APM Terminals has announced a partnership with HATECO Group for the development of two new deep-water berths at Lach Huyen Port in Haiphong, Vietnam.

With this collaboration, APM Terminals offers HATECO financial, operational, and technical support to promote direct imports and exports between the northern region of Vietnam and the markets in Europe and the USA. 

The project entails the investment and development of 2 berths with a total length of 900 m (450 m each), capable of accommodating container vessels of up to 18,000 TEUs capacity.

The investor, HATECO, intends to complete all construction works and deploy equipment by the end of 2024 and the new terminal is expected to become operational by the Q1 of 2025. In the initial phase, the facility will have 5 ship-to-shore (STS) cranes and 14 rubber-tyre gantry (RTG) cranes. 

APM Terminals is part of A.P. Moller - Maersk group, integrated logistics company working to connect and simplify its customers’ supply chains.