New northern Vietnam port opens

Tuesday, September 04, 2012

A new container port in northern Vietnam opened last week with the call of a 2,020-TEU Mediterranean Shipping Co. vessel. The Cai Lan International Container Terminal (CICT) is around 60 miles from Hanoi, the largest city in northern Vietnam, and will have annual handling capacity of 520,000 TEUs when its four berths formally open in December. At full buildout, the terminal could eventually handle 1.2 million TEUs per year by 2016. CICT is a joint ven...

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