World’s largest container ship docks at Vietnam’s Cai MepMargrethe Maersk container ship with the deadweight of 194,000 tons and capacity of 18,300 TEU docked at Cai Mep International Terminal (CMIT) on February 20th, making it the first seaport in Vietnam and the nineteenth in the world able to accommodate the world’s largest Maersk Triple E class container ship. The world’s largest container ship docks at Cai Mep International Seaport, Ba Ria-Vung Tau, southern Vietnam on February 20th. The ship was on its way to transport goods from Asia and Europe, docking at Cai Mep to load and straightly transport Vietnamese goods to Europe. Six years after the first container wharf of Cai Mep seaports came into operation, the volume of container goods via the complex reached 1.36 million TEU in 2015. CMIT is a dedicated container terminal invested by international container terminal operator APM Terminal, Saigon Seaport and Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) in the lower reaches of the Cai Mep river.

Source: VietNamNet News February 20, 2017 05:48 UTC