Vietnam: Almost five years since the establishment of the company in January 2007, Cai Mep International Terminal was officially opened last week.
CMIT broke ground in the mangrove swamps adjacent to the Cai Mep river in May 2008 and, whilst still under construction, welcomed its first container ship in March 2011, the 131,263DWT 'CMA CGM Columba', a vessel with a capacity of 11,388TEUs and still the largest container vessel ever to call Vietnam. To date CMIT has already welcomed 104 mainliner vessel calls and handled 151,000TEU of export and import containers to and from Vietnam's major trading partners in Europe, North America and Asia.
Located approximately 50 kilometres southeast of Ho Chi Minh City, CMIT is the first container terminal in Vietnam to offer shipping lines direct access to the 14-metre deep Cai Mep Terminal Channel, as well as the first to provide super-post Panamax quay cranes catering to ultra large container ships up to 22 containers wide.
