With the advantage of river systems and canals to trade with the seaport, the Thi Vai River is the ideal conditions for the formation of deep water port to ship out to tens of thousands of tons.
June 2009, with the participation of two international container port is SP - PSA and Tan Cang - Cai Mep has opened up great prospects for import and export activities of Vietnam in general and in particular areas.

With the advantage of river systems and canals to trade with the seaport, the Thi Vai River is the ideal conditions for the formation of deep water port to ship out to tens of thousands of tons.

 New ships are in port - Cai Mep 
 June 2009, with the participation of two international container port is SP - PSA and Tan Cang - Cai Mep has opened up great prospects for import and export activities of Vietnam in general and in particular areas.

 Busy
Over the past year, these two ports to welcome hundreds of visitors to make every mother ship and gradually increase the load of the ship. In particular, Tan Cai Mep catch the train 160 of its mother ship worldwide and 213 trains transit. Output of goods through this port reached: 270,000 TEUs (equivalent to over 2 million tons). Particularly the first 6 months in 2010 as 168 flights, including 74 mother trains, 94 ships transit. Output of goods through the equivalent of over 130,000 TEUs to 1.2 million tons. Also New Port - Cai Mep also welcome the ship transit from Cambodia, the connection to the American Shipping from barges on the Ho Chi Minh city and vice versa. Not to be outdone, from early 2010 to late July, the SP-PSA International Port welcomed 80 visitors to do with the mother ship production through more than 140,000 TEUs. This figure shows that the attraction of the area in deep-water port of Cai Mep Thi Vai was truly exciting.

Relieve congestion
Benefit from the presence of the container port operations in the Thi Vai area, the U.S. export used container transport services - a global business solutions, has significantly reduced travel time of goods by non-transit. Specifically, a shipment from the U.S. go directly to the east coast, west coast of America takes from 15-18 days instead of like almost a month ago. Shorter time, which means lower costs. Besides, not through the intermediary, the cost of aviation store waiting ships. The cost reduction resulting in reduced production costs. The larger ship, transport costs per unit of goods and lower profits for owners bring higher. Moreover, the port's activities also entail the development of accompanying services such as Logicstic, financial services and telecommunications ... The early completion and putting into operation as the port size and the new SP-PSA port - the edge of actively contributing goods widened in the South.

Deputy Minister of Transport Ngo Thinh Duc had been stated that: "If the port has no class like this can not relieve the traffic congestion situation in Ho Chi Minh city. This is a very large share of the port of loading container for the inner harbor in HCM City. "

 Strengthening competition
It can be said, the first deep water container port are equipped with shore cranes with lifting capacity from 35 to 65 tons, reach up to 50 meters, can simultaneously unloading two 20 feet containers. Loading and unloading capacity from 650,000 to reach 1.1 million TEUs per year for Phase I and will total over 2.2 million TEUs per year after completion of the entire project. Particularly SP-PSA International Port can receive at once two ships 80,000 tons, or four ships with a capacity of over 30,000 tons of goods to do. Not only providing the service port operation and delivery, Saigon Newport Company also provides third tugboat towing services for large ships to shore, 15 barges with a total carrying capacity over 700 TEUs for container transport from HCMC to Cai Mep, pilotage services ...

 Such activities in the maritime services sector is very diverse and abundant. Moreover, the operating system of the two port operation port also allows users to exchange port and update the electronic real time. A convenience store is closed again and the container to withdraw banking facilities located near the port, convenient for customers ... Therefore, to attract customers to use the services of these ports as well as the immediate competition in the future are enormous. It is known that this is only two of 12 port construction is ongoing in operation (the port is expected to rest will go into operation till 2012).