CEVA Logistics, CMA CGM come up with environmentally friendly cross-border service

June 13, 2019: CEVA Logistics and CMA CGM have launched a new cross-border service for ocean freight containers used by customers across Thailand and Laos. The service will help the companies' import and export customers and help them reduce their carbon footprint as empty containers no longer have to be returned to their origin.

The new combined ocean freight and cross-border trucking service enables importers to drop off their empty containers 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 Northeastern 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 additionally provide storage, repacking and assembly services within the Free Trade Zone from which it operates.

“Our close co-operation with CMA CGM to deliver a unique industry proposition has been warmly welcomed by customers in both Laos and Northeastern Thailand. It serves as a very concrete example of the tangible benefits the strategic partnership with CMA CGM already brings to our customers, providing them with faster access to our global network, adding value to their supply chains and helping preserve the environment,” says Elaine Low, South East Asia executive vice president, CEVA Logistics.