Facebook: @ www.facebook.com/ S Á C H – T À I L I Ệ U T H I T U Y Ể N Trang 1 Table of content Abstract.........................................................................................................................................................2 I. Introduction.........................................................................................................................................2 II. Overview of VN shipping fleet.......................................................................................................3 1. Quantity proportion: ........................................................................................................................3 2. Ship tonnage: ...................................................................................................................................5 3. Ship age:...........................................................................................................................................6 4. Ship owner: ......................................................................................................................................7 III. General assessment of the reality of Vietnamese shipping fleet..................................................7 1. The strengths:...................................................................................................................................7 2. The weaknesses................................................................................................................................8 3. The causes of the weaknesses........................................................................................................13 IV. Shipping fleet development plan of Vietnam to 2020, vision to 2030. ......................................15 1. Development objectives, orientations:...........................................................................................15 2. Content of the plan.........................................................................................................................16 V. Recommendations for improving the Vietnamese shipping fleet .................................................18 1. Shipping company..........................................................................................................................18 2. Government....................................................................................................................................19 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................................................20 References...................................................................................................................................................21 Table of figures Figure 1. The ship quantity proportion of Vietnamese shipping feet ............................................. 3 Figure 2 The proportion of Vietnamese shipping fleet total dead-weight tonnage ........................ 6 Figure 3 Shipping market share of imported and exported cargoes in 2014 ................................ 12 Table 1 Ranking of Asean countries in terms of merchant shipping fleets.................................... 4 Table 2 List of Vietnam shipping fleet main indicators. ................................................................ 5 Facebook: @ www.facebook.com/ S Á C H – T À I L I Ệ U T H I T U Y Ể N Trang 2 Abstract Shipping fleet, along with ocean line and sea ports, is one of the most important physical and technical facilities of maritime industry. In Vietnam, the shipping fleet which includes 1.849 ships with a total deadweight of 7.3 million DWT (deadweight tonnage)has been transporting about 90% of domestic sea cargo volume compared to other mode of transport. Despite of that, the competitiveness of Vietnam shipping fleet compared to other countries is very low. In fact, the shipping fleet owned and operated by