Good connections
MVG Dinh Vu, a joint venture between MOL (67.5%) and Vietnamese partners, has started operations in a new warehouse in Haiphong for chemical and other hazardous goods. The Japanese enterprise is banking on the site’s proximity to large manufacturers and markets.
Haiphong is the third-largest metropolis in the tiger state Vietnam, after Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. It is more than just a tourist gateway to the Ha Long Bay Unesco heritage site, however. In the Dinh Vu industrial park’s petro-chemical compound, which is in the immediate proximity of the ‘port of Hanoi’, MVG now has a warehouse that conforms to the latest regulations for the handling of chemical products and other categories of dangerous and hazardous goods. Viseco, Goldenlink and HTM are the other companies, besides the Japanese shipping line MOL, behind MVG.
Its hub offers connections to and from the Lach Huyen deepwater port, Cat Bi airport (HPH) and a motorway to the capital city, 100 km away. MOL said that the facility’s 5,400 m2 of space on two storeys makes it the largest hazardous goods warehouse in Vietnam. MVG was established six years ago and since then has offered pan-national container storage services, with two of its sites close to Haiphong. In May ‘chemical warehouse No. 1’ came up at MVG 1, which sports a 2,000 teu container depot. MVG 2, in turn, can store approximately 4,000 teu.
Growing regional demand
MOL’s focus on chemicals logistics is one of the important elements contained in the shipping line’s growth strategies in its management plan entitled ‘rolling plan 2020’. The goal of the opening of a new logistics warehouse operated by MVG is to improve the position of the MOL Group’s logistics activities in Vietnam, where the corporation expects the economy to continue to grow steadily.
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