Promote development of logistics services

According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, with the trend of international economic integration, the decisions of the Government on the planning of the system of logistics centers, inland ports (ICD), and the reform of administrative procedures have positively contributed to promoting the promote logistics development.

Currently, the import-export (import-export) business still buys CIF (the price at the importer's border) and sells FOB (the price at the border gate of the exporter), only about 30% of enterprises participating in the regional supply chain and global and familiar with outsourced logistics services, the rest still do by themselves. This affects the efficiency of logistics services as well as promotes logistics development.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade also said that enterprises providing logistics services are mainly small and medium. Recently, the number of enterprises has increased, making the logitisc service more competitive. However, the capacity and market share of Vietnamese enterprises are slow to change.

The current number of logistics enterprises in Vietnam is about 1,300, accounting for 25% of the market share, the charter capital is mostly about 4-6 billion VND and accounts for about 72% of the labor force, however, well-trained, only make up 5- 7%; the number of FDI enterprises is about 4-5% but accounts for 75% of the market share. Logistics costs in Vietnam account for about 2-25% of the country's GDP.

According to the Vietnam Association of Logistics Services, logistics costs are equivalent to about 10-13% of GDP in developed countries, about 15-20% of GDP in developing countries. This cost reduction helps to increase the country's commodity competitiveness. In the development of import-export (import-export) in recent years, logistics has become an important service industry.

However, over the past time, there has not been an adequate attachment between logistics enterprises and import-export enterprises, making import-export enterprises suffer high costs, prolonged time, and reduced competitiveness of Vietnamese goods; There is a problem with weak infrastructure connecting port areas with cargo concentration areas; lack of specialized freight and service forwarding centers. From there set out the requirement of developing a synchronous and reasonable national infrastructure system; infrastructure investment socialization.