On 7 Jul 2020, Tan Cang Hai Phong International Container Terminal (TC-HICT) successfully welcomed the maiden call of M/V HYUNDAI SINGAPORE on the Transpacific service named PS3. This provides direct service from the North and South of Vietnam to West coast of the USA on the rotation TC-HICT (Haiphong) - Los Angeles - Oakland - Pusan - Shanghai - Ningbo - Shekou - Singapore - Port Klang - Nhava Sheva - Pipavav Port - Colombo - Port Kelang - Singapore - TCIT (Cái Mép). M/v HYUNDAI SINGAPORE with 90,000 DWT, capacity of 7.000 TEU, LOA of 304m which is one of 11 container vessels deployed by THE Alliance among 04 shipping lines ONE (Japan), Hapag Lloyd (Germany), Yang Ming (Taiwan) and HMM (Korea) on the newest service at TC-HICT

Tan Cang Hai Phong International Container Terminal (TC-HICT) – a joint venture between Saigon Newport Corporation, MITSUI O.S.K Lines Ltd. (Japan), Wan Hai Lines Ltd. (Taiwan) and ITOCHU Group (Japan), has started operation since May 13th, 2018. TC-HICT is the first deep-sea terminal of Northern Vietnam’s key economic region with two main berths of 750m in length, channel depth of minus 13.4m, turning basin diameter of 660m.  The terminal is equipped with modern synchronized facilities including 6 STS cranes, 24 eRTG, 2 slewing cranes for the barge berth, along with advanced operation system “TOPX-Expert” and electronic port systems “ePORT”, “eDO”. TC-HICT can accommodate mother vessels of 12,000 TEU and 132,000 DWT. The designed annual throughput of the terminal is 1.1 million TEU.