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Opened navigation in the new fluvial channel that reaches I have Who Minh City
portacontainer "the Xutra Bhum" of the MSC is landed to the Saigon Prime Minister Container Terminal
April 22, 2014
Yesterday in the container fluvial terminal Saigon Prime Minister Container Terminal (SCPT) of I have Who Minh City, that he is managed by the DP World group of Dubay, has arrived portacontainer the Xutra Bhum of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), that it is the first ship to have used the new navigation channel of the Soai river Rap in order to reach the terminal.
The new channel, that it is along 54 kilometers, has a depth of -9,5 meters and anticipates a excursion of tide until 3,4 meters, allows with SCPT, that it is the main landing place in deep waters of I have Who Minh City, to receive ships of double dimension compared to those that previously could arrive to the Vietnamese terminal. Now in fact Panamax ships of 50.000 gross capacities in tons and portacontainer of the ability to 5.000 teu can reach.
The Xutra Bhum has a gross capacity of 30.832 tons and a nominal load ability pairs to 2.378 teu.
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Yesterday in the container fluvial terminal Saigon Prime Minister Container Terminal (SCPT) of I have Who Minh City, that he is managed by the DP World group of Dubay, has arrived portacontainer the Xutra Bhum of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), that it is the first ship to have used the new navigation channel of the Soai river Rap in order to reach the terminal.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
