At the meeting, Secretary of Can Tho Municipal Party Committee Nguyen Van Hieu informed the guests about the city, its advantages, and its potential to develop a large-scale transshipment port.

He said the construction of a large-scale transshipment port is of great significance as it involves high technology investment in line with the central government's development strategy for the Mekong Delta. Under the city’s master planning scheme which has got the Prime Minister’s approval, a 155-ha area in Thot Not district is reserved for the port thanks to its favorable transport connection and close distance to O Mon thermal power plant and Tra Noc industrial park.

According to the planning scheme, that area has three main functions of seaport, logistics center, and warehouse. Therefore, investors can choose to synchronously implement the whole 155-hectare area to facilitate site clearance and resettlement, then have a clean land plot for the project construction.

With this project, Can Tho City is committed to supporting investors in their development pursuits. The project has been officially declared, and implementation has already begun, Hieu said.

The representative of MSC Vietnam said that MSC Group is a Swiss private corporation that was founded in 1970 and currently has the largest shipping line in the world. The Group has around 180,000 employees working in 675 offices in 155 countries.

The representative also mentioned that the planned location of the 155-hectare port in Can Tho matches the group’s development strategy, which can connect with MSC’s ports and other deep-sea ports in Vietnam.

Meanwhile, the Thanh Binh Phu My Joint Stock Company - the developer and operator of Phu My 3 specialized industrial park which is a key project of Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province, asked the city's authorities for permission to build an industrial park - Phu My 3 Can Tho IP covering an area of 600 - 800 hectares in Vinh Thanh district.

After studying and surveying the area, MSC Vietnam and Thanh Binh Phu My Joint Stock Company proposed the city's authorities revoke an initial area of about 600 hectares in the planned Vinh Thanh IP (Phase 2) to develop the Phu My 3 Can Tho IP.