Phu Dinh Port is one of the three major port projects in HCM City as per Decision No. 16/2000/QĐ-TTg dated 3 February 2000 by the Prime Minister and Decision No. 13/2008/QĐ-BGTVT dated 6 August 2008 by the Ministry of Transport on the approval of the adjusted and supplemented comprehensive planning on the develoment of Vietnam’s inland waterway transport until 2020. The port, with a turn-round capacity of 500,000 tons per year and handling 3,000-ton ships, got approval in 2001 of construction on an area of more than 50 ha.