The Myanma Port Authority has organized maritime trade channels to accommodate rising import volumes for domestic needs, strengthen export activities, and enhance port capacity to handle the growing number of vessel arrivals.
A TOTAL of 68 container vessels are scheduled to enter the Yangon Port in October 2025, the Myanma Port Authority announced.
Twelve container vessels each run by SITC Shipping Line and Cosco Shipping Line, 11 by Samudera Shipping Line, eight by CMA CGM Line, six by Maersk A/S Line, five by MSC Line, three each by ONE Line and Ti2 Container Line, two each by RCL Line, Evergreen Line, BLPL Shipping Line and Land and Sea are scheduled to call in the Port in October.
Myanma Port Authority has arranged maritime trade channels to handle increasing imports to meet domestic demand, to bolster exports, and to 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 the extension of the schedule.
A total of 62 container vessels in January 2025, 53 in February, 58 in March, 62 in April, 65 in May, 62 in June, 60 in July and August and 59 in September 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 was found, the draft extension work was accelerated. After that, the port can now handle larger ships. The container vessel MV SITC Zhaoming (185.99-metre LOA, 35.25-metre 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 them from 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
