CEVA Logistics and CMA CGM have combined their expertise and service capabilities in Thailand and Laos to launch a new cross-border service for ocean freight containers used by customers across both countries. The new service provides imaginative solutions for both import and export customers and helps them reduce their carbon footprint as empty containers no longer have to be returned to their origin.
It is a new environmentally friendly solution bringing the best of CMA CGM and CEVA’s expertise, highlighted a release.
The new combined ocean freight and cross-border truck-ing service enables importers to drop off their empty con-tainers at a newly-expanded CMA CGM container depot, operated by CEVA, outside the Laos capital, Vientiane.
This means there is no need for an empty return leg where equipment would be previously unused and would have been sent back to the Thai port of Laem Chabang where it entered the country. Exporters from both Laos and north-eastern Thailand benefit from no delay in accessing containers in their region, which means they can swiftly and easily expedite their freight on its journey to the port.
Effective immediately, the container depot in Vientiane will support all CMA CGM Group carriers and will ad-ditionally provide storage, repacking and assembly ser-vices within the Free Trade Zone from which it operates.
South-East Asia, an accelerating and strategic market for CEVACEVA
Logistics is fast expanding its operations in the emerging South-East Asia markets, as illustrated by the opening on May 27, 2019 of its office in Phnom Penh, Cam-bodia. The region’s rapidly emerging economies present considerable growth potential, providing significant devel-opment opportunities in the transport and logistics sector, the release added.
