I regret to inform you, Brian and Moriah as well as the rest of my 2 or 3 other blog followers (lol), that today is my last blog post of Plus 3 Vietnam 2017. So let’s get to it, today was a double site tour day in place of all classes at UEF. We began…
Tag: Summer 2017
Day 12: VSIP and II-VI
Dear readers, We started off our morning at VSIP (Vietnam Singapore Industrial Parks). Here we learned about a rapidly growing system of industrial parks throughout Vietnam. The parks have 690 tenant companies that combine for $32 billion US dollars in export value. The company is successful mostly in the south near Saigon, since this is…
Ports and Palaces: Day 10
This morning we visited Cat Lai Terminal, an international container terminal operator and logistics provider. The company has three core businesses, including port operations with trucks, logistic services, and sea transports.Their headquarters are in Ho Chi Minh City and they have over 30 branches and subsidiaries as they are spread throughout Vietnam. They also have 17…
Reunited and it Feels So Good
Our day today began with a visit with the largest port terminal in Vietnam, called the Cat Lai Terminal which is run by the Saigon New Port Corporation. The terminal receives ships with shipping crates, unloads the ships, stores the shipping crates depending on the specific temperature it needs to be kept at, and will…
Day 11: Tan Cang, Reunification Palace and Some Sweet Clothes
Dear Readers, In the morning we went to Tan Cang, Cat Lai Terminal. There, we got a little talk about what they did and some of the logistical difficulties exist in our modern time. For example, only company mother ships are able to ship internationally. Also, Vietnam can’t ship directly to the United States. They…
May 17th – Independence Palace
This morning, we went straight to the Cat Lai Terminal which is owned by Saigon Newport Corporation. The Cat Lai Terminal is one of the largest ports in Vietnam. Cat Lai is located in Ho Chi Minh. This location is ideal because it is so close to the Mekong Delta, China, many other asain countries,…
Palaces and Ports
Hello Everybody, Today we got to do some fun stuff, including visiting the Cat Lai terminal and the independence palace- overall a very exciting day! The Cat Lai terminal is one of the largest ports in Vietnam, and certainly looked like it. There were seemingly endless rows of shipping containers, with cranes and other machinery…
Day 10 – Pizzas and Palaces
In the morning we visited one of the largest and most modern container ports in Vietnam, Cat Lai Terminal from Saigon Newport Corporation. We toured their terminal and learned about all of the services offered, such as transporting and storage of the cargo. They use special software to track the location of each container for…
From Business To Beauty
Day 10: Today we went to the Cat Lai terminal and traveled to the Reunification Palace. The Cat Lai terminal is probably the biggest port in Vietnam. From this port, many goods are brought and shipped to various places. Many different big companies use this port, one big one being mentioned is Samsung. The terminal…
Be Back Soon , Moving into the Palace
We started the day at the Cat Lai Terminal, one of the largest ports in Vietnam from Saigon Newport Corporation. Saigon Newport Corporation has become one of the most modern and professional container terminal operators in the country. The terminal takes care of jobs like cargo handling, logistics, maritime services, salvage, pilot, real estate, office…
The Port and the Palace
Today, our group visited one the largest sea ports in Vietnam. We woke up and took a 45 minute bus ride to the sea. The port, Cat Lai Terminal, was full of shipping crates and giant cranes. The seaport offers numerous services to numerous clients like storing and distributing goods in shipping crates. This information…
MTV, Welcome to My Crib…
This morning, we visited Saigon Newport Corporation, who owns the Cat Lai Terminal. It looked straight out of those scenes in movies where there’s a fight scene in the shipyard between giant cargo crates! Cat Lai is the largest container port in Vietnam and they hold hundreds of cargo containers for imports, exports, storage, and…
Day 10: Boats, etc.
Today, we went to the Cat Lai ship terminal. When the bus drove into the entrance of the ship terminal, we were overwhelmed by the sight of endless shipping containers. A representative from Saigon Newport Corporation talked to us about how the Cat Lai Terminal fits in relation to the global shipping industry. Vietnam is…
Day 10: Fancy Seeing You Here
This morning we got the opportunity to visit Cat Lai Terminal in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest and most modern container terminal in Vietnam. Cat Lai Terminal offers a variety of services such as: trans-shipment/transit/import-export cargoes, maintenance, stowage of goods, and goods handling just to name a few. With such a large impact on…
Day 10: A whole lot of crates
I woke from my bus ride nap as we arrived at Cat Lai Terminal, one of the largest ports in Vietnam. Once we arrived, we were taken into a classroom where a guide taught us about Vietnamese ports and why they matter to the country. Vietnam has a coastline of around 3,000 kilometers, so it’s appropriate…
Day 10: Cat Lai Terminal and Reunification Palace
This day began with a visit to the Cat Lai Terminal, a shipping port located about an hour outside of Ho Chi Minh City. It’s not just any port, however, but one of the largest and most important in the country. This was my first time learning about the shipping industry, so I was fascinated…
Heutige Abenteuer: The Final Presentation
Today we presented our PowerPoints on our companies that we have been creating over the past week. Not much happened today other then last minute touch-ups, practicing the presentation, and then actually presenting. But before I talk about the presentations, I’m gonna touch on how amazing my lunch at the University’s cafeteria was. I had…
Shipyards and Palaces
This morning we visited the Cat Lai Terminal. Here we saw endless, and I mean endless shipping containers stacked in rows. Even more were being loaded and unloaded onto ships of wildly different sizes, while still more were being busily packed with massive bags of rice and fertilizer from the Mekong river delta. The most…
Day 10
This morning, we visited one of the largest shipping ports in Vietnam, Cat Lai Terminal. The terminal has been a major link in the Saigon Port network for over 40 years, acting as a keystone in the eastern Asia supply chain and servicing the majority of South Vietnam’s trade lines, which accounts for a sizable…
05/17/2017 – Cat Lai Terminal
Today, I visited Cat Lai Terminal, one of the largest shipping ports in Vietnam. It belongs to Saigon Newport Corporation, an operator for container terminals. It manages cargo flow into and out of the port, and the value of the imports and exports it handles accounts for a large portion of Vietnam’s total trade amount….