A total of 65 container vessels are scheduled to enter the Yangon Port in May 2025, the Myanma Port Authority announced.

Fourteen container vessels run by SITC Shipping Line, ten by Cosco Shipping Line, six by Maersk A/S Line, five each by CMA CGM Line and Samude­ra Shipping Line, four each by MSC Line, and Ti2 Container Line, three each by Ocean Sa­lute Shipping Line, PIL Line, and RCL Line, two each by BLPL Shipping Line, Evergreen Line, ONE Line, and Land and Sea are scheduled to call at the Yangon Port next month.

Myanma Port Authority has arranged maritime trade channels to handle increasing imports to meet domestic de­mand, bolster exports, and im­prove port capacity for signifi­cant arrivals of ships. Myanma Port Authority notified that it will inform exporters and importers of ship arrival schedules prompt­ly upon an extended schedule. A total of 62 container vessels in January 2025, 53 in February, 58 in March and 62 in April arrived at Yangon Port.

Yangon Port handled 633 container vessels in 2024 and 629 in 2023. Thanks to the draft ex­tension, the international ocean liners can access the inner port for now, according to the Myan­ma Port Authority’s statement on 22 June 2022.

After the new navigation channel (Kings Bank Channel) accessing the inner Yangon River had been found, the draft extension work was accelerat­ed. After that, the port can now handle larger ships. The con­tainer vessel MV SITC Zhaom­ing (185.99 metres LOA, 35.25 metres Beam, 29,232 GRT and 2,698 TEU) of Hong Kong-based SITC Shipping Line docked at Asia World Port Terminal for the first time on 22 June, which is the largest ship that AWPT Port has handled.

From May 2021, the arriv­al of the ships at terminals in Yangon has increased again. Three new container vessels by Maersk Line Myanmar (SeaL­and Maersk) started to run to fulfil the seaborne trade re­quirements in 2021. Earlier, the larger ships had draft problems, preventing sailing on the Yan­gon River. With the draft being extended up to 10 meters, the larger ocean liners can enter the Thilawa Port. — NN/KK