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In the 22 years between 1992 and 2014
Vietnam attained the remarkable average annual rate of
economic growth of 6.9 percent. However, the sources of
growth that underpinned much of this period of economic
transformation ready availability of labor and a structural
shift of national production from subsistence agriculture to
industry and services are gradually being depleted and
cannot be sustained indefinitely. Given that a substantial
share of Vietnam’s growth has been associated with the
expansion of manufacturing linked to international trade,
more competitive freight logistics which are the backbone of
import-export activity should be among those levers. This
report aims to compile the key lessons that have been
learned by other countries in setting up platforms for
direct dialogue between public sector agencies and private
sector freight stakeholders at the planning and policy
making level. This experience yields options for Vietnam to
strengthen its own approaches to public private and public
policy dialogue in logistics. Chapter one gives background
and current situation. Chapter two briefly summarizes the
current state of private sector involvement in the public
sector functions of management and oversight of Vietnam’s
logistics industry. Chapter three draws lessons from a
limited number of relevant countries where governments have
instituted institutional mechanisms for private sector
engagement and inter-agency collaboration in logistics and
transport planning and policy making. Chapter four offers
recommendations for the Government of Vietnam (GoV) towards
realistically implementing and ultimately mainstreaming
robust private sector engagement and inter-agency
collaboration in logistics. Chapter five presents the
findings of a recent World Bank- Ministry of Transport (MoT)
survey of Vietnam-based private sector freight stakeholders
on the subject of private sector engagement in the planning
and policy making processes of government. Chapter six
concludes by offering examples of the kinds of good public
sector logistics management practices that the GoV can
pursue if it availed itself of the collaborative mechanisms
recommended by this report.
