Ho Chi Minh City prepares to select investors for Can Gio International Transit Port project

On September 25, in an official dispatch responding to a question from a reporter from the Finance - Investment Newspaper about the progress of the Can Gio International Transit Port Project, the Department of Finance said that the City is reviewing new regulations to select investors to implement the Project.

The Department of Finance said that the Can Gio international transit port project is on the list of priority industries and occupations to attract strategic investors to the City according to Resolution No. 98/2023/QH15 (Projects with an investment capital scale of VND 50,000 billion or more).

Perspective of Can Gio International Transit Port

To date, the Project has been approved by the Prime Minister to be added to the master plan for the development of Vietnam's seaport system for the 2021-2030 period.

Ho Chi Minh City has updated and supplemented the Project planning into the Ho Chi Minh City Planning Project for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050 and the Ho Chi Minh City General Planning Adjustment Project to 2040, with a vision to 2060.

In January 2025, the Prime Minister issued a Decision approving the investment policy of the Project. After that, the City People's Committee issued a project implementation plan.

Currently, the City People's Committee is reviewing new regulations in Decree No. 225/2025/ND-CP dated August 15, 2025 of the Government (on amending and supplementing a number of articles implementing the Law on Bidding on investor selection) to consider and select investors to implement the Project.

“After completing the information and conditions for organizing the selection of investors, the Department of Finance will organize the announcement of project information, preliminary requirements on the capacity and experience of investors and conditions for determining strategic investors on the national bidding network system to serve as a basis for selecting investors to implement the Project,” the document of the Department of Finance stated.

Can Gio Transit Port Project was established and proposed by the Consortium of Saigon Port Joint Stock Company and Terminal Investment Limited Holding SA.
According to the investor's proposal, the project has a scale of about 7.2 km of wharf, receiving the world's largest container ship (24,000 TEU), with a throughput capacity of 10 - 15 million TEU.
With a large scale, the investor plans to divide the investment into 7 phases, with an implementation period of 22 years.
The project was approved by the Government for investment in January 2025, with a total investment capital of VND 113,531 billion (equivalent to USD 4.8 billion).

Source: https://baodautu.vn/tphcm-chuan-bi-lua-chon-nha-dau-tu-du-an-cang-trung-chuyen-quoc-te-can-gio-d394257.html