News / New box terminal at Vietnam's Cai Mep already attracting alliance calls

Vietnam’s newest container terminal is open for business – completing a turnaround for the once under-utilised Cai Mep deepwater port.

Gemalink International Port (GIP), the fifth container terminal at Cai Mep, 50km south-east of Ho Chi Minh City, is a joint-venture between homegrown logistics group Gemadept and Terminal Link, a terminal operator part-owned by CMA CGM.

According to Alphaliner, the development of GIP has “quite some backstory”: the project was put on hold for a decade when the financial crisis hit in ...