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Vietnam to Standardize Codes and Names of Ports Across the Country

The General Department of Vietnam Customs requested the Customs IT and Statistics Department standardize the list of codes and names of all Vietnamese ports to ensure each has only one code under the United Nations trade location codes, or UN…

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LOCODE, CustomsNews, the mouthpiece of Vietnam Customs, said. GDVC also instructed Customs IT to devise a way to test the integrated software of the import data and data on export goods shipped by the sea as proposed by the Hai Phong Customs Department. Once the port codes are standardized, the list will be used across different systems.