MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING

HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

TRANSPORTATION AND INSURANCE

PRACTICAL REPORT GROUP 5
Venue: TAN CANG – LONG BINH ICD
Lecturer: Ths Nguyen Đang Quang Huy
Class: 19D1KQ-KD07 B07E
STUDENT NAME:
- Nguyễn Thị Thanh Trúc
- Nguyễn Thị Thanh Uyên
- Lê Tâm Như
- Nguyễn Thị Thu Hà
- Trần Thị Mỹ Duyên
QUESTION 1: Specify the development history and main business activities
of Tan Cang - Long Binh ICD.

Tan Cang - Long Binh ICD As a member of Saigon Newport Corporation, top
20 leading companies in port operation, marine services and Logistics, Tan
Cang - Long Binh ICD was established in August, 2007. Surrounded by many
large industrial zones of Dong Nai province and main traffic routes so would
easily connected to National highways No1, No 51 and Ho Chi Minh-Long
Thanh-Dau Giay by road.
- 2007: Established Tan Cang - Long Binh ICD Joint Stock Company.
- 2009: Tan Cang – Long Binh ICD JSC inaugurated.
- 2010: Concentrated Customs Inspection Point inaugurated.
- 2013: Inaugurated the most modern container scanning system in
Vietnam at the inspection yard. ICD Tan Cang - Long Binh.
- 2018 up to now: has built and completed 4 new warehouses, bringing the
total number of mining warehouses up to 30, with a total area of nearly 600,000
sqm (22,000 sqm/warehouse).
 Some main business activities of Tan Cang – Long Bình ICD continuously
focus on improving supply chain service, sustaining customers’ trust,
developing concentrated customs inspection point, operating Tan Cang-Long
Binh ICD’s warehouse
The firm has always focused on growing core services such as: with the vision
of being the leading Logistics center in the region, the company has always
focused on developing core services such as:
- Providing inland customs clearance (ICD) port services, warehousing
business including bonded warehouses, CFS warehouses, cold storages, general
warehouses, distribution centers.
- Loading, unloading, storing and distributing import and export goods; - Customs
services.
- Forwarding agent and transporting import and export goods by road, sea,
air, international and domestic intermodal transport.
- Transporting project goods, super-long / super-heavy goods.
In 2014:
- Turnover gets 50,96%, increase 112,84% (comparison with the same of period
in 2013).
- Sales of Logistics item acheives 136,32% (comparison with the same of period in
2013).
- The capacity of cargo pass though of warehouses gets 523,187 tons, reached
27,77%.
-The CY gets 16,423 tons, reached 37,81 tons.
- The trucking capacity gets 12,877 teus, reached 61,88%.
- Has built and utilized 2 new warehouses (warehouse no.7- 18,000 sqm and the
warehouse no.1A - 15,300 sqm).
Currently, Tan Cang - Long Binh ICD has constructed a total of 8 warehouses with
a total operation area of 141,200 sqm (including bonded, non-bonded, and CFS), as
well as an IMO 1,600 square meter warehouse and a 1,000 square meter
showroom. Thanh Long Company (a subsidiary of Tan Cang – Long Binh ICD)
has two warhouses, No. 9 and No. 10, with a total size of 30,600 sqm. It is also on
its path to being a strategic partner and the leading import and export logistics
service provider wiith new, modern and high-equipped warehouses in Vietnam.
QUESTION 2: Introduction about all types of warehouse that Tan Cang -
Long Binh ICD is currently operating. State clearly the features of
warehouses where you have visited.
ICD Tan Cang - Long Binh has completed construction and exploitation of 105ha,
including 30 warehouses, total area of nearly 500,000m2. ICD Tan Cang - Long
Binh. The area is built to high standards, performing many different functions such
as bonded warehouse, inland warehouse, CFS warehouse, distribution warehouse,
cool storage, cold storage, hazardous chemical storage, and other types of
warehouses Tailor-made according to customer needs.
ICD Tan Cang - Long Binh is currently doing business with warehouse services
such as: bonded warehouse, CFS warehouse, cold storage - air-conditioner,
chemical warehouse - dangerous goods.
- CFS Container Freight Station: is a warehousing system where LCL shipments
of different shippers are consolidated (consolidated/grouped) before being
exported or split (deconsolidated/degrouped) before being exported or split
(deconsolidated/degrouped). The warehouse is built according to international
standards, meeting the storage capacity, has a CCTV system with equipment for
fire and explosion prevention, storm and flood prevention, demonstrating the
safety of goods in the warehouse with many other types. Complete with necessary
equipment for the storage, consolidation or separation of goods.
- Bonded warehouse: large-scale bonded warehouse system, including nearly 30
warehouses of all kinds, built according to modern architecture, suitable for storing
a variety of goods according to international standards. Bonded warehouse
services are provided for the following goods:
+ Exported goods have completed customs procedures and are waiting for export.
+ Goods that have expired for temporary import must be re-exported.
+ Goods of foreign goods owners who have not signed sales contracts for
Vietnamese enterprises.
+ Goods of Vietnamese enterprises imported from abroad waiting to be brought
into the domestic market, not yet having to pay import tax.
+ Goods from abroad are in transit or stored in Vietnam for export to a third
country.
- Chemical warehouses - dangerous warehouses: warehouse for lease for
dangerous goods and chemicals to ensure the safety of goods. The chemical
warehouse at ICD Long Binh meets all safety requirements for production
workshops and warehouses containing dangerous chemicals. The warehouse fully
meets the conditions on fire prevention and fighting, environmental protection,
occupational safety and hygiene in accordance with relevant laws. In addition,
the warehouse is located at a suitable location, ensuring to fully supply the needs
of electricity, water, drainage, pollution treatment and convenient traffic,
ensuring convenient transportation for vehicles, fire truck, etc. easy to get in and
out.
- Cool storage: providing solutions to meet the needs of cold and frozen storage
of goods that customers require. The temperature of the cool storage is about 20 -
23 degrees. In addition, ICD Tan Cang Long Binh always supports customers
with requirements related to loading and unloading, counting, labeling, carton
labeling, import and export customs documents.

Characteristics of the warehouses that my group visited:

- Domestic warehouse and distribution center: Contributing to reducing
costs for businesses and maximizing profits and overall efficiency of the
whole society. This warehouse has an espcially high occupation rate
(especially consumer goods) has the task of regulating goods to the market
in a reasonable time, for example: regulating the goods circle with
different expiry date.
- CFS warehouse (consolidation warehouse) system where LCL shipments of
different shippers are consolidated (consolidated/grouped) before being
exported or split (deconsolidated/degrouped) after import.
 Modern Dock - Leveler system, equipped with advanced Racking system,
forklift, lighting system, modern CCTV, fire protection system according
to international standards...
 Goods are scientifically stacked according to each area, managed by
modern software, barcode system... to ensure fast and accurate import and
export of goods.
QUESTION 3: What have you learned and experienced from this trip? Your
own feelings about this practical tour to ICD.

After the interesting day at ICD Tan Cang - Long Binh in Bien Hoa under the
guidance of the guide and port staff, we learned a lot about the operation process,
warehouse management, and so on.

ICD Long Binh Company's sales staff also gave us a brief introduction to help us
learn more about the company's history, operations plan, and workplace safety
standards. Besides, we gained a better understanding of ICD Tan Cang - Long
Binh, a subsidiary of Saigon Newport Corporation and a leader in port operations,
maritime services, and logistics. The company had always focused on developing
core services: inland customs clearance (ICD) port services, warehousing business
including bonded warehouses, CFS warehouses, cold storage, general warehouse,
distribution center; loading, unloading, storing, and distributing import and export
goods; Customs services; forwarding services, transporting project goods, super-
long/ super-heavy goods. Import and export goods using road, sea, air,
international multimodal transportation, and inland transit.

During the visit, we were able to visit modern facilities and warehouses to learn
about the actual procedures of logistics service exploitation, sales, and operation.
The inspection yard was the first stop on the tour, where students saw the most
modern fixed container scanner in Vietnam and learned about centralized cargo
inspection at ICD.

The next stop was the CFS dry food retail outlet. Loading and unloading, packing,
controlling import and export, counting, consolidating, and dividing commodities
were all demonstrated here. When it came to loading and unloading, each
warehouse at ICD was equipped with doors that can accommodate small vehicles
and huge containers. There would be mechanical docks (sloping bridges for
transporting goods) at the large doors for loading and unloading goods from large
containers, as well as a warehouse with a suitable moderate slope for smaller
vehicles. The warehouse's design took advantage of the area's rough mountainous
terrain, which helped to cut building costs.

The warehouse number 19 was a domestic warehouse under the supervision of the
ICD corporation. To maintain the temperature and storage capacity of goods, the
warehouse was built to high regulatory standards. To avoid moisture concerns, the
goods would be carefully wrapped and placed on pallets. UEF students also
learned about the loading and unloading procedure, as well as particular symbols
for keeping items in the warehouse and container-specific information, at
warehouse number 19.
As a result, items at warehouse 19 were piled on pallets and would be stacked high
according to each unique item's regulations, and specialized vehicles would be
used to transport goods from one spot to another.

In addition, there were some interesting things we had been heard such as, Nestle
and Bach Hoa Xanh both rented bare warehouses at ICD Tan Cang in the form of
joint ventures. Normally, ICD Tan Cang rarely leased bare warehouses, all rented
warehouses must be placed under ICD's control to ensure safety as well as service
quality. Shopee also rented a bare warehouse here to store sale 6.6 goods before
shipping; Besides, we got to know about container seal and customs seals, each
container had these 2 seals, when the goods arrived, the staff must check if the seal
number was correct or not, then toke a picture before cutting the seal. In the case
that the inspection was not done carefully, the seal was wrong but still be cut,
especially the customs seal, it would be fined a lot of money, and it would take a
lot of time to redo the procedure; For packaged goods, the quality of the packaging
must be tested before being stacked, to avoid the case that when the goods were
stacked, the lower packaged were torn due to the inability to bear the weight and
pressure…

Overall, we would like to thank the Faculty of Economics, and especially our
lecturer
- Mr. Nguyen Dang Quang Huy, for organizing a field trip at ICD Tan Cang - Long
Binh in Bien Hoa to help us – UEFers - study in the most comprehensive way.
Through the last visit, students of the Transportation and Insurance class had a
wonderful day. We learned a lot more interesting things at the enterprise under the
guidance and answering questions wholeheartedly of staffs at the enterprise. The
visit gave us hours of practical experience about the theories we had learned in
class. Besides, the staffs at ICD with witty interpretability helped us understand
deeply about the operation process, as well as things need to notice and keep in
mind when working at the warehouse. All students, including us, were very excited
and listened attentively to the sharing of them. It was a bit of a pity that we could
not visit all types of warehouses, especially cool ones, because the weather was so
hot, there was nothing better than visiting cool storages. Honestly, under the
muggy weather, the staffs still conscientiously answered our questions in the state
of sweat drenching the back of the shirt, which were a very precious thing of all of
them. Afterall, these practical knowledges, as well as the sharing of the staffs
would be valuable documents for us to define more clearly and love the profession
we have chosen.