With impressive business results: revenues in six years (2006 - 2011) of more than VND23,000 billion, VND5,000 billion of profits, tax payments of VND1,700 billion, and average annual growth of 25 - 30 percent, Saigon Newport Corporation continues to assert and uphold its brand name and position of a most professional, modern and largest container port operator in Vietnam. Never being satisfied itself, the corporation always wishes to conquer new heights.
Impressive achievements
In recent years, Saigon Newport Corporation has made long strides in business operations. The brand name "Saigon Newport" actually becomes a big prestigious name in the region and the world. Currently, the corporation is operating many ports in Vietnam, especially Tan Cang - Cai Mep (Ba Ria - Vung Tau province) and Tan Cang - Cat Lai (Ho Chi Minh City). Tan Cang- Cat Lai Terminal is now the biggest and most modern international container terminal in Vietnam. It is now capable of receiving vessels of 110,000 tonnes and opening routes to North America and Europe. Tan Cang- Cat Lai is ranked amongst the world’s 40 largest container terminals.
In addition to the above two terminals, Saigon Newport already put into operation Tan Cang - Sa Dec container terminal in Dong Thap province. With the first phase investment capital of VND40 billion (US$2 million), it can handle 6,000 TEUs a month. The facility provides logistics services for waterways connecting neighbouring Cambodia with Mekong Delta, Ho Chi Minh City and Cai Mep (Ba Ria - Vung Tau province). Together with the most modern, synchronous port system in Vietnam, Saigon Newport Corporation also develops interconnected warehouses, ports and water/land transport routes nationwide, making it the only port operator in Vietnam to provide all-inclusive port operation and logistics services for exporters, importers and carriers.
With stronger capacity and better workforce, Saigon Newport confidently moves forward on the path to assert its position and continually reaps important achievements. Taking care of customers’ demand and benefits, the corporation chose 2011 as the Year of Customers with four targets: Polite transactions, kind help, quick delivery, and lower costs. With its customers-oriented strategy, Saigon Newport not only made a difference but also brought convenience and practical benefit to both customers and businesses in 2011. In that year, the corporation was the first port in the country to handle more than 3 million TEUs, up 7.2 percent over 2010, which generated revenues of VND5,762 billion, up 25.1 percent, and profits of VND984 billion, up 1.8 percent. Currently, Saigon Newport is the most modern container terminal in Vietnam, with a market share of over 83 percent in the Ho Chi Minh City area and of nearly 50 percent in the country. Its success in 2011 reasserted its strong position and sustainability and laid the ground for business plans in 2012, with main focus of expanding services, connecting customers, strengthen governance, reduce costs and improve business efficiency."
To achieve these successful results, in addition to objective factors, the main factor is the bravery and willpower of Uncle Ho’s soldiers who never compromise difficulties and challenges and always spare no effort to move forward. This core element plus this sound development strategy and right steps has created a constant developing Saigon Newport and generated a new wonder of the Vietnamese maritime industry.
Building Saigon Newport culture
Understanding the importance of corporate culture in the whole process of brand development, thus in addition to the efforts to ensure business performances, Saigon Newport Corporation always regards corporate culture construction as an important content of sustainable and effective development. Deputy General Director Tran Khanh Hoang said that corporate culture is considered an intangible asset and a key to success of any company on the marketplace. Comprehending this matter, together with business development tasks, has made an endeavour to create its own brand values by building healthy corporate culture and linking with interests of employees and the community. Under this light, corporate culture building has contributed to the sustainable development of Saigon Newport brand and become the effortful target of the company. By implementing corporate culture, the corporation has built a complete legal environment, an increasingly improved business environment, and constantly improving service quality. With the motto "Come to Saigon Newport, come to the best quality services," the corporation is always willing to listen, share, and satisfy all requirements of customers, even from the most demanding ones. Specially, by enhancing the value of traditional culture, the firm has organised many activities to educate, raise up awareness of employees staff, create a sense of pride and responsibility in every employee. Not only focusing on business performance and branding, the corporation also puts a premium on building corporate culture to corroborate the common consensus, responsibility and pride of the company.
Mr Hoang said: "As the soldiers, we deeply understand the pains and losses caused by the war. Saigon Newport Corporation does not consider social development and charity activities as a responsibility, an obligation or a PR method but we do those things from our heart. Each year, we spend about VND20 billion on social welfare activities, contribute to the Gratitude Fund and the Fund for the Poor, take care of heroic Vietnamese mothers, visit and present gifts to wounded soldiers and families of martyrs, build houses for returned soldiers or families with great contribution to national liberation. What makes Saigon Newport Corporation from other businesses are the cohesion and unity of all officers and soldiers under the common roof Saigon Newport. We see our company as the common home and colleagues as brothers who share and build the common home all together. On that basis, we choose March 15 as the traditional day, the establishment anniversary and the Newport Family Day - the day for all employees and soldiers to meet, exchange, look back the past year and look forward the new one.”
After more than 23 years of construction and development, Saigon Newport Corporation always successfully completes all objectives, thus building and developing its brand name sustainably and edging up the competitiveness in the process of international integration. In addition, the corporation always takes care of material and spiritual lives of employees, and increases wages for them. With the well-built foundation, under the lucid, experienced leadership of the Board of Directors, and with the collective unity of all staffs, Saigon Newport is confident to move forward and contribute more to the process national industrialisation and modernisation as Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai used to say: As a military-run enterprise that leads the way in building and operating seaports, building corporate culture and military disciplines, I am confident that Saigon Newport Corporation will develop logistics services to the level of the region and the world.
Van Luong
Vietnamese
