Minister of Transport met with People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City

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On September 23, 2011, at the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, the delegation from the Ministry of Transport led by Minister Dinh La Thang, member of Party Central Committee, together with Deputy Minister Ngo Thinh Duc, Pham Quy Tieu, Truong Tan Vien and leaders of Departments under the Ministry of Transport, had a meeting with leaders of People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City. From People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, there were Mr. Le Hoang Quan, member of Party Central Committee and Chairman of the People’s Committee, Mr. Nguyen Huu Tin, Vice Chairman of People’s Committee, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Tai, former Chairman of People’s Committee, and leaders of Departments and Authorities of Districts in Ho Chi Minh City.

Attending the meeting and being on behalf of the Vietnam Maritime Administration, Deputy Director of the Administration Do Hong Thai reported a number of issues related to port and maritime industry. He also made some suggestions such as: quickly constructing access roads to the ports of the city, especially the inter-provincial Road 25B to Tan Cang Cat Lai and 1.8 km long road linking to Saigon Hiep Phuoc Port; promptly completing procedures of ground handing over to Saigon Port (phase 2) and Tan Thuan Dong Port in Hiep Phuoc area; hastening the progress of dredging of Soai Rap channel to the depth of -9.5 m, this is the project of experimental dredging in different depth levels, it is required to keep on using results studied by Portcoast to ensure the quality of the project; speeding up the approval process of master plan of ports relocation as a basis for enterprises to be relocated and carry out projects to get money for implementing relocation plan.

At the meeting, Minister Dinh La Thang said that Ho Chi Minh City needs to have a breakthrough structure to construct an overall transport system of road, waterway and airway in the city. The City should have its own way to develop, not necessarily to follow the same way of other regions in the country.

Mr. Pham Anh Tuan, Deputy Director of Portcoast Consultant Corporation attended the meeting.

Below are some pictures of the meeting.