APM Terminals MedPort Tangier has acquired the first three STS gantries, the largest in the world, designed to handle new container ships crisscrossing the Asia / Europe trade route with capacities of up to 22,000 TEUs. "Occupying a strategic position on one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world - The Strait of Gibraltar is home to some 60,000 ships a year. As a result, APM Terminals MedPort Tangier will significantly improve the performance of the international supply chain by attracting more ships, creating a variety of routing options. This will ensure efficiency, expand capacity and exploit new technologies.
We design APM Terminals Medport Tangier to be the best platform for transhipment of our network, integrating operational excellence at all levels, procuring the latest generation of port handling equipment and positioning ourselves on the market. 'one of the most strategic trade routes,' says APM Terminals COO Keith Svendsen. "We are strengthening the container handling capacity of the Tanger Med port and ensuring greater flexibility for Maersk Line by offering more routing options, in order to optimize its ship network and better serve the supply chain." client. In addition, the establishment of APM Terminals Medport Tangier opens up new investment fields by positioning Morocco as an essential platform for global commerce, "he concludes.
Visionary and innovative, this terminal has been designed to accommodate the largest container ships in the world thanks to its double carriage STS cranes and its use of advanced technologies, guaranteeing fast, safe and efficient operations. "Dual carriage STS gantries will be equipped with the latest technology to achieve optimal elevation trajectories with a soft landing on the gantry crane platform where the hoists are removed. The secondary carriage will deposit the container in the transfer zone where it will be operated by the rider carriage, which will transport it to destination. This process allows a very high standard of productivity. says Dennis Olesen, Managing Director of APM Terminals Medport Tangier. The choice by the latter of Tangier Med II is not fortuitous.
"Our choice for the port Tanger Med II for the realization of this new project does not come from chance. It aims to strengthen and complete the activities carried out since July 2017 on the first Tangier Med I terminal. The first experience of the group at the port complex has allowed it to better understand the potential of this area and to encourage it to reinforce its presence in the western Mediterranean. A fortiori by its position in one of the most important corridors, especially in the Strait of Gibraltar, which knows the attendance of some 60,000 ships of the world fleet per year. We signed our concession contract in 2016 and launched the construction of the future container terminal in March 2017. This new terminal is expected to be operational within a year, "said Dennis Olesen.
And conclude: "It is a great honor for us that the start of the activities of the first phase new terminal, scheduled for 2019, will mark the official opening of Tangier Med II. APM Terminals MedPort Tangier plans to continue the development of its activities with the extension of its project (in phases 1 and 2) according to the needs of our customers ".
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