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WorldCargo news Bananas back in Rotterdam After a gap of more than 20 years, banana traffic has returned to Rotterdam in the shape of a new weekly service by Dutch reefership operator Seatrade. Some 1200 tonnes of palletised bananas and pineapples, from Kingston and Port Antonio in Jamica and Puerto Mimon in Colombia, were unloaded from the first vessel to call, CAPE PALMAS, by Seabrex at Rotterdam Fruitport in the Merwehaven. The stevedore could handle a total of 100,000 tonnes in the first year. The traffic has come from Belgian New Fruit Wharf (BNFW) in Zeebrugge - it was BNFW Antwerp which won the banana business from Rotterdam in the 8 Roll trailers with safety hooks Other equipment: first place. Seatrade, whose main European commercial office is in Antwerp, says it met no resistance from the fruit importers when it decided to switch to Rotterdam from Zeebrugge. Most of the bananas are destined for Italy, Switzerland and Poland and the pineapples are for the Benelux area. The Caribbean service is a combined one of Seatrade and Jamaica Producers and is operated by Seatrade using five of its own vessels. In the past the ships unloaded in Portsmouth and Zeebrugge and then headed to Rotterdam solely on behalf of EWL (Europa West Indies Lines) in Rotterdam, in order to book cargo for Goosenecks, up to 45 tonnes Skeletal trailers with container guides, up to 60 tonnes Multi-trailer systems, up to 60 tonnes Skeletal trailer with Rockerbeams, up to 70 tonnes Cornerless "bumpcar" with "Rockerbeams" Cassettes for self-loading lifting trailers Self-loading lifting trailers with cassettes, up to 120 tonnes Roll trailer with fixed gooseneck the return leg to Curaçao, Aruba, Jamaica and Costa Rica. Hence dropping Zeebrugge for Rotterdam is a cost-saving move. In Rotterdam, the ships have to move only from the Merwehaven (Lekhaven) to the Gevelco terminal in the Waalhaven to pick up cargo. The fruit is stored at the Ebrex Bulk Terminal, as renamed by Seabrex after the take over of the Kloosterboer terminal, where there are separate compartments to store different fruits at the correct temperature. ● The refrigerated storage facilities in the Russian Baltic port of Kaliningrad have attracted the interest of Ecuadorian banana shippers. The Baltic States and Poland have toughened the operating requirements at their seaports since joining the EU and Latin American exporters are looking at alternatives to traditional delivery patterns. Kaliningrad can currently unload one ship per week and store around 10,000 tonnes of bananas per month in one of its two cold stores. Capacity will increase soon, however, as a third cold store with a total area of 3780 m 2 is due to start up in mid-October. The high tariff rates of Lithuanian Railways for transit cargo to the Russian market via the Kaliningrad enclave make the bananas more expensive then those handled at St. Petersburg. However, the low export price has still helped make Kaliningrad an attractive alternative. Used equipment available!! Ask for details. PORT NEWS New joint venture in Ningbo Ningbo Port Group (NPG) has set up a joint venture with Cosco Pacific, Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) and SDIC Communications to develop a fiveberth terminal at China’s fourth largest container port. The company, in which NPG has 50 per cent stake, Cosco Pacific and OOCL 20 per cent each and SDIC 10 per cent, will start by developing Berth 7 at Phase 4 of Beilun Container Terminal at a cost of US$140 mill. It will be OOCL’s first investment in a Chinese port. The 310m berth, with a depth alongside of 15m and back up area of 150,000 m 2 , will have annual handling capacity of 500,000 TEU. Basic construction work is to be completed by the end of this year. The other four berths will be built at the adjoining Phase 5 of Beilun Container Terminal, approval for which is awaited from the central government. The investment in the four berths, with quay length of 1300m and annual handling capacity of 2 mill TEU, is under negotiation. Ningbo handled a record 4 mill TEU last year, up 44 per cent, and throughput grew 28 per cent to 2.31 mill TEU in the first half of this year. Throughput is expected to increase to 8 mill TEU/year by 2010 and analysts say existing facilities and ongoing projects will easily satisfy future demand. Nine berths are being built at Phases 3 and 4, which will boost capacity by 4.5 mill TEU, while China Merchant Holdings International’s four-berth project under Phase 5 will add another 2 mill TEU of capacity. A joint venture of Taiwan’s Evergreen Marine is building a two-berth terminal at a cost of US$250 mill with an annual capacity of 1 mill TEU, while ajoint venture of NPG and Hutchison Port Holdings is converting a one-berth coal terminal into a container facility at Phase 2 next to Hutchison’s three-berth Ningbo Beilun International Container Terminals. Mediterranean Shipping Company is building a two-berth facility in a joint venture with NPG, which is expected to come on stream this year. Box scanner for Batangas The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) is going ahead with plans to purchase the country’s first container scanner for the recently completed Phase II of Batangas port ,110 km south of Manila. The main point under study is whether to go for the gamma-ray or an X-ray type (mobile or fixed). It looks like the group will recommend the latter as it has a penetration depth of 400mm maximum versus only 136 mm in the case of gamma-ray machines. A PPA official says an X-ray scanner is likely to cost US$5.35 mill, but the amount can be covered by the balance from the ¥14.6 bill (US$131.7 mill) loan secured by the Philippines government from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation to finance the construction of Phase II. No public bidding will be conducted as the ports agency will only be issuing a variation order as part of the Phase II project completed in July by Shimizu and its local partner. The PPA will probably take the same route for its plan to acquire a vessel traffic management system for Batangas following the recent installation of a VTMS at Manila. ICTSI had previously announced that it would acquire at least four container scanners for its Manila International Container Terminal, but nothing more has been heard about the plan. The only scanners installed thus far at the port are three small passenger luggage scanners purchased by Asian Terminals, Inc for its South Harbor domestic passenger/cargo terminal. September 2005
PORT NEWS APM Terminals for Dunkirk The Dunkirk Port Authority (PAD) has selected APM Terminals (APMT) to take over the management of the NFTI-ou container terminal. APMT was one of four companies reported to have responded to PAD’s tender for the underutilised deepwater facility in the western harbour, the others being DPI, CMA-CGM and Australia’s IIM (see WorldCargo News July 2005, p4). APMT parent company AP Møller- Maersk is already involved in Dunkirk through ro-ro operator Norfolkline, Maersk Logistics and DailyFresh Logistics, while Maersk Sealand’s AE7 and TA3 strings call at NFTI-ou. As previously reported, PAD has been searching for a new partner at the terminal since 2003, when IFB reduced its stake by half in order to restructure its operations in Belgium. At the time NFTI-ou was set up in 2001, IFB owned 60 per cent and PAD 40 per cent of the shares, but reluctantly PAD had to increase its stake to 70 per cent. It is not yet clear what stake APMT will take in NFTI-ou, but clearly PAD wants to resume as a minority partner. It says that the agreement with APMT leaves open the possibility of other new shareholders at NFTI-ou. The terminal is expected to handle around 220,000 TEU this year, compared to 200,000 TEU in 2004. One of the objectives of the agreement with APMT Itapoá deal Hamburg-Süd’s Brazilian subsidiary, Aliança Navegação e Logística Ltda, and Grupo Battistella have announced their participation in the building of a new container terminal in Porto de Itapoá in Brazil’s Santa Catarina province. Aliança and Battistella will invest 44 per cent of the US$100 mill required to build the facility, with the remaining 56 per cent supplied by the Inter-American Development Bank . Tecon Santa Catarina (TSC), will be constructed in the Bay of Babitonga near the port of São Francisco do Sul. Container traffic in the Santa Caterina region has been growing recently by 15 per cent/year. The 3-berth TSC is expected to become operational by early 2007 and, with depth of 16m alongside, will reportedly be able to handle vessels with a capacity of up to 9000 TEU. In its first phase TSC will have installed capacity to handle 300,000 containers/ year. Currently around 700,000 containers/year are handled in São Francisco do Sul, Itajaí and Imbituba. Six companies have submitted request for qualification (RFQ) documents to build and operate a second container terminal at Tuticorin port in south India. PSA International. of Singapore in association with South India Corporation Agencies Ltd. (SICAL), its Indian joint venture partner, would appear to have an edge over other likely bidders as they already operate the existing container terminal at Tuticorin. The other bidders are Chettinad Logistics Pvt Ltd., Afcons Infrastructure in conjunction with United Liner Agencies, ABG Heavy Industries, Larsen & Toubro Ltd and Oceanic Transport of the UK. The Indian government’s policy is not to allow a terminal operator to bid for a second container terminal at a port where it is already running the first terminal. However, PSA-SICAL’s concession agreement for the first terminal says it will be allowed to bid for a second container terminal at the port if the port authorities decide to convert Berth 8 into a container terminal (see WorldCargo News June 2005, p10) and it is that berth that the Tuticorin Port Trust (TPT) is offering for the second terminal. TPT believes a second container ter- PAD is hoping that throughput at NFTI-ou will increase to 500,000 TEU/year by 2010 is to increase throughput to at least 0.5 mill TEU/year by 2010. Priorities for investment include three more post-Panamax gantry cranes, to station along the deep water Quai de Flandres extension and realise some of NFTI-ou’s massive potential. Apart from its infrastructural advantages (plenty of land, easy ship access, deep berths, etc), NFTIou is still unique in the context of French maritime container terminals in that it employs all its own crane drivers, stevedores, technical and administraion staff (hence “ou” standing for organisme unifié). Six in for Tuticorin PSA-SICAL, operator of the existing Tuticorin Container Terminal, is the favourite to win the bid for the port’s second terminal minal is required at the port because the first terminal may not be able to handle the growing traffic. The existing terminal has a quay length of 340m, which limits the number of vessels it can receive. In the year to last March, it handled 307,000 TEU registering a growth of 21 per cent over the previous year. Converting Berth 8 into a container terminal is expected to cost Rs1.5 bill (US$34.5 mill). Scheduled to be operational by the end of 2006, it will have a draft of 10.7m and a capacity to handle 450,000 TEU/year. The new concessionaires in Le Havre (Port 2000) and Marseille (Fos 2XL) have been trying to achieve a similar set-up, so that their expensive new cranes are not dependent on port authority drivers and maintenance regimes. Although the AP Møller-Maersk group obviously has opportunities for synergies in lo-lo, ro-ro and inland operations in Dunkirk, it is not clear how NFTI-ou fits into the bigger picture as the group has already taken over operation of the former Flanders Container Terminal in Zeebrugge, just 30-40 km along the coast. Massvlatke 2 tenders The Port of Rotterdam Authority (HBR) has started to invite tenders for the design and construction of Maasvlakte 2, its new port site of (eventually) 2000 hectares to be created alongside the current Maasvlakte. To optimise the logistics of this huge construction project and encourage the most bidders, HBR will combine a large number of operations into one contract. The tendering process is expected to take up to two years and the identity of the bid winner(s) must be known by summer 2007 along with those of the first operators at the new facililities. The Dutch government’s “studies” are continuing. It has already agreed to contribute €50 mill to preliminary work and, once the project gets the definite goahead, will put in another €450 mill in exchange for a one third stake. The Dutch Parliament, for its part, is still investigating whether the HBR is a “reliable partner.” The contract which HBR wants to award is of the design and build type. Key elements include a 3000m long hard seawall, the removal of the 800m long existing hard seawall (where the ships will later sail from Maasvlakte 1 to Maasvlakte 2 via the extended Yangtzehaven), construction of 8000m of soft seawall (artificial sand dunes), spraying on of 275 mill m 3 of sand (enough for the 700 hectares of new terminals to be created in the first phase) and dredging the harbour basin and access channel via the Yangtzehaven. As indicated, HBR wants to organise first phase construction contracts and terminal lease contracts more or less coterminously, as a “launch customer” is a precondition of construction actually proceeding. In June, HBR reported that 15 companies - virtually all of the major international container terminal operators and container shipping lines - had expressed interest in operating a terminal there. Of course, they include lines which are currently customers of ECT. To guard against future traffic losses, ECT is prepared to offer exclusive berths and minority shareholdings in any new concessions it wins at Maasvlatke 2. Fatality in Tacoma ILWU stevedore Kimberly Miles was killed at the Port of Tacoma’s Pierce County container terminal on August 13 when she was struck by a container falling from a vessel while walking along the dock. Local media have published conflicting reports on the cause of the accident with some saying that a “crane malfunction” knocked a container off a deck stow and others suggesting the crane driver had unintentionally hoisted two containers coupled vertically, the bottom one of which knocked another container off the vessel as the trolley was travelling to shore. Pierce County terminal is leased to Evergreen (which owns the cranes at this particular terminal) and is operated for the carrier by Marine Terminals Corp. The Washington Department of Labor and Industries is conducting an investigation into the accident and its report has not been made public. However, WorldCargo News understands that reports of a technical crane malfunction are incorrect. WorldCargo news Cranes | Port Services | Lifttrucks CONTAINER HANDLING EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES Konecranes is your partner to handle containers: STS cranes, RTGs, RMGs, Reachstackers, Toploaders, Forklifts, Positioning systems and Automation. Of course, tailored equipment and services to meet your unique requirements is our speciality. GET THE JOB DONE www.konecranes.com CRANES KCI Special Cranes Corp. | P.O. 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