Maersk Line is assessing whether the Vietnamese terminal at Cai Mep can be added to a regular Asia-North Europe schedule in the 2M Alliance.

Throughput at Cai Mep International Terminal, the APM Terminals facility in Vietnam’s Ba Ria‐Vung Tau province, southeast of Ho Chi Minh City, skyrocketed in the first quarter.

On the other side of Southeast Asia’s planning-for-the-future divide from Indonesia is Vietnam, which looks certain to have excess container handling capacity for some time to come.

International port companies face rising losses at Vietnam’s showpiece Cai Mep container port as terminals are operating at less than half of their capacity, according to industry analyst Alphal

Vietnam's Cai Mep International Terminal took delivery of the first two of six super post-Panamax ship-to-shore cranes that will enable it to handle the largest container vessels.