On December 19th 2022, the Southern Vietnam Maritime Safety Corporation announced the technical specifications of the water area in front of Gemalink Deep-sea Port phase 1, reaching a depth of 16.5 meters.
With a water depth of 16.5 meters in front of the berth, Gemalink deep-sea port is one of the seaports with the deepest draft in Vietnam, and with this specification, Gemalink port is one of the few seaports has a strong attraction to shipping lines, especially those operating mother vessels with a tonnage of up to 250,000DWT – the world's largest container vessel size to optimize operational efficiency nowadays.
Since being put into operation in early 2021, Gemalink deep-sea port has always been a bright spot in Cai Mep – Thi Vai Port area, a cluster of ports ranked 11 out of 370 efficient ports by the World Bank. At the beginning of the spring of 2022, Gemalink port set a record in Vietnam's port industry with a throughput of 1 million TEUs after being put into operation for more than a year.
Gemalink deep-sea port is a reliable destination for leading shipping lines in the world such as CMA-CGM, Cosco-OOCL, Evergreen, Maersk Line, MSC…
In order to improve service quality, satisfy market's demand and increase the capacity of the Port – Logistics ecosystem, Gemadept and its partners are implementing procedures to kick-off construction of Phase 2 of Gemalink Deepsea Port in 2023. When Phase 2 is completed and put into operation from 2025, it will double the designed capacity of Gemalink port, equivalent to 3 million TEUs/year with 1.5 km of berth length and total area up to 72ha. Gemalink will become the largest modern deep-sea port in Cai Mep – Thi Vai port cluster, as well as in the region and the world, to meet the strong development of the world's leading shipping lines such as CMA-CGM, Cosco-OOCL, Evergreen, Maersk Line, MSC… as well as of Vietnamese import and export enterprises.
