APM Terminals Izmir, a new deep-water container terminal on Turkey's Aegean coast, has received five rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) and two ship-to-shore (STS) cranes.
One more STS crane and five additional RTGs are due to arrive in December, enabling the 1.3 million TEU facility to handle ships of up to 16,000 TEU. Its first vessel is expected to call in March 2016.
Operating under a 28-year concession agreement with Turkish petrochemical conglomerate Petkim, the Izmir facility will have 700 metres of quay and a 16 metre depth during its first phase of development, plus the ability to expand annual throughput capacity to four million TEU.
The new port, which is part of the Petkim Petrochemical Complex development, represents an investment of US$400 million.
With the Turkish government announcing plans to increase national exports to US$500 billion annually by 2023, the terminal operator hopes to accommodate Turkish export growth.
The terminal's managing director, Mogens Wolf Larsen, said: "Turkey's very ambitious plans to become one of the world's ten largest economies will rely in part upon new and greater access to the global logistics chain, and the larger vessels serving world trade."
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26 October 2015 - 22:58
APM Terminals Izmir prepares for 2016 opening with arrival of 7 cranes
APM Terminals Izmir, a new deep-water container terminal on Turkey's Aegean coast, has received five rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) and two ship-to-shore (STS) cranes.
PORTS
26 October 2015 - 22:58
APM Terminals Izmir prepares for 2016 opening with arrival of 7 cranes
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