243,0 million
arrivals/year by 2030.
The detailed planning for the main terminals is presented as below:
+ Terminals along Sai Gon river include 11 terminals/docks for ships with a deadweight
tonnage from 20,000 to 30.000 tons. These terminals shall be relocated and repurposed under
the Decision ref. 791/QĐ-TTg dated August 12th, 2005 by the Prime Minister, part of Khanh
Hoi terminal shall be converted into an inland passenger terminal and marine service center.

Unrelocated wharves shall be upgraded without expansion.
+ Cat Lai Terminals (Dong Nai river): includes 9 terminals/docks for the ships with a
deadweight tonnage upto 30,000 tons. There are currently the primary container terminals of
Ho Chi Minh seaport.
+ Nhà Bè Terminals (Nhà Bè river): includes 10 terminals/docks for the ships with a
deadweight tonnage upto 20,000 – 30,000 tons. In accordance with the planning, terminals on
Nha Be river shall be upgraded (not expanđe) to serve the ships with a deadweight tonnage
upto 30.000 tons. A new passenger terminal for the ships with capacity of 50.000 GRT in Phú
Thuận (downstream of Phú Mỹ bridge) shall be constructed under the planning.
+ Hiep Phuoc Terminals (Soài Rạp river): are the primary terminals of Ho Chi Minh seaport
in future, mainly serving the general goods and containers for the ships with a deadweight
tonnage upto 50,000 tons and container ship with capacity of 4,000 TEUs. There are some
dedicated terminals for the ships with with a deadweight tonnage from 20,000 to 30,000 tons
serving directly the adjacent industrial facilities.
+ Cần Giuộc - Long An Terminals (on Soài Rạp river) are multi-purpose terminals for the
ships with a deadweight tonnage from 20,000 tons to 50,000 tons, and 70,000 tons partially
loaded going through Soai Rap sanctuary, satellite terminal of center ports in the Ho Chi Minh
area.
- Đồng Nai Seaport: is the national and central multipurpose terminal (Class I), which
comprises: Long Binh Tan terminals (Dong Nai river); Phu Huu terminals (segnment of Dong
Nai river and Long Tau – Nha Be river), Ong Keo terminals (Long Tau river and Dong Tranh
river); Go Dau terminals, Phuoc An terminals (Thi Vai river).
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Estimated capacity of goods movement: approximately 19,7 - 21,0 million tons/year by 2020;
32,4 - 35,1 million tons/year by 2025; 51,5 - 58,5 million tons/year by 2030. Estimated
capacity of container movement of 0,69 - 0,77 million TEUs/year by 2020, 1,38 - 1,57 million
TEUs/year by 2025, and 2,41 - 2,83 million TEUs/year by 2030.
The detailed planning of some primary terminals as below:
+ Phuoc An, Go Dau terminals (on Thị Vải river): are the primary terminals of Đồng Nai
seaport for general ships and container ships with a deadweight tonnage of 60,000 tons
(Phước An) and 30,000 tons (Gò Dầu) and some dedicated terminals for ships with a
deadweight tonnage of 6,500 – 12,000 tons directly serving the adjacent industrial area.
+ Phú Hữu, Nhơn Trạch, Ông Kèo Terminals (Đồng Nai, Nhà Bè, Lòng Tàu rivers): including
dedicated terminals to receive the ships a deadweight tonnage from 10.000 tons to 30.000 ton
and the multipurpose terminals for the ships with a deadweight tonnage upto 30,000 tons
serving the factories, industrial facilities in the region.
+ Terminals along Đồng Nai river: including the terminals for the general ships, bulk
container ships with a deadweight tonnage upto 5,000 tons and dedicated ports for the ships
with a deadweight tonnage of 1,000 tons in Long Bình Tân area (Đồng Nai).
- Binh Duong seaport: the local multipurpose terminal (Class II), on Dong Nai river, which
comprises of 01 terminal for the ship with a deadweight tonnage upto 5,000 tons, and
container handling.
Estimated capacity of goods movement: approximately 0.99 – 1.21 million tons/year by 2020
and remains unchanged during 2025 - 2030
- Vung Tau seaport: is the national multipurpose terminal, international gateway (Class IA),
plays a role as an international transshipment port including the main dedicated terminals: Go
Dau, Tac Ca Trung terminals, Phu My, My Xuan terminals, Cai Mep, Sao Mai – Ben Dinh
terminals; Long Son terminal, Dinh river terminal and Con Dao terminal.
Estimated capacity of goods movement: about 101.6 – 109.2 million tons/year by 2020; about
133.2 – 149.4 million tons/year by 2025, about 161.8-195.5 million tons/year by 2030 as
expected. Estimated capacity of container volume movement: approximately1.51 – 1.63
million TEU/year by 2015, approximately 3.58 – 4.17 million TEU/year by 2020,
approximately 5.64 – 6.83 million TEU/year by 2025, and approximately 7.58 – 9.42 million

TEU/year by 2030.
Estimated movement of international passengers by sea is 122.9 – 177.7 thousand arrivals/
year by 2020, 157,4 - 286,8 thousand arrivals/ year by 2025, 201.6 – 462.8 thousand
arrivals/year by 2030.
The detailed planning of the primary terminals is shown as below:
+ Gò Dầu, Tắc Cá Trung terminals for the general ships and container ships, capable of
receiving ship with a deadweight tonnage of 30.000 tons.
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+ Phú Mỹ, Mỹ Xuân terminals (Thị Vải river): mainly the general ships with the capacity from
50.000 to 80.000 tons, container ships with the capacity from 4.000 TEU. Contiously study
the possibility of improvement and expansion of navigation channel to receive the ships with
capacity of 60.000 - 120.000 tons (4.000 - 8.000 TEUs) in Phu My and ships up to 60,000
tons in My Xuan, and functional wharfs serving industrial and services units.
+ Cái Mép, Sao Mai - Bến Đình terminals are primary terminals of the port which handle
container exported/imported of long shipping route and international container transshipment.
Cái Mép terminals are capable of receiving ships with a deadweight tonnage of 80,000 –
100,000 tons (6,000 – 8,000 TEUs). Shipping lanes shall be upgraded to receive ships with a
deadweight tonnage of over 100,000 tons in Cai Mep. Sao Mai – Ben Dinh terminals are
capable to receive the container ships with a deadweight tonnage from 80,000 tons (loading
capacity of 6.000 TEUs) to 100,000 tons and international passenger ships with capacity of
100.000 GRT.
+ Long Sơn terminal is dedicated to the oil refinery complex with terminals of receiving crude
oil ship of 300,000 tons, and the ship with a deadweight tonnage of 30,000-50,000 tons to

import other materials and export products. The South East coast area shall be used to develop
the multipurpose terminals serving long-term development of the region.
+ Vũng Tàu - Sông Dinh terminals: capable of receiving the general ship with a deadweight
tonnage of 10,000 tons (Đông Xuyên industrial park).
+ Côn Đảo terminals have the main functions as the general and passenger terminals for Con
Dao which might receive the ships with the capacity of 2.000 - 5.000 tons. In addition, the
terminals are for marine services and petroleum for the ships with a deadweight tonnage upto
10,000 tons.
b) Improvement and upgradation of navigation channel plan
- Sài Gòn - Vũng Tàu navigation channel: to improve some sharp curves and maintain the
depth and marine signaling system for Long Tau navigation channel for the ships with
capacity of 30,000 tons ultilizing the tidal current of day and night time.
- Soài Rạp navigation channel has been dredged at the depth of -9,5 m to receive the ships
with a deadweight tonnage upto 30,000 fully loaded tons and 50,000 tons partially loaded. In
the next period, it is required to monitor the conditions and evaluate the result of dredging at
the depth of -9.5m to consider for the further dredging to serve the ship with a deadweight
tonnage upto 50,000 fully loading tons and the ship with loading over 50,000 tons partially
loaded.
- Navigation channel of Đồng Nai river: maintain the existing operation for the navigation
channel from Mui Den Do intersection to Dong Nai port with the length of 36km.
- Cái Mép - Thị Vải navigation channel: study to determine the possible biggest size of ships
to arrive/depart from the terminals in coming stage: the ships with a deadweight tonnage from
80,000 tons to over 100,000 tons and container ships with a deadweight tonnage from 6,000 to
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over 8,000 TEUs in Cai Mep port; the ships with a deadweight tonnage from 60,000 tons to
100,000 tons and container ships with a deadweight tonnage from 4,000 to over 8,000 TEUs
in Phu My (Thi Vai); the ships with a deadweight tonnage 60,000 tons in Phuoc An, My
Xuan; and the ships with a deadweight tonnage upto 30,000 tons in Go Dau.
- Navigation channel of Dinh river: maintain the stable operation conditions of the ships with
a deadweight tonnage upto 10,000 tons.

II.2. The current conditions and development plan of ICD, distribution center in South
East region.
II.2.1. Current conditions
Currently, in South East region there are 12 ICDs connecting with Vung Tau and Ho Chi
Minh seaports, including 7 ICDs in Ho Chi Minh city (Phước Long, Phúc Long, Transimex,
Tây Nam, Tân Tạo, Sotrans và Tracomeco), 3 ICDs in Đồng Nai (Biên Hịa, Tân Cảng - Long
Bình, ICD Đồng Nai) and 2 ICDs in Bình Dương (Tân cảng - Sóng Thần, TBS Tân Vạn).
Recently, ICDs play an important role in supporting seaport system of Group 5; however,
almost ICDs are located in Ho Chi Minh seaport.
Cargo transported to ICDs in the region is mainly by roads (accounting fro 65-70%), inland
waterway accounting for 30-35% effectively support the freight transportation by seaport,
reducing the congestion in the seaports and urban traffic jam in Ho Chi Minh city. It is
estimated that 30-40% the exporting/importing container cargo which have been carried out
the custom procedures in ICDs in the region.
Total area of ICDs is approximately 300 ha, in which the smallest is Tan Tao ICD (1.3ha) and
the biggest is Tan Cang – Long Binh ICD (105 ha and might be expanded up to 300ha).
The container cargo carriage volume via the seaports in Group 5 accounts for over 60% of
total national volume, which is the key factor to promote the establishment and development
of ICDs in the South Easst region.

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Figure 1: Location of ICDs in South East region
II.2.2. Development planning
Under the Detailed Plan of the ICDs by 2020 with orientation to 2030 by Vietnam Marine
Administration, there shall be 10 ICDs in the South East region as below:
1) Ho Chi Minh North East Economic Region
In the development planning of 8 ICDs, there shall be the new construction of Long Binh ICD
in Long Binh ward, District 9, Ho Chi Minh city and An Son ICD in An Son commune,
Thuan An city, Binh Duong province and it is planned to relocate the ICDs in Truong Tho
Thu Duc (associated with inland Truong Tho ICD) including Phuoc Long, Phuc Long,
Transimex, Sotrans, Tay Nam (Tanamexco) ICDs.
- An Son ICD (new construction): in An Son Commune, Thuan An Town, Binh Duong
province
- Long Bình ICD (new construction) in Long Binh ward, District 9, Ho Chi Minh city.
- Tân Cảng - Long Bình ICD: in KP7 area, Biên Hòa city, Đồng Nai province.
- Tín Nghĩa ICD: in Long Bình Tân ward, Biên Hịa city, Đồng Nai province.
- Tân Cảng - Sóng Thần ICD: in Bình Hịa commune, Thuận An city, Bình Dương province.
- TBS Tân Vạn ICD: Bình Thắng commune, Dĩ An district, Bình Dương province.

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- Tân cảng Nhơn Trạch ICD: in Phú Thạnh commune, Nhơn Trạch district, Đồng Nai
province.
- Chơn Thành ICD (new construction): in Thành Tâm commune, Chơn Thành district, Bình
Phước province.
2) Ho Chi Minh South West Economic Zone:
In accordance with the planning, there are 2 ICDs shall be newly constructed in Long An
Province and Tay Ninh province.
- Bến Lức ICD (new construction): in Bến Lức district, Long An province, on Hồ Chí Minh
RR4.
- Thanh Phước ICD (new construction): in Thanh Phước commune, Gò Dầu district, Tây Ninh
province.

Figure 2: Location of ICDs which shall be newly constructed or expanded in South East region
In accordance with the planning, there are distribution centers as below:

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a. Mien Dong transit general warehouse
Mien Dong transit general warehouse is located in Trang Bom district, Dong Nai province
with total area of around 1400 ha. The general warehouse is oriented for the development as
“one of the chain link” of the supplying and distribution logistic chain to meet the cargo
transportation demand in the region. The objectives of Mien Dong transit general warehouse

are to meet freight transportation demand from/to the internal region in the optimum manner
and suitable with the current and future regional transportation conditions and socio-economic
conditions, to facilitate production of industrial parks as well as the internal and inter-regional
business and trading, contributing to socio-economic development of of Southern economic
region as well as the nation”.

Figure 3: Layout of Mien Dong transit general warehouse
b. Phuoc An port logistic service area
Under the decision ref. 3641/QĐ-UBND dated 27/09/2010 by Nhon Trach district Peoples’
Committee regarding the approval of the detailed planning on the scale of 1/500 of Phuoc An
port logistics service area with total area of 555.24ha, 3 km far from Nhon Trach new urban
area towards South East direction, 4.5km far from the National Highway 51 along the planned
inter-regional expressway, 0.3km from HL towards South East direction.
Phuoc An port logistic service area was developed with an aim to receiving and distributing
the commodity to ports in the region. This logistic service area is under Phuoc An port project,
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connecting to Phuoc An port and port logistics service area, invested by Phuoc An port
operating Petroleum Investment Jsc. However, this project has not yet started for construction.
c. Logistics Service Area in Hiệp Phước
Under Ho Chi Minh city planning, Hiep Phuoc IP – Phase 3 shall be arranged in Logistic
Service area with its main functions of warehousing, freight forwarder, handling, marine
supplying for the ports in the industrial park, especially Hiep Phuoc port with total length of 5
km and some industrial parks in Tien Giang and Long An provinces.

Under the planning, the logistics service area has around 392.83 ha, including: Industrial and
logistics land: 238.35 ha; Service operation center: 20.10 ha; Infrastructure connection point:
9 ha; Green trees- surface water: 71,91 ha and land for transportation: 53,53ha.
The construction of Logistic service area is under the planning to improve the operation
effectivenss of Hiep Phuoc port.
d. Development planning of Logistic Services area in Ba Ria Vung Tau
Currently, there is no survey, statistics and overall evaluation on logistic sector of the
province. There are several logistics projects with small area of 40-60 hecta which have been
proposed by the investors for the development such as:
- Cái Mép ICD (Investor is Vietnam port development consulting investment JSC): with total
area of around 40ha, which has been considered as Cai Mep container receiving and
distribution center. Its location is next to the Cai Mep IP, and mainly bordered to Rach Ong.
- Inland waterway port (Investor is Ba Ria- Vung Tau urban development and Construction
Company): has total area of around 40ha. It might receive or distribute the commodities by
waterway from regions to seaports. The land area is crossing Rach Ong and located in
opposite to Cai Mep ICD area.
- Logistics services area in Sao Mai - Bến Đình: has total area of around 96ha, is the logistics
service for Vung Tau international container port.
- Logistic service area of My Xuan international general port (Investor is Forrmosa
international development company): has total area of around 91.11ha which is planned to
receive and distribute the commodities for My Xuan International General port and
surrounding ports in the region.
-Cái Mép Hạ Logistics Center: is the studying are in this document. This center has total area
of 580ha in Tan Thanh district, Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.

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II.3. Natural conditions of the planning area
II.3.1. Topographical conditions
The main topographic type of the surveying area is marshy, surrounding by rivers, channels,
aquatic product ponds and wild vegetation grows on land. Currently, there is no permanent
structure and residential houses in the site.
Underwater topographic conditions cover the survey area of Tac Lon river, Ong Channel, Mo
Nhat river, Ca Loc river.
Inland topographic conditions are quite flat with the elevation level ranging from 0.0m ÷ +1.0
m (Hon Dau datum). The onshore topographic conditions are quite flat with the elevation
ranging from 0.0m ÷ +1.0 m (Hon Dau datum). The underwater topographic conditions in Tac
Lon river, Mo Nhat river has the depth ranging from -9.0m ÷ -11.0 m (Hon Dau datum) and
the depth of -5.0m with the 40m distance far fom the bank and the depth of -10m with the
80m distance far from the bank. In Ông channel, the under-water topographic condition is
lower with the depth of -5.0m (near Mo Nhat river and sea), the topo condition in the central
part of Ong channel is quite shallow with the popular depth of -3.5m (Hòn Dấu datum).

Figure 4: Topographic conditions of Cái Mép Hạ
logistics center

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT – BA RIA – VUNG TAU PROVINCE
CÁI MÉP HẠ LOGISTICS CENTER

CONCEPT DESIGN REPORT

II.3.2. Geological Conditions
According to geological survey report prepared by Portcoast on June 2016 for Cai Mep Ha
logistics center, soil strata in the study area consist of major stratum from top down as
follows.
- Layer 1a: (CH/MH) Melting clay mixed with organic materials and shells, blackish grey
color. Layer thickness varies from 5.5m at LK03, LK05, LK06 to 19.0m at LK04.
- Layer 1b: (CH) Melting and blackish grey clay with thickness varying from 1.85m at LK04
to 15.35m at LK06.
- Layer LC: (CL) Plastic sandy clay lens with color of reddy brown, whitish grey. The lens
appears below layer 1b at boredhole LK05 at depth of 17.8m. Borehole depth has not yet gone
through the whole layer of the lens.
- Layer 2a: (SM/SC) Dustty sand/clayey sand, greyish white, yellowish grey, incoherent
structure. This layer appears at borehole LK01 at depth of 15.4m. Borehole depth has not gone
through this layer.
- Layer 2b: (SC) Clayey sand, blackish grey, medium dense structure. This layer appears at
borehole LK03 at depth of 19.3m. Borehole depth has not gone through this layer.

II.3.3. Meteorological conditions
- Wind: The construction area is located in the monsoon tropical region. In the South of
Vietnam, there are 2 dominant wind seasons: rainy season is from May to Octotober and dry
season is from November to April.
+ Dry season: Wind from the East to the Northeast with velocity of 1÷5 m/s.
+ Rainy season: Wind from the West to the Southwest with velocity of 5÷10 m/s.
- Temperature and air humidity
+ Average annual air temperature is 26.70C, maximum temperature is 36.20C, minimum
temperature is 15.00C. Difference between annual temperature range at day and night is 21.2
0
C, average difference in the hottest month (month V: 28.50C) and in the coldest month (Jan:
250C) is approx. 3.50C.
+ Annual average air temperature is 81.8%, air humidity varies by seasons. In rainy season,

average humidity is 84.0%, sometimes reaches to 86.1% (September). In dry season, average
humidity is 78.7%, sometimes reduces to only around 78.1% (April). The months of highest
average humidity are from July to October and the months of lowest average humidity are
from January to April. In a day, air humidity varies in inverse ratio to temperature, lowest
humidity at 13:00-14:00pm, highest humidity at 7:00am.
- Rain intensity: Port construction area is located in monsoon tropical region. Climate feature
can be divided into rainy season and dry season. Rainy season lasts from May to October and
rainfall in this period makes up for most of total annual rainfall.
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