{"id":1992,"date":"2013-08-04T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2013\/08\/04\/vietnam-readies-port-leases\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:35:00","slug":"vietnam-readies-port-leases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/asia\/vietnam-readies-port-leases\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam readies port leases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vietnam Maritime Administration is currently looking for qualified operators for both the Cai Mep international and Thi Vai general cargo terminals.<\/p>\n<p>Bidding for the two ports will take place in the third or fourth quarter of this year, the reports add.<\/p>\n<p>The fixed annual package price is $219.5m for Cai Mep and $130.5m for the Thi Vai terminals respectively, according to a notice on the Vietnam Ports Association website.<\/p>\n<p>Investors would have to make another payment besides the fixed price. This payment would change every year, depending on the pre-tax profits of the investors, according to a press report of the administration\u2019s job description.<\/p>\n<p>The Cai Mep terminal consists of two piers of 600 metres in length. It can handle vessels of up to 100,000 dwt and has an annual capacity of around 700,000 teu. Thi Vai, also two piers, a capacity of 1.6m-2m tons per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam looks set to lease the Cai Mep-Thi Vai international port in Ba RiaVung Tau province for 30 years, official sources have reported. Cai Mep-Thi Vai is the first State-built seaport to be leased, as the country tries to kickstart development of the problem-laden sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1994,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions\/1994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}