Laem Chabang port

Chemical blast rocks Laem Chabang port

An explosion rocked Laem Chabang port on 29 August, after a container in the dangerous goods section in Thailand’s main container port caught fire that morning.

No one was hurt as 183 workers were evacuated, but six workers suffered breathing difficulties.

Health permanent secretary Opas Karnkawinpong said that the fire broke out around 10 am local time that day, adding that a container containing organic peroxides burst into flames. The organic peroxides, which are used to make polymers, were...

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Hutchison Ports deploys Q-trucks at Laem Chabang

Hutchison Ports Thailand says it is the first port operator in Thailand and among the first in the world to acquire and test autonomous trucks at its Terminal D facility at Laem Chabang Port, Chon Buri.

This a huge step forward, Hutchison Ports Thailand says, for the development of the nation’s ‘smart’ infrastructure along the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), with the autonomous, ‘Qomolo’ trucks promising to improve efficiency and safety at its operations at Terminal D.

The investment will not...

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Covid-19 hits East Asia-Southeast Asia container rates

Container freight rates on East Asia-Southeast Asia routes have been weakening since March 2020, as the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on supply chains and industrial output has materialised.

The pandemic began in late January 2020, but there was a time lag between then and the increasing lockdowns across the world.

The Shanghai Shipping Exchange showed that as of 24 April, freight rates between Shanghai and Singapore averaged US$165/TEU, a US$14 drop from the previous week. A US$16 drop was...

https://container-news.com/covid-19-hits-east-asia-southeast-asia-container-rates/

TS Lines launches new reefer route from Thailand

Taiwanese intra-Asia carrier TS Lines is launching another reefer route from Thailand due to growing shipments between the Southeast Asian country and China.

Beginning on 24 March 2020, the Thailand Reefer Express (TRX) service loop will be Hong Kong, Nansha, Shekou, Bangkok and Laem Chabang. TS Lines will deploy two 1,100TEU vessels to the TRX service and each vessel can carry 250 x 40-foot reefer boxes.

TRX is TS Lines’ eighth service that calls at Thailand. With a turnaround time of four days,...

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Laem Chabang container fire under inspection

Deputy Transport Minister Phairin Chuchotithaworn inspected the aftermath of last week’s fire and explosion on board a container ship at Laem Chabang port on Friday, May 31. About 100 port workers were injured in the initial fire.

The minister told the assembled media that 13 containers on the KMTC Hongkong container ship contained calcium hypochlorite, which is considered hazardous and thus needed to be declared beforehand, but was not done so. He said the consigner and consignee of the...

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Raised questions after KMTC ship fire at Laem Chabang

A week after a fire broke out on a container ship at the Laem Chabang Port, sending up toxic fumes that harmed hundreds of people, there are more questions than answers about the mysterious incident.

“There are irregularities, which inevitably raised suspicions. The owner of the ship did not declare all cargo and intentionally concealed some of it, including extremely dangerous chemicals in 13 containers,” Deputy Transport Minister Pailin Chuchottaworn said after inspecting the scene at the port...

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KMTC fined for fire at Thailand – Environmental experts slam port authority

Korea Marine Transport Co. Ltd. (KMTC) was fined THB50,000 ($1,570) by Port Authority of Thailand (PAT) for the KMTC Hongkong accident.

The ship’s chemical fire released dangerous substances into the air, leading more than 150 people to hospital. In addition, three berths of Laem Chabang Port were closed, cause of the fire.

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Environmental experts slam PAT

However, environmental experts strongly disapproves PAT’s action, because they think that...

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Thailand to build Laem Chabang smart port

Thailand is seeking to build Laem Chabang port in the Eastern Economic Corridor a fully smart port to make the southeastern country a regional hub of logistics, reports said on Tuesday, May 21.

The third-phase development of Laem Chabang port will be built under public-private partnership deals, according to reports.

The smart port is expected to be equipped with operations management via digital solutions and robot management system that enable an all-weather shipping. The Thai government also...

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Hutchison Ports opens high-standard container terminal in Thailand

TERMINAL D ATTRACTING SOME OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST CONTAINER VESSELS TO THAILAND
  • Hutchison Ports will be investing US$600 million in Terminal D which will be the most advanced deep-sea container terminal in Thailand.
  • As one of the world’s first container terminals to be fully equipped with remote control technology for all of its quay cranes and yard side rubber tyred gantry cranes, Terminal D is already handling some of the world’s largest container vessels currently in operation.
  • On full...

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