Cai Mep Port welcomes 1st Maersk Line’s container ship

Cai Mep International Terminal (CMIT) has welcomed Grete Maersk, the 1st ship of Maersk Line’s Trans-pacific String, on its route from Asia to North America.

With this first direct ‘Trans-pacific 6’ (TP6) vessel, weighing at 115,700 dwt and with a capacity of 9038 TEU, calling CMIT, Maersk Line has officially become a business partner of its sister company, APM Terminals, one of the three main investors in CMIT.

This move tightens the relationship between the carrier and port operator and benefits their import-export customers.

CMIT offers Maersk Line a 14-meter channel depth with 16.5-meter depth alongside, state-of- the-art shipside and shoreside handling facilities and over 36 hectares of container yard.

“We are excited to start calling at CMIT with our Direct Trans-Pacific service and look forward to further enhancing the service to our customers,” said Peter Smidt-Nielsen, general director of Maersk Line Vietnam.

“We are very proud to have 100 percent On-Time schedule reliability between Vietnam and the US West Coast in quarter 2 as the only line, and we look forward to continue delivering that important service to our customers,” he added.

As business partners, Maersk Line and CMIT aim to provide their customers a better service to North American destinations, on-time vessel reliability and higher capacity to cover increased demand for imported cargo to Vietnam.

“With state-of-the-art equipment, highly trained and dedicated people and already high berth productivity, we are sure we can deliver on Maersk Line’s high expectations of us,” said Michael Them Rasmussen, general director of CMIT.

The $270 milion CMIT was established on January 26, 2007 as a joint venture between the Vietnam-based Saigon Port, Vietnam National Shipping Lines and APM Terminals BV.

Maersk Line is the core liner shipping activity of the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group, and the leading container shipping company in the world with a fleet numbering more than 500 container vessels.

It serves customers through a network of its own offices and third party agents, in more than 125 countries, ensuring consistent, high quality service worldwide. It has about 20,000 employees in 130 countries worldwide.

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