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Vietnam to build passenger port for cruise on Phu Quoc Island
Update: 23:23, Sunday, Oct 26,2014 (GMT+7)
Phu Quoc Tourism Investment and Development, a member of Vietnam’s leading realty developer Vingroup, has called on the Ministry of Transport and the Kien Giang administration to allow it to develop the Phu Quoc passenger port. The company said it will cover all of the investment costs for the port, estimated at VND1.25 trillion (US$58.83 million).

On October 23, a consultant board that had been set up to determine where the port should be located proposed that the facility be built in Duong Dong town, citing the transport ministry. The new facility will make use of the land plot left by an old airport in the town. The proposal won support from the Kien Giang administration, which said the project is in accordance with the province’s plan for the island.

The Phu Quoc tourism company said it will develop the project under a mixed model between the BOT (build-operate-transfer) and BT (build-transfer) schemes. Phu Quoc Co said it would seek to be repaid 70 percent of the investment under the BT model, and will recover 30 percent of the investment from revenues generated by the passenger port, or the BOT scheme.
Phu Quoc is the largest island in Vietnam, measuring 589.23 km² in area, with population exceeds 90,000.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a plan to develop Phu Quoc into a special administrative-economic region administered by the central government by 2020. Kien Giang now eyes the arrival of 1-1.2 million visitors to the island in 2015, and 2-3 million tourists in 2020, with gross revenue amounting to US$771 million by then.

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