On July 4, 2021 at the Headquarters of the Government Office, Mr. Le Van Thanh – Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Appraisal Council chaired a meeting to appraise the Inland Waterway Infrastructure Planning period. 2021-2030, vision to 2050. Participating in the meeting were: Deputy Minister of Transport Le Anh Tuan, representatives of the Council’s standing agency, leaders of the Department of Planning and Investment, Department of Inland Waterways Vietnamese localities, reviewers and members of the appraisal council according to Decision No. 2082/QD-TTg dated December 15, 2020 of the Prime Minister and representatives of the planning consulting unit (joint venture TEDI – TEDIWECCO – CCTDI).
Mr. Le Anh Tuan – Deputy Minister of Transport reported to the Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Appraisal Council and members of the appraisal council about the process of organizing the implementation of the master plan, the results of receiving and explaining the opinions of 55 provinces/cities, 20 ministries and branches, Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee and a number of professional associations, members of the appraisal council.
The Inland Waterway Infrastructure Planning is made based on the orientation of the 10-year socio-economic development strategy 2021-2030 approved at the 13th Party Congress with the goal of reducing logistics costs, improve the quality of transport services, meet the demand for freight transport according to the forecast and general development scenario of the entire transportation industry, specifically:
- Focusing on prioritizing solving bottlenecks in order to open the route, complete the vital transport corridors, which are vital to connecting localities, regions and regions;
- Invest in building, renovating and upgrading waterway transport routes with high connectivity and pervasiveness, especially for transport routes directly connected to seaports and container transport routes;
- Invest in technology application, modernize the management system to optimize the efficiency of exploitation of transport routes operating on the basis of existing infrastructure, with priority given to container transport routes. .
Appraisal council members voted with 23/27 votes to approve, 4/27 votes to approve with amendments.
Mr. Le Van Thanh – Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Appraisal Council delivered a speech at the conclusion of the meeting, noting the efforts of agencies and units to complete the planning, and also pointed out the contents that need to be supplemented and adjusted to make the plan highly implementable, especially about solutions that must be breakthrough, creative, investment decentralization for localities while the state budget situation is still difficult, it is necessary to strongly attract potential resources of the non-state economic sector, strongly socialize in public management, investment and exploitation of inland waterway infrastructure systems.
Based on the conclusions of the Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Appraisal Council Le Van Thanh and the comments of the members of the appraisal council, the Vietnam Inland Waterway Administration is urgently directing the planning consultants seriously absorb and expeditiously complete the planning documents to submit to the Prime Minister for approval in July 2021.
Some pictures at the meeting: