HCM City to build seven new logistic centres (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – The southe🎉rn ec😼onomic hub ofHo Chi Minh City will build seven new logistic centres from now to 2025, themunicipal People’s Committee said on July 3.
They include the Hi-Tech Park in Thu Duc ciy, Cat Lai,Long Binh, Linh Trung, Cu Chi, Hiep Phuoc, and Tan Kien. Besides, the city willalso call for investment to four out of the seven logistics centres. Municipal authorities will invest in upgrading and perfecting interregionaltransportation linkage, including roadway, waterway, airway and railway to integrate to a project on transportation infrastructure development in the locality during2023-2030. In addition, they will develop a centralised datastorage to digitise transportation activities to better facilitate the Stateagencies and enterprise to search for information and optimise logisticsnetwork in Ho Chi Minh city and adjoining cities. Besides, the city is planning to establish acentre to provide hi-tech logistic solutions to bridge logistics businesses andlogistic solution providers, provide training courses to improve humanresources in the field for local small and medium sized businesses, amongothers./.
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HCM City to build seven new logistic centres (Photo: VNA) 
