More opportunities for Vietnamese goods to enter Europe

Vietnamese goods are becoming more competitive as a number of foreign ship liners have recently opened direct cargo transportation routes from Vietnam to Europe.

Following the Israel-based ZIM firm, four other ship liners namely Cosco, K’line, Yangming and Hanjin have added Cai Mep deepwater port in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau into the list of cargo transshipment terminals in their voyages from Asia to Europe.

Meanwhile, The New, World Alliance and CMA-CGM also plan to select Cai Mep port as an transshipment port for their vessels of between 6,000- 9,000 TEUs.

According to ZIM General Director in Asia and the Far East Dan Hoffman, the selection of Cai Mep port instead of a Chinese port as before will help shorten the shipping time from 23 days to 19 days and cut transportation costs by 200-300 USD per container.

At present, several container feeders are speeding up the opening of their transaction offices in Bangkok and use transshipment ports in Vietnam to transport their cargo to Europe and America. – VOV

Tags: Vietnamese goods

Posted by VBN on Nov 24 2010. Filed under Int'l Cooperation. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry