December 21, 2011
The CMA CGM Laperouse moored in Cai Mep Port on Monday has become the largest container ship to call on a Vietnamese port. The French carrier CMA CGM will add more ships similar in size to the Laperhouse on the Asia-Europe trade lane, starting in March. The ship has 13,830 20-foot equivalent units of capacity. The [...]
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November 21, 2011
Speeding and handing the wheels over to unlicensed drivers is not uncommon practice among container truck drivers, an investigation finds Rescuers carrying the body of a victim killed by an accident between a container truck and a bus that left 10 dead in Binh Thuan Province on November 7. The lack of container truck [...]
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November 12, 2011
Vietnamese police said they are verifying information that a driver’s assistant was driving the container truck before filing charges in the tragic accident that killed 10 people and injured 21 on Monday, November 7 in a central province. Colonel Nguyen Van Lang, police chief in Ham Thuan Bac District, Binh Thuan Province, said the [...]
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July 7, 2011
Truck driver Le Trong Phuc (L), and other container thieves at a HCMC police office. Police in Ho Chi Minh City have arrested five people including a truck driver and his assistant who conspired to steal container cargo. Â On July 2, Dang Van Vuong, 23, Tran Hong Chi, 29, Dau Minh Tam, 25, allegedly [...]
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May 25, 2011
Foreign shipping lines have imposed unreasonable surcharges on local customers, a report said. Foreign shipping lines have taken advantage of Vietnam’s underdeveloped transportation industry to impose unreasonable surcharges on local customers, a transport ministry report said. The Ministry of Transport discovered at least 10 irrational fees that foreign shipping lines had collected, including “congestion,” “container imbalance” [...]
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March 23, 2011
Vietnam's government aims to boost shipping volume at ports like Ho Chi Minh City more than 400 percent this decade Vietnam is pouring billions of dollars into building ports for the world’s largest container ships in a drive to draw export industries from China. The investment may propel the port complex near Ho Chi Minh [...]
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February 1, 2010
Thousand TEU is the storage capacity available in the first phase of the Saigon Premier Container Terminal operated by DP World in Vietnam Port operator DP World, part of the Dubai World conglomerate, said on Sunday it has opened a container terminal in Vietnam, as it looks to meet demand in the intra-Asia market and [...]
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January 18, 2010
Ships dock at Saigon Port in Ho Chi Minh City. Experts generally agree that the immense and natural potential that Vietnam has to develop a strong sea transport industry has not been tapped, leaving it in a state of continued latency. Economist Nguyen Tuan Hoa of Ho Chi Minh City Development Learning Center said Vietnam [...]
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November 14, 2009
Construction of the second of three deep-sea ports planned for Vietnam has just begun on the central coast, a year after ground was broken for the first in the south. A vessel docks at Tan Cang Cai Mep port in southern VietnamAnother deep-sea port will also get underway in the north in less than a [...]
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November 13, 2009
A vessel docks at Tan Cang Cai Mep port in southern Vietnam Construction of the second of three deep-sea ports planned for Vietnam has just begun on the central coast, a year after ground was broken for the first in the south. Another deep-sea port will also get underway in the north in less than [...]
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