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Spectrum of the Seas, one of the world's top ten most luxurious cruise ships, has docked at Tan Cang-Cai Mep port in the central province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau from February 26-27.

According to the Container Port Performance Index 2021 report (CPPI 2021) developed and published recently by World Bank and S&P Global Market Intelligence, Cai Mep port of Vietnam was ranked 11th among the 370 most efficient container terminals/port clusters globally.

France’s CMA CGM Group and Vietnam’s International Transportation and Trading Joint Stock Company (ITC) launched a joint venture company to provide barge services in Vietnam on April 19.

Vietnam is shaping up as Southeast Asia's single economic success story in the coronavirus era, maintaining steady positive growth as other economies struggle to recover, Nikkei Asia reported on November 19.

A leader of Phnom Penh capital city of Cambodia asked Ba Ria – Vung Tau to open a tourism bus route linking the two sides while meeting with visiting officials of the southern province of Vietnam on October 21.

Authorised offices in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on July 24 uncovered 100 bricks of cocaine, hidden in a container of imported scrap.

With a view to turning tourism into a spearhead sector, the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau has helped travel agencies renew their tours while diversifying and improving tourism product quality.

The number of foreign tourists coming to HCM City on cruise ships remains relatively low because of a lack of ports for cruise ships, according to tourism experts.

The World Dream cruise ship with 3,600 people abroad arrived at the Tan Cang – Cai Mep port in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on December 5.

The 43rd Conference of the ASEAN Port Association (APA) opened in Vung Tau city, the southern coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, drawing representatives of the ASEAN member countries, excepting for land-locked Laos.

The year 2016 went down in history of Tan Cang – Cai Mep International Terminal (TCIT) as it has handled the 1 millionth TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) for the first time in six years of operation.

Luxury cruise ship Genting Dream docked at Tan Cang – Cai Mep port in the southern coastal province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau on November 8.

China Shipping’s CSCL Star, a container vessel with loading capacity up to 160,000 tonnes, docked in southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province’s Cai Mep International Terminal (CMIT) on October 29.