HANOI, AUGUST 17 (Engineering Daily) -- On 17 August, Mr. Pham Van Nam, Project Manager of Quang Binh Industrial Zone PMU said Quang Binh province is calling to invest and implement the Hon La Seaport Phase 2 project (Hon La Industrial Zone).
According Mr. Nam, Hon La Seaport Phase 1 has exceeded initial design capacity recently, especially in 2015, the goods occurred of nearly 1.5 million tons while seaport designed capacity of only 1.2 million tons. Thus, the investment to upgrade and expand Hon La Seaport Phase 2 is necessary. Hon La Seaport Phase 2 is estimated to upgrade the capacity to 5 million tons more, be able to pick size vessel of 50,000 tons of goods.
“Currently, the investment and construction of road linking Hon Co island and Hon La has been implemented to create a closed wind bay with depth of 8m~14m, therefore the investor only allocate about VND 300~400 billion more to buy operation and construction equipment (small and medium size), then the seaport can be taken into operation in efficiency”, Mr. Nam said.
Mr. Nam also emphasized that Hon La Seaport is in Hon La Industrial Zone, so the investor who implement the Phase 2 project will get preferential mechanisms of Industrial Zone with the highest preferential level of land use tax (11 year tax exemption), corporation income tax and other preferences as per Investment Law as well as Quang Binh province’s specific concessionary policies.
“The investment of Hon La Seaport will certainly be help with the lowest cost since the seaport will be a place to transfer goods from Thailand, Lao, Myanmar in the shortest distance (Highway 12 linking the Border gate Cha Lo to Hon La Seaport), the most efficient and lowest cost compared to other routes connecting the Border gate to other seaports in the region”, Mr. Nam shared.
