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July 5, 2022
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- MSC and VIMC partner in a project to build a large
container transhipment terminal in Vietnam
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- Seven phases planned to build 7.2 kilometers of docks
able to handle up to 15 million teu per year
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 The Swiss shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company
(MSC) and the Vietnamese maritime-port group Vietnam Maritime
Corporation (VIMC), through its port subsidiary Saigon Port,
have a project underway to build a large container
terminal in Can Giò district (Ho Chi Minh City) on
an area of 570 hectares. The project involves an investment of six
billion dollars to build 7.2 kilometers of docks in
deep waters capable of receiving container ships of the
capacity of 24 thousand teu and enliven a traffic
annual containerized up to 15 million teu.-
- The new terminal, located in an area with little subject to movement
of tide and winds, it would be proposed as a new hub of transhipment
in the region and in direct competition with the port of Singapore.
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- The project, which was presented by the Committee of the
People of Ho Chi Minh City to hanoi government, provides seven phases
of construction, with the first that would be started in 2024 and
completed in 2027, while the last one should be completed
in 2040.
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