Many businesses propose to delay the time to collect seaport fees

Although the port fee collection in Ho Chi Minh City has been piloted and officially started on April 1, many exporters and logistics businesses still think that this is too much. soon, when businesses have not yet fully recovered their business activities after the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic.

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Tuan – CEO of Blue Sea Transportation said that the issue of seaport toll collection definitely affects the business situation of export enterprises as well as logistics enterprises. “Commodity business has just started and is not stable yet, but charging this rate, this time causes a lot of difficulties for our customers, many of our customers lament this problem.”

According to the Department of Transport of Ho Chi Minh City, on the first day of application of seaport fee collection on April 1, the amount collected was 8.25 billion VND. It is expected that in 2022, the city will collect 3,036 billion VND, an average of 8.32 billion VND a day.

Import and export enterprises wish to delay the time to collect seaport fees

Not only recommending the time to apply the fee, many businesses also commented that the fee is not equal between filing declarations in Ho Chi Minh City and submitting declarations in other localities. Besides, they are concerned that the impact of seaport fee collection at this time will make exporting enterprises more difficult, it is likely that the recovery time will be extended when the time has passed since the domestic petrol price continuously increased, logistics costs also increase according to the world export market.

Mr. Truong Dinh Hoe – General Secretary of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) said that it is not possible to assess the impact of the additional fee on exporters at this time, but Mr. think that it has a psychological impact on exporting enterprises. “Cost is only a percentage of the price, for many people this can be seen as a small number. However, with export activity in the recovery stage, it can be reduced by a dong or an irregular amount. more or less, it also has an impact at least psychologically. In addition, it is related to the competitiveness of the product.”

The collection of seaport fees at this time will cause import-export businesses to face many difficulties, fees stacking fees

Before that, at the beginning of March 2022, VASEP and 6 other export industry associations included: Food Transparency; Textile; Footwear – Handbags; Milk; Plastic; Vietnam Fisheries Processing and Exporting (VASEP) and the Association of Fine Arts and Woodworking, have simultaneously proposed to Ho Chi Minh City to delay the collection of seaport fees. In the petition stated, the impact of the epidemic in the second half of 2021 caused many businesses to close, and businesses still in operation had to face many difficulties such as labor, loan interest, backlogged goods… At the beginning of the year In 2022, the situation of input prices makes production and business even more difficult. Therefore, the decision of Ho Chi Minh City to collect seaport fees from April 1, businesses will be exhausted. 7 associations said that, at this time, the city should not collect the above fees until the end of December 31 to support businesses.

A representative of a logistics enterprise in Ho Chi Minh City commented: “Although we know that after collecting this toll, we will use this fee to improve the roads, but this time is really difficult for businesses. At the moment, we only know how to reduce prices partly to make psychological moves for customers and share this difficulty. This will be applied at the beginning of next year.”

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