Vietnam receives world’s biggest container ship

Gemalink, the largest deep-sea container port in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau’s Cai Mep - Thi Vai seaport complex, has recently received a 24,188 TEU container vessel, the biggest ever of its kind anchored at the port to date.

M/V OOCL SPAIN, is one of the largest ships in the world and the largest container ship ever to dock at a Vietnamese port.

Launched on February 16, 2023, the ship, 400m long and 61.3m wide, is on its first voyage on the Asia-North Europe route. The journey is expected to last 84 days visiting a series of ports including Shanghai, Xiamen, Nansha, Hong Kong, Yantian, Cai Mep-Thi Vai, Singapore, Piraeus, Hamburg-Rotterdam-Zeebrugge-Valencia-Piraeus-Abu Dhabi-Singapore-Shanghai.

With its first phase becoming operational in January 2021, Gemalink has so far handled 2 million TEUs of import and export goods./.

VNA