Thai seaports · Songkhla · Southern Thailand
The main Gulf-side port of the deep south serves Hat Yai, the rubber and seafood industries and the trade route to Malaysia. We ship your factory, warehouse or store CIF to Songkhla, so it does not have to cross the country by truck from Bangkok.
Photo: container berth at Songkhla seaport – Oatz, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Port profile
Songkhla Deep Sea Port stands on the Gulf of Thailand in Songkhla province, close to Hat Yai, the commercial centre of the south, and to the Malaysian border. It handles containers, bulk and general cargo, with berths for vessels with a draft of about 8 m, smaller than the ships calling at Laem Chabang.
For projects in the lower south the port changes the economics of a steel building. Instead of trucking the frame more than 900 km from Bangkok, we ship it CIF to Songkhla and your trailer covers only the last part of the journey, to Hat Yai, Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, Satun or Phatthalung.
The province itself is a hub for rubber, seafood and palm-oil processing, cross-border trade through Sadao and retail and tourism around Hat Yai and Songkhla city. Each of these needs practical, durable steel buildings: processing plants, warehouses, cold stores and stores.
Industrial estate ecosystem
Estates in our Thai directory that use this port as their main gateway. Open any estate for its details.
Songkhla has two estates run by the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT): the Southern Region Industrial Estate near Hat Yai, with food, rubber and seafood plants, and Rubber City, built for rubber processing and rubber products. Many southern projects are outside estates, on the owner’s land near Hat Yai or along the main highways, where a local building permit applies.
We prepare drawings and calculations for the IEAT or for the local authority, signed by your Thai licensed engineer, and design for the heavy monsoon rain of the south-east coast.
Provinces we usually serve through this port: Chumphon, Krabi, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Narathiwat, Pattani, Phang Nga, Phatthalung, Phuket, Ranong, Satun, Songkhla, Surat Thani, Trang, Yala
Industries in the area
What the south builds, and the steel building each industry needs.
Rubber, palm-oil and feed plants with dust- and moisture-resistant warehouses.
See the solutionSeafood and food-processing plants with hygienic, wash-down-ready frames and cold stores.
See the solutionWarehouses and distribution centres for cross-border trade with Malaysia.
See the solutionSupermarkets, cash-and-carry stores and markets in Hat Yai and the provincial towns.
See the solutionHotels and leisure buildings in Hat Yai, Songkhla and the southern coast.
See the solutionWorld Steel products & solutions
Designed, fabricated and shipped by one team: CIF to Songkhla Deep Sea Port, or DDP to your site.
Factories, warehouses and wide-span buildings designed to Thai codes.
See every member of your building before you sign.
Galvanised purlins cut to length and shipped with the frame.
Intumescent coatings up to R120 for estate and insurer requirements.
Corrosion protection matched to coastal or industrial exposure.
To a Thai port or to your site, with full shipping documents.
From our factory to your site
The same five steps on every project. Actual sailing schedules and transit times are confirmed in your quotation.
Made in our own factory in Tay Ninh, every piece checked against the ITP before packing.
Bundled and tagged in erection sequence; long members go in flat-rack or open-top containers.
We book the vessel and insurance and issue the B/L, packing list and Form D (ATIGA) for the duty preference.
Your broker clears the cargo at the port, or we handle everything when you choose DDP.
Trailers deliver zone by zone so your erection crew can start on arrival.
Shipping notes
Shipping to the south has its own rules. We settle them in the quotation.
We check that the line serving Songkhla can take flat-rack or open-top containers before we fix the member lengths, and design bolted splices for standard boxes where needed.
We plan fabrication around the actual sailing schedule, so the steel is ready for the vessel and no container waits at the factory.
Roof drainage, purlin spacing and fixings are designed for heavy north-east monsoon rain, and site delivery is timed with your contractor.
Every shipment carries a Form D certificate of origin for the ATIGA tariff, with invoice, packing list and HS codes that match line by line.
For coastal sites and seafood plants we specify a paint system for a higher corrosion category, or galvanised secondary steel.
Proven in Thailand
Buildings we have delivered in the south of Thailand, plus a food-plant reference.
Related topics
FAQ
Yes. Songkhla is our CIF port for projects in the lower south. We book the vessel and insurance and send the full document set before arrival.
For sites in Songkhla and the provinces south of it, usually yes: the sea route avoids a long road haul for long and heavy members. We compare both options in the quotation.
It depends on the sailing schedule of the line serving Songkhla at the time. We confirm the schedule and transit time in your quotation.
Yes. Under DDP we handle Thai import clearance, duty and VAT, port handling and trucking to your site.
Yes. We prepare the drawings and calculations your local building permit needs, signed by your Thai licensed engineer.
Other ports
Send us your site location and building size. We reply with a concept design, a CIF price to Songkhla Deep Sea Port and a DDP option to your site.
