Da Nang (VNA) – The Da Nang city People’s Committee has recentlyapproved a project on developing sea-based economy by 2025 with vision to 2030,aiming to build the central city into a maritime economic hub with explosivegrowth in companion with environment protection and sustainable development.

To implement the project, the city will need over 19 trillion VND (835.9million USD) for the 2017-2020 period, 13 trillion VND (571.9 million USD) for2021-2025 and 17 trillion VND (747.9 million USD) for 2026-2030.

The city targets tourism growth of 13-14 percent during 2016-2025 and 13percent during 2026-2030, while the output of processed aquatic products forexports would increase by 12-13 percent per year by 2025 and 8-10 percent peryear by 2030. Local ports will raise their annual throughput to 12-13 milliontonnes of commodities.

Along with branching out new tourism products, yacht industry and coastaltourism infrastructure, the city will focus resources on developing maritime transport.

Accordingly,Tien Sa port will be reserved to serve cruise ships and Lien Chieu is set tobecome the major cargo port in the city. More inland container ports (ICDs)will be built to facilitate import-export activities as well as commoditytransportation through the East-West Economic Corridor that links Laos,Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.

The city has formed policy to support training for logistic human resources andarranged experts to research marine economic development policies. Project oncontainer transportation between Tien Sa and Lien Chieu has been set up toimprove speed of the boats.

Regarding seafood exploitation, the city will upgrade Tho Quang fishing port tothe top-grade national standard one, aiming to become one of the five fisheryhubs in the country. A fleet of high-capacity composite and steel fishingvessels will be developed while equipment, machines and fishing nets will bemodernised to improve product quality.

Connections among fishermen, cooperatives and logistics and distribution businesseswill be set up as well.

The Da Nang College of Food Industry will be upgraded to university level totrain high-quality human resource in seafood cultivation and processing.

The city will pay due attention to enhancing management capacity for fisheriessurveillance force, investing in information management system for fishing groundsand communication equipment for fishing vessels to ensure safety for fishermen.

Italso works to build a project on tuna exploitation and exports and ask Japan tosupport local fishermen with tuna fishing techniques.

State-of-the art waste water treatment will be built in Tho Quang boat shelter.The city encourages businesses to use green production technology to reducewaste and sewage, save energy and materials as well as effectively handlepollution.-VNA