The Hanjin Shipping Co. CEO’s recent comment that he expects the U.S-Asia trade lane to return to profit next month is good news for Jacksonville, Miss. His positive forecast bodes well for robust volumes the planned container Dames Point terminal, which is slated to open late 2013. It also means that more of Hanjin’s cargo [...]
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Maersk said the service was a year in the making because the Cai Mep-Thi Vai River posed challenges for deep-draft vessels. Container line Maersk’s new direct service between Vietnam’s Vung Tau and Los Angeles launched on Thursday with the departure of the 9,000 TEU Mathilde Maersk. The 13-ship loop will depart every Wednesday from the [...] In two years, the Port of Jacksonville has gone from having no Asian container carriers to having eight. The Port of Jacksonville’s newest weekly shipping service … starting in mid-May via the Suez Canal, doesn’t call on any ports between Southeast Asia and the East Coast of North America, a “strong statement on how robust [...] Maersk Line plans to add a direct, all water call from South Vietnam to the U.S. West Coast to its Trans-Pacific 6 service. By starting its first direct service from Vietnam to the U.S. West Coast, the Danish carrier joins what looks like a gold rush of carriers that have been setting up direct services [...] Cambodia's Phnom Penh’s Autonomous Port. Click on the image to read the Phnom Penh Post. Shipments at Phnom Penh’s Autonomous Port increased by 51.5 percent in February compared to the same month last year, but were down on January freight highs following Chinese New Year, figures showed Thursday. Last month 3,271 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) [...] Before Vietnam’s Cai Mep port was put into operation in June 2009, goods went to Hong Kong or Singapore and then were transferred to bigger ships heading to the US. The longer itinerary of export goods cost Vietnamese exporters more money and they had to endure high risks during the shipping, loading, and re-loading of [...] The Albert Maersk at the SP-SPA port in Vietnam's Ba Ria-Vung Tau province this week. Ba Ria-Vung Tau – SP-PSA International Port yesterday successfully handled a trial call by a Maersk Line 352m-long container vessel, the Albert Maersk, the largest ship ever to call at a Vietnamese port, whether by length, deadweight tonnage or container [...] Vietnam’s Saigon Premier Container Terminal, which is operated by DP World, began operations in October 2009. When the terminal is fully built out, it is planned to have a capacity of 1.5 million TEUs a year. The new terminal is one of six new terminals that have opened, are under construction or are planned at [...] The second cargo vessel to traverse directly between Viet Nam and the US’s East Coast berthed last weekend at the Tan Cang – Cai Mep Container Terminal in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, Vietnam. The vessel, Hong Kong’s MV OOCL America – part of the Grand Alliance – is one of the fleet’s 10 freighters with [...] The M.V. OOCL America container ship berths at Tan Cang-Cai Mep deep-water seaport in Vietnam on January 9 before leaving for the US East Coast. M.V. OOCL America, the first container ship of the Grand Alliance, docked at Tan Cang-Cai Mep deep-water seaport in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on January 9 before [...] Vietnam’s logistics industry has many natural advantages and is well placed, to help develop a regional hub, according to the Vietnam news agency (VNA). … About ten foreign logistics corporations including Maersk Logistics, MITSUI OSK, APL and Logitem dominate the market, the news agency said. … However, some experts cautioned that marine transportation could also be [...] US-based agribusiness and food company Bunge last Wednesday commenced construction of a US$100 million integrated soybean processing plant, the first of its kind in Vietnam. The facility, located in the Phu My Port Complex in Ba Ria Vung Tau Province, will have soybean crushing and multi-oil refining and bottling capabilities when it is fully completed. [...] Grand Alliance partners Hapag-Lloyd, NYK Line and Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) are to add a direct Vietnam call at Cai Mep deepwater port to their Asia East Coast Express (AEX) service, from 9th of January 2010. Port rotation of the AEX will be as follows: Cai Mep / Laem Chabang/ Singapore/ Colombo/ Cagliari / [...] |
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