With the goal "by 2025, building and developing Hai Phong city into a national logistics service center" and "by 2030, Hai Phong city will become a modern international logistics service center by road, airway, highway, and express train. To win those goals, the city has spared no efforts to strengthen investment attraction, trade promotion, form specialized logistics service chains with high added costs and regional links, contributing to economic development towards greening and sustainability.
In 2023, the city's traditional, advantageous service industries such as seaport services and logistics services have developed strongly. This year, the city continues to accelerate the progress of the investment project to build container terminals No. 3, 4, 5, and 6 of the Hai Phong International Gateway Port, and at the same time promote investment attraction to build a national logistics zone and build the next wharves. In particular, the Xuan Cau Free Trade Zone project, which started construction in May this year, is considered an important boost for the development of seaport and logistics services.
Associate Professor Dr. Dan Duc Hiep expressed that “besides the achieved results, Hai Phong logistics activities still have limitations such as the majority of goods output through Hai Phong port system is transported by road, while transport of goods by railway and inland waterway is still weak. To exploit the advantages of convenient traffic connections both by waterway and road, many businesses are now providing stable, sustainable, environmentally and socially friendly logistics solutions”.
According to the assessment of many logistics companies operating in Hair Phong, seaport infrastructure has been upgraded and invested in and built in a synchronous and modern manner, in accordance with regional and international shipping development trends; The improved and more synchronized transportation system has promoted its role as a deep-water port, an international and regional transit gateway port. The city is accelerating the completion of construction investment procedures and starting construction of the next wharves, contributing to turning Hai Phong into a large and modern economic and service center, an economic key of the country.