Under the strategy from now until 2015 and with a vision to 2020, Da Nang port will be upgraded into one of Vietnam ’s leading ports pursuing container and tourist ship development. By 2015, the port is expected to handle 6 million tonnes of cargo and welcome 250,000 TEUs for container cargoes. Thanks to the system, the port will able to better manage container goods and facilitate ships in handling goods.

Da Nang city authorities have proposed to include the second phase of the upgrade of Tien Sa port into the list of projects benefiting from Japan ’s ODA in the 2013 fiscal year.

The volume of container goods and tourists through Tien Sa port records an annual increase of 20 percent and the capacity is expected to reach 170,000 TEUs next year.

The Da Nang City People’s Committee has affirmed that the expansion of Tien Sa port in the second phase will help promote the development of Da Nang and the East-West Economic Corridor, in which it is a terminal and a main gateway to the East Sea for transit goods among countries along the corridor.