Rickmers-Linie calls Myanmar

News Release Rickmers-Linie GmbH & CIE. KG (Head Office) April 27, 2012

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With the lifting of trade
sanctions, Rickmers-Linie is once again able to offer calls at Myanmar.
Initially, the country’s main port, Yangon, will be served on inducement as part
of the company’s Indian service and will cater for heavy lift cargo up to 800
tonnes in weight.
 
The fleet of the Indian
service consists of Linde, Martin and Baltic Winter, as well as
Rickmers Yokohama and Rickmers Tianjin. While the 2011-built
Baltic Winter has a deadweight of 19,800 tonnes and is capable of lifting
individual items of cargo up to 800 tonnes in weight, Linde and
Martin, both built in 2005, are 12,800dwt ships each equipped with two
120-tonne capacity cranes that can be twinned to lift 240 tonnes. The 17,000 dwt
sister vessels Rickmers Yokohama and Rickmers Tianjin each have a
maximum lifting capacity of 300 tonnes.
 
Yangon, formerly known as
Rangoon, was
once the capital city of Burma – as Myanmar was known then. Although the city of
Naypyidaw became Myanmar’s capital in
2006, Yangon, with a population of over four million, continues to be the
country's largest city and the most important commercial centre.
 
Gerhard Janssen,
Rickmers-Linie’s Director, Sales & Marketing, notes that Myanmar’s
infrastructure, including that of Yangon itself, will require significant
improvements to match other major cities in Southeast Asia:
 
“We anticipate longer term
that this issue will be addressed. Free of sanctions, Myanmar’s economy
should develop quickly and an increase in construction activity is inevitable.
That will
drive demand for breakbulk and project cargo.” As an example of what is
envisaged for Myanmar, the new capital Naypyidaw, just over 300km north of
Yangon, is said to be one of the world's 10
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