Oman container terminal at Sohar port doubles volumes in 18 months
THE port of Sohar's Oman International Container Terminal (OICT) has seen its container throughput double over the past 18 months.
Terminal C at the port has now officially been completed, and also the new Operations Control Centre (OCC) has been opened, and state-of-the-art Remote Control Crane Centre was inaugurated during the same event held to mark these milestones.
The new Terminal C facility allows the remote operation of newly installed quayside cranes that have sufficient reach to load and unload ships of up to 20,000 TEU, reported TradeArabia News Service.
The occasion was also marked by the arrival of the 13,000-TEU "MSC Altair," the largest box ship to call at the port to date.
In addition to faster turnaround times facilitated through automated loading and unloading systems, OICT now boasts an online truck appointment system.
The new communications software schedules container truck arrival times at the terminal through direct contact with the truck operators and drivers.
Once Terminal D is completed, it will increase the port's annual handling capacity fourfold, to six million TEU. The construction work is likely to start in late 2018 or early 2019. This new container terminal will boast a 1.2 kilometre-long jetty.
The old container Terminal B is now being fully reconstructed as the Sohar Food Zone, a dedicated agro berth with planned facilities for rice, grain and sugar processing.
In welcoming the MSC Altair to the port, Sohar chief executive Andre Toet, said: "It's hard to imagine that we only saw our first ship here in Sohar a little over 10 years ago."
"The growth in size and efficiency at OICT is phenomenal and we are proud to be able to partner with companies like Hutchison Port Holdings to operate our terminals," he added.
THE port of Sohar's Oman International Container Terminal (OICT) has seen its container throughput double over the past 18 months.
Terminal C at the port has now officially been completed, and also the new Operations Control Centre (OCC) has been opened, and state-of-the-art Remote Control Crane Centre was inaugurated during the same event held to mark these milestones.
The new Terminal C facility allows the remote operation of newly installed quayside cranes that have sufficient reach to load and unload ships of up to 20,000 TEU, reported TradeArabia News Service.
The occasion was also marked by the arrival of the 13,000-TEU "MSC Altair," the largest box ship to call at the port to date.
In addition to faster turnaround times facilitated through automated loading and unloading systems, OICT now boasts an online truck appointment system.
The new communications software schedules container truck arrival times at the terminal through direct contact with the truck operators and drivers.
Once Terminal D is completed, it will increase the port's annual handling capacity fourfold, to six million TEU. The construction work is likely to start in late 2018 or early 2019. This new container terminal will boast a 1.2 kilometre-long jetty.
The old container Terminal B is now being fully reconstructed as the Sohar Food Zone, a dedicated agro berth with planned facilities for rice, grain and sugar processing.
In welcoming the MSC Altair to the port, Sohar chief executive Andre Toet, said: "It's hard to imagine that we only saw our first ship here in Sohar a little over 10 years ago."
"The growth in size and efficiency at OICT is phenomenal and we are proud to be able to partner with companies like Hutchison Port Holdings to operate our terminals," he added.