Overcoming difficulties, promoting potentials and strengths
In 2022, import and export continues to be a bright spot in the economic picture of Binh Duong. In just 10 months, the province's export turnover reached more than 29 billion USD, imports reached more than 21 billion USD, maintaining a trade surplus of 8 billion USD.
Binh Duong is building a modern logistics infrastructure network.
Binh Duong is located on the key traffic axis from Ho Chi Minh City. HCM to the Central Highlands and to Cambodia via Hoa Lu (Binh Phuoc), Moc Bai (Tay Ninh) border gates; From Binh Duong, it is also easy to return to the Mekong Delta provinces through Ho Chi Minh Road N2 branch, Ring Road 3, Ring Road 4.
Thanks to the synchronous transport infrastructure system, Binh Duong has easy access to major transport centers both by road and water, rail and air.
Along with that, the development rate of the trade and service industry is increasing, so logistics service enterprises in Binh Duong province are also growing quite fast in quantity and quality.
Nearly 20 years ago, in the flow of investment capital, the logistics sector in Binh Duong also developed breakthroughly with many large investment projects such as Mapletree Group from Singapore.
This group has put into operation Mapletree logistics area in Binh Duong Industrial - Service - Urban Complex with a scale of 68ha and an investment capital of 110 million USD.
Next is Schenker Vietnam Company, part of DB Schenker Group of Germany, which has put the logistics center with an investment of 5.5 million USD in Di An City into operation.
YCH - Protrade Logistics Center (YCH-Protrade DistriPark) in Thuan An City was jointly invested by YCH Group (Singapore) and Binh Duong Manufacturing - Import Export Company (Protrade) at the end of 2010 with a scale built on an area of 6.9ha, total investment capital of 14 million USD ...
Overcoming difficulties and existing infrastructure such as no airports, seaports, limited container ship tonnage, up to now in Binh Duong, there have been package logistics services such as: cargo distribution, container transshipment, domestic cargo clearance, loading and unloading, cargo transportation, bonded warehouse,...
In addition, Binh Duong also has about 62 enterprises operating in the field of logistics in industrial parks in the province including business fields such as: transportation and container leasing; building and leasing factories and warehouses; packaging, labeling, collection and distribution services; import and export support consulting services; forwarding and customs declaration services; shipping fare services,...
Besides, there are also small warehouses located outside industrial parks invested by small and medium enterprises for sublease with mainly construction materials, consumer goods and materials with a small area (from 2,000 - 3,000 m2). At the same time, it also provides other services such as: transportation, loading and unloading, freight forwarding located in districts, towns and cities.
By 2018, in Binh Duong province, there were 21 bonded warehouses, 4 CFS warehouses and 34 customs agents operating in existing zones, industrial clusters and river ports and ICD ports.
Better transport infrastructure planning
According to many economic experts, in the coming time, Binh Duong needs to build an appropriate development strategy. In particular, focusing on re-planning the transport infrastructure system and logistics infrastructure to create a favorable business environment for the logistics industry.
At the same time, Binh Duong also needs to build and plan specific logistics centers in the direction of modernity and application of information technology; supplement and adjust tasks and solutions to ensure synchronization of infrastructure and production structure in accordance with the objectives and tasks of developing the logistics service industry.
Support enterprises to develop services in many forms, in which the main task is to provide economic information, promote information technology development, improve electronic customs procedures.
According to Mr. Nguyen The Vinh (Thu Dau Mot University - Binh Duong), the process of developing logistics services in Binh Duong province still has some limitations and difficulties in the implementation process.
For example, high-quality, high-value-added services, and services to support industrial and urban development are still not commensurate with their potential.
Commercial services have not been fully developed, widespread, only concentrated in some southern cities, e-commerce is not high,...
Many businesses can only provide 1PL (self-sufficient logistics), 2PL (2nd party logistics), the number of large centers providing 3PL services (3rd party logistics) is limited. Service providers do not have close coordination and support each other in providing information ...
Logistics enterprises are unevenly distributed in certain areas, mainly concentrated in Di An City, Thuan An City.
The current development of logistics services in Binh Duong only focuses on the road system, accounting for over 90% of the freight volume.
Connectivity between modes of transport is lacking and weak, leading to an increasingly congested road transport system due to overcrowding.
In addition to the increased transport costs, storage costs are still high due to the unsynchronized transport infrastructure system, limited connectivity between river, road and rail transport.
In addition, there is a lack of national logistics centers in the southern key economic region to serve as a focal point for the distribution of goods.
Outdated, asynchronous storage and handling equipment slows down the loading and unloading process, causing damage to goods. Especially, there is a lack of high-quality human resources trained in the right logistics major...
Binh Duong also needs to promote more regional connectivity, taking advantage of regional resources for development, especially Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai, Ba Ria - Vung Tau.
It is necessary to review the strategic planning of the region's infrastructure system, clarify according to functions, do not overlap, do not have conflicts of interest, especially do not invest inefficiently in seaports, roads and airports of the region.
Develop a regional coordination mechanism in investing in airports, seaports and connected transport to avoid the dispersion of resources and lack of cohesion between seaports and logistics organizations and industrial parks in the region.
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