DHL launches new Ho Chi Minh City – Hong Kong LCL service

DHL has launched a new direct LCL service connecting Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to Hong Kong in China.

With weekly scheduled shipments to Hong Kong, the service provides companies in Vietnam with access to twelve major trading ports in North America and eleven in North Asia, reducing transit times by up to three days.
Ho Chi Minh is one of the fastest growing ports in the region, estimated to have handled 4.2 million TEU in 2010, more than double the volume for 2007.

Amadou Diallo, CEO for Africa & South Asia Pacific at DHL Global Forwarding, said: "The service provides our customers in Vietnam with a faster and more competitive ocean freight option for shipments to their trading partners in the US, Canada, China, Japan and Taiwan. With overall transit time now reduced by three days to just seven days, this new service will enable Vietnamese exporters to compete more effectively on growing intra-Asia and Vietnam-North America trade lanes."