According to the General Department of Vietnam Customs, in March 2021, the country’s total value of goods export reached 29,65 billion USD, increased to 46,8% as compared to the previous month. Onwing to that export value, it is proved that Vietnamese logistics businesses have more and more opportunities to gain international commercial and contracts worth about millions of dollars.
In the context of the digital economy and deepening international integration, the problem of developing logistics services in Vietnam is always in a state of urgency when there are too many aspects that need to be upgraded and changed. However, in the past years, there has been no sign of a comprehensive change.
Despite the heavy impact from the Covid-19 pandemic, Vietnam import and export activities in the first four months of 2021 still recorded an outstanding growth at a recording rate within the past 10 years. However, there are many barriers that the import and export market is currently facing.
Ever Given container ship with number 9,466TEU, belonging to the most famous Evergreen shipping agency, suddenly encountered a problem at sea on December 30, 2020. The ship, carrying many containers in large quantities, suddenly collapsed and dropped 57 containers while passing through the route from Busan, South Korea to Los Angeles at about 02:30 UTC.
The Covid-19 epidemic has appeared and caused countries to fall into crisis in all aspects, especially in the economy. Thousands of businesses disappeared, and many industries struggled. However, in Vietnam, logistics have expressed surprise when it has overcome the Covid 19 and showed signs of going up.
The need to check and track the shipping schedule of goods or containers is cared for by both carriers and logistics companies, and manufacturers, import and export companies, etc.
The sustainable development of logistics industry has brought a lot of opportunities, but why are Vietnamese logistics companies still holding a very small market share as compared to foreign ones?
The incident of the Suez Canal blocked by the huge container ship - Ever Given, has caused an extremely severe impact on the global logistics industry. At the same time, this fact completely exposes the shortcomings in the customer service towards import and export businesses.
