List of current inland container depots in Vietnam (latest update)

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List of current inland container depots in Vietnam (latest update)

On March 28, 2024, the Minister of Transport issued Decision 320/QD-BGTVT on announcing the List of Vietnamese inland container depots.

The current inland container depots in Vietnam include:

What is inland container depot? Functions of inland container depots in Vietnam

Inland container depot is part of transport infrastructure, a focal point of organization of transport connected with operations of seaports, airports, inland waterway ports, railway stations and land border gates, and at the same time functions as a border gate for imports and exports.

In particular, the inland container depot will have the following functions:

- To receive and consign containerized cargoes.

- To load cargoes into and unload cargoes from containers.

- To accommodate containers for transportation to seaports and other places in accordance with law.

- To inspect, and complete the customs procedures for, imports and exports.

- To gather and divide less-than-container-load cargoes of different owners in the same containers.

- To temporarily store imports and exports, and containers.

- To repair and maintain containers.

(Clause 1, Article 3 and Article 16 of Decree 38/2017/ND-CP)

What are the types of services at inland container depots in Vietnam?

Services at inland container depots include:

(1) Transport support services:

- Loading and unloading service, including container and cargo loading and unloading;

- Warehousing service;

- Transport agency service;

- Customs clearance agency service;

- Cargo tally service;

- Container reinforcement, repair and cleaning service;

(2) Transport services.

(3) Cargo value-adding services: packaging, division, re-packaging, classification, labeling, processing, assembly, and inspection, and other added-value services.

(4) Other services as prescribed by law.

Thus, there will be 04 types of services at inland container depots

(Article 9 of Decree 38/2017/ND-CP)

Contents of state management of inland container depots in Vietnam

The contents of state management of inland container depots include:

- Formulating, promulgating, and organizing the implementation of, legal documents on inland container depots; and standards, national technical regulations and techno-economic norms related to inland container depots.

- Formulating, approving, and organizing the implementation of, the master plan on development of inland container depots.

- Concluding, acceding to, and organizing the implementation of, treaties concerning inland container depots in accordance with law.

- Announcing the opening, closure or suspension of operation of inland container depots.

- Managing the construction and operation of inland container depot infrastructure.

- Performing the specialized state management of activities of people, vehicles and cargo at inland container depots (cargo inspection, performance of customs procedures, quarantine, environmental pollution prevention, security and order maintenance, and fire and explosion prevention and fighting safety).

- Managing prices, charges and fees related to the operation of inland container depots.

- Compiling statistics on inland container depots.

- Inspecting, examining, settling complaints and denunciations, and handling violations in accordance with law.

(Article 4 of Decree 38/2017/ND-CP)

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