HUTCHISON's Barcelona Europe South Terminal (BEST) handled the largest containership ever to call at the Port of Barcelona, the 16,600 TEU MSC London.
The arrival also set a new productivity record by discharging 618 containers and loading 1,035, in less than eight hours: a rate of 212.58 moves per hour, said the Hong Kong company statement.
Individual cranes operated at rates of up to 45 moves per hour, one of the best rates in Europe, Hutchison declared.
"We achieved this record using seven cranes at the peak supported by our fleet of 36 automatic stacking cranes," said BEST general manager Guillermo Belcastro.
"BEST is the only semi-automated terminal in Spain and the only one in the Mediterranean to be equipped with 11 ship-to-shore gantry cranes large enough to handle the latest generation of mega-vessel," he said.
With state-of-the-art operating systems, including HPH's proprietary terminal operating system, nGen, BEST offers shipping lines and shippers the most efficient way of accessing markets in Spain and southern France," said the company statement.
The MSC London is one of the largest ships operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). Built in 2014, the vessel is 399 metres in length with a breadth of 54 metres and a draft of 16 metres.
With a gross tonnage of 176,490 tonnes the call was the last at the port from the MSC Dragon Express service. The MSC London was followed on 11 February 2015 by a call from the 10,300 TEU Susan Maersk, the first call at BEST by the new 2M alliance between MSC and Maersk.
Barcelona Europe South Terminal, owned by Hong Kong's Hutchison Port Holdings Limited (HPH) is capable of serving multiple mega-ships simultaneously and has an eight-track rail facility, the biggest on-dock railway terminal of any port in the Mediterranean connecting it to traffic coming from, and destined for, Southern Europe.
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22 February 2015 - 22:27
Hutchison's Barcelona box shop docks port's biggest, 16,600-TEU MSC London
HUTCHISON's Barcelona Europe South Terminal (BEST) handled the largest containership ever to call at the Port of Barcelona, the 16,600 TEU MSC London.
WORLD SHIPPING
22 February 2015 - 22:27
Hutchison's Barcelona box shop docks port's biggest, 16,600-TEU MSC London
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