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Royal Caribbean invests $3.5m to upgrade cruise facilities at Vietnam's Chan May PortRoyal Caribbean invests $3.5m to upgrade cruise facilities at Vietnam's Chan May Port

During Quantum of the Seas' maiden call at Vietnam’s Port of Phu My on June 17, Royal Caribbean announced a $3.5m investment to upgrade cruise handling facilities at Chan May Port to accommodate Oasis-class ships.

Mary Bond, Editor in Chief

June 18, 2015

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John Tercek, vp commercial development of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., signed a berthing preferential agreement with Nguyen Huu Tho, president of Chan May Port.

This was witnessed by Nguyen Dung, chairman of Thua Thien Hue Province and Nguyen Ngoc Su, chairman of Shipbuilding Industry Corporation Hanoi.

This is the first agreement between RCL and Vietnam. 

The upgrading of Chan May is expected to be completed in July. The next Royal Caribbean International ship scheduled to visit the facility will be 137,276gt Voyager of the Seas in August.

About the Author

Mary Bond

Editor in Chief

Mary Bond is Group Director, Seatrade Cruise a division within Informa Markets and responsible for the Seatrade portfolio of global cruise events, print and online cruise publishing.

Mary is also the publisher and editor-in-chief of Seatrade Cruise News and Seatrade Cruise Review magazine.

Mary has worked in the shipping industry for 39 years, first for Lloyd’s Register of Shipping before joining Seatrade’s editorial team in 1985.

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