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Facilitating trade through competitive, low-carbon transport : the case for Vietnam's inland and coastal waterways /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blancas, Luis C.
Other Authors: El-Hifnawi, M. Baher.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, District of Columbia : The World Bank, [2014]
Series:Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Countries and regions.
Subjects:
Inland water transportation > Economic aspects > Vietnam.
Coastal water transportation > Economic aspects > Vietnam.
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Table of Contents:
  • Context
  • Objectives of the report
  • Scope and methodology
  • Key data sources
  • Structure of the report
  • Demand for waterborne and multimodal transport
  • Size and historical growth patterns of IWT and coastal shipping
  • Growth projections for IWT and coastal shipping
  • Commodity tonnage and tonnage distribution by mode
  • Inland and coastal shipping lengths of haul
  • Main freight flows
  • Regional routes and modal competition
  • Primary intra- and interregional corridors
  • Red River delta region
  • Mekong delta
  • Coastal shipping
  • Corridor 1: Hanoi, Haiphong, Quang Ninh
  • Corridor 2: Quang Ninh, Ninh Binh
  • Corridor 3: Hanoi, Ninh Binh
  • Corridor 1: HCMC northwest
  • Corridor 3: HCMC southwest
  • Container transport in the Mekong delta
  • IWT market structure
  • Shipping companies
  • Coastal shipping
  • Shipping volumes
  • Container flows
  • Containerized cargo (domestic cargo)
  • Ccontainerized cargo (feeder cargo)
  • Sea-river transport
  • Market structure for coastal shipping
  • Vinalines
  • Competitive position of IWT and coastal shipping
  • Competitive position of IWT
  • Competitive position of coastal shipping
  • Supply chains and logistics costs in Vietnam
  • Conclusions on demand
  • Supply-side considerations: waterways, ports, and fleet
  • Institutional framework for the waterway and port sectors
  • Waterway infrastructure
  • Northern waterways
  • Southern waterways
  • Central region waterways
  • Technical classification of the waterways
  • Planned investments in waterways
  • The IWT master plan for 2020
  • Major channel projects
  • Ports
  • River ports
  • Planned investments in river ports
  • Seaports
  • Fleet
  • Fleet of river-going vessels
  • Fleet of sea-going vessels
  • Fleet of sea-river vessels
  • Modernization of IWT fleet
  • Conclusions on waterways, ports, and fleet
  • Modal differences in fuel efficiency and GHG emissions
  • Relative carbon intensity among transport modes
  • Main challenges and recommendations
  • Planning
  • Institutional/regulatory environment
  • Phsical bottlenecks
  • Lack of IWT hinders market development
  • Financing
  • Strategy and action plan
  • Estimated impact of public sector interventions in IWT and coastal shipping
  • Translating the IWT/coastal shipping strategy into tangible interventions
  • Methodology: translating interventions into impacts
  • Modal shift and emissions impact of the proposed interventions
  • CBA results
  • References
  • Appendix A: list of stakeholders interviewed
  • Appendix B: major waterway routes in the north and south
  • Appendix C: general considerations on DWT capacity increases in the national IWT fleet
  • Appendix D: cargo data and modal split model
  • Cargo flows for northern provinces: road transport in tons per day
  • Cargo flows for northern provinces: iwt in tons per day
  • Cargo flows for southern provinces: road transport in tons per day
  • Cargo flows for southern provinces: IWT in tons per day
  • Appendix E: detailed description of proposed interventions
  • Appendix F: detailed impacts of proposed interventions.

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