Việt Nam’s Transport and Logistics Statistical Yearbook 2019 showed the total length of the country's road system is 630,564km but the total length of the highways is less than 2,000km. The lack of infrastructure connecting road to seaports such as domestic container ports or modern logistics centres has made logistic costs in Việt Nam uncompetitive. Trần Thanh Hải, deputy director of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Import and Export Department, shares his views on the development of the logistics sector in Vnews’s Economic Focus programme