With convenient loading and unloading services, warehouses, modern equipment and optimal cargo handling solutions, including bulk cargo, Chu Lai Port, under THILOGI is proving its competency in receiving large ships, its ability to handle diverse types of goods, meet the import and export needs, and help to boost trade in Central Vietnam and the Central Highlands.

Professional bulk cargo service on large scale

On June 21, the port received the HTK CONFIDENCE carrying 19,800 tons of salt from Kandla Port (India) to Athena Company in Quang Nam. The vessel is 169 meters long, 27 meters wide, has a tonnage of more than 28,000 tons, and a draft of 8.4 meters. After 40 hours of receiving and releasing the ship, THILOGI succeeded to transport the said goods to Athena's warehouses.

Also on the same day, MOL's BOOTES TWIN from Panama docked at Chu Lai port to receive 3,500 tons of bio pellets from IDEMITSU Vietnam to ship to Chiba Port in Japan. The port is also working with more businesses in Laos to bring home mineral goods for exports.

In recent years, bulk cargo trade has been going strong at the port, with a wide variety of products, such as pellets, wood chips, cement, salt, sand, and so on. Compared with container cargo, handling and transporting bulk cargo are more complicated, which requires specialized equipment for each type of cargo. Accordingly, the port has invested in different types of equipment, e.g. conveyors, excavators, bulldozers, hopper systems, bottom discharges, etc. to improve the handling efficiency, saving costs and time. For light-weight and granual materials such as sand, salt, coal, etc., the port has grab buckets to lift the material. From the beginning of the year, the port's ship clearance capacity has been up 10-15% compared to 2022.

Investing and optimizing logistics solutions

Chu Lai Port is building a 50,000-ton terminal, meanwhile working with Quang Nam authorities in maintaining and dredging the Ky Ha channel to receive large ships and increase its throughput. Once completed, those projects will meet the growing import and export demands in the region, helping to cut logistics costs. THILOGI is also expanding its warehouse systems for better goods storage, buying modern loading and unloading vehicles and equipment, keeping on upgrading technologies and management competency, shortening ship release time.

By offering effective and cost-competitive solutions for bulk cargo, Chu Lai Port has been the choice of many importers and exporters, namely Asia Creative Energy, Thanh Thanh Dat, Quang Ngai Agricultural Products and Foodstuffs, Quang Nam Woodchip, Sun Paper Savanakhet (Laos). The port continues to improve its services, offer time and cost effective solutions and finally improve the competitiveness of Vietnamese goods in global markets, look for new customers, realizing the goal of becoming an international goods transshipment gateway for the Central Vietnam, southern Laos and northern Cambodia.