# Mui Vung Tau (VN VUT)

**UN/LOCODE:** VN VUT  
**Country:** Vietnam  
**Water Body:** South China Sea; North Pacific Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Very Small  
**Harbor Type:** Coastal (Natural)  
**GPS:** 10.3167, 107.0667

Offshore oil and gas operators, not container lines, define the working day at Mui Vung Tau. The name refers to the cape and roadstead off the city of Vung Tau in southern Vietnam, an area used chiefly as an anchorage and supply base for the country's offshore energy industry. Supply vessels run out to the production platforms, while pilots board the deep-sea ships heading for the estuary terminals along the Thi Vai River. The point itself offers no dedicated container or general-cargo berths; that capacity sits at the nearby Cai Mep-Thi Vai deep-water terminals, which together handle several million TEU a year. Forwarders moving boxes, reefer or project cargo should therefore route via Cai Mep-Thi Vai or the port of Ho Chi Minh City (Cat Lai) rather than the cape. Mui Vung Tau is best understood as an offshore-logistics and ship-handling node serving one of Vietnam's busiest maritime regions.

## Transit Times & Routes

- [Ho Chi Minh City → Shanghai](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/transit-time/ho-chi-minh-city-shanghai)
- [Ho Chi Minh City → Shenzhen](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/transit-time/ho-chi-minh-city-shenzhen)
- [Ho Chi Minh City → Guangzhou](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/transit-time/ho-chi-minh-city-guangzhou)
- [Ho Chi Minh City → Hong Kong](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/transit-time/ho-chi-minh-city-hong-kong)
- [Ho Chi Minh City → Tokyo](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/transit-time/ho-chi-minh-city-tokyo)
- [Ho Chi Minh City → Busan](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/transit-time/ho-chi-minh-city-busan)

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