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Says APM Terminals during Future Ports Conference At the conference "Future Ports" held in Stockholm 25th-26th April, APM Terminals' Head of Project Implementation, Soren Sjostrand Jakobsen, told delegates that increasing productivity to meet customer demand is critical for container terminals."Our customers are building bigger and bigger ships and it is imperative that we are able to increase our delivered productivity at minimum the same pace as the ships grow - but preferably much more" Mr. Jakobsen said.Close to 80% of the new container vessel capacity coming in the next couple of years are super post-panamax vessels. Shipping lines need these big vessels to compete but clearly cannot afford these to remain in port for days. "The container transportation market is expected to continue growing in the years to come and terminal operators have to find ways to increase productivity. APM Terminals has a range of initiatives to improve processes as well as applying new and innovative solutions and technology to lift productivity" Mr. Jakobsen stated. "We - and other terminals operators I'm sure - have terminals in their portfolio where a 40-50 % productivity improvement is not an unrealistic goal and even for high performing terminals it is possible to ...

There are great business and growth opportunities in East Africa APM Terminals' annual Africa-Middle East Region's Leadership meeting was held in the Kenyan Indian Ocean port city of Mombasa to emphasize a new direction for expansion of the APM Terminals Global Port, Terminal and Inland Services Network: East Africa."There are great business and growth opportunities in East Africa and this is not new territory for APM Terminals," said Mr. Peder Sondergaard, CEO for the Africa-Middle East region, who noted that Logistics Container Centre Mombasa (LCCM), part of APM Terminals Inland Services, has been in operation since 1997. He and other senior leaders including CEO Kim Fejfer recently visited Kenya and met with Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga and Minister of Trade Amos Kimunya for high level talks, and hosted meetings with local business and industry leaders in Mombasa and the Capitol of Nairobi.APM Terminals, one of the largest port operators in Africa, currently operates nine ports in eight West African countries, as well as operations in both Morocco's Tanger-Med port, and Egypt's Suez Canal Container terminal and an extensive Inland Services network across the continent, but no port operations on the continent's Indian Ocean coast.Although the International Monetary Fund ...

To date, APM Terminals has invested USD 27 million Since assuming control of the North Terminal on July 1, 2011, now operating as APM Terminals Callao, crane productivity has more than doubled to 26.57 moves per hour per crane and gate turnaround time has decreased by 49% to 28 minutes in the first 29 weeks of operations. To date, APM Terminals has invested USD 27 million of a total of USD 749 million earmarked to modernize and expand the existing facility."We began dredging the container berths last week to increase the depth from 11 to 12.5 meters, and in April two post-Panamax mobile cranes will be delivered to the terminal, which will raise productivity to an even higher standard and increase our value proposition in the market" saidAPM Terminals Callao Managing Director, Henrik Kristensen.Planned improvements at APM Terminals Callao include the installation of 12 new post-Panamax STS cranes and 36 new RTGs. Other investments will increase the annual capacity to 2.9 million TEUs - and the installation of a new grain silo will allow 9.9 million tons of general cargo capacity over the next decade. The multi-purpose terminal will handle containerized and general cargoes as well as Ro-Ro, breakbulk and ...

The Philippines is planning to build a new shipping terminal The Philippines is planning to build a new shipping terminal with South Korean funding in Aurora province in central Luzon.The P2.4bn ($56.5m) project will be sited in Aurora Pacific Economic and Freeport Zone, and a feasibility study estimated that the terminal could handle more than 700,000 tonnes of cargoes a year.The terminal will be able to handle panamax vessels and be equipped with berthing facilities, a container yard and cargo handling equipment.The new facility is expected to serve as an alternative to Manila port for shipments destined for central and northern Luzon.Source: Seatrade Asia