First container vessel received at the SSIT Port

June 18, 2018 | 17:14

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The SSIT port in Cai Mep welcomed its first container vessel on June 14. The MV MSC Rosaria is owned and operated by MSC Geneva, one of the world’s largest shipping lines. MSC will make regular calls at SSIT in the future.

first container vessel received at the ssit port

The joint-venture port’s management celebrated the occasion with the MSC Rosaria’s captain

SSIT is a joint-venture port. SSA Marine, headquartered in the US, owns 50 per cent of the facility. Saigon Port controls 39 per cent and Vinalines Hanoi holds the remaining 11 per cent.

SSIT was built to handle the largest container vessels in the world. These so-called Ultra-Large Container Vessels can carry up to 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) with a deadweight capacity of almost 200,000 tonnes.

SSIT is a deep-water facility with a 16.5m draft alongside the berth. The terminal is equipped with the largest container shore cranes in Vietnam. The overall operational berth length exceeds 1km, of which 425m are dedicated to barge operations. The SSIT’s land area totals 60ha. The container handling capacity of SSIT will reach about 1.2 million TEU annually.

SSIT has been actively handling bulk vessels since October 2014. Today, the terminal is the largest and busiest bulk port in southern Vietnam. Starting in June, container operations will be added, complementing SSIT’s operations going forward.

By Bao Giang

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