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SOUTH AFRICA Ngqura Container Terminal Posts Record Performance he new Ngqura Container Terminal (NCT) operated by Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) Thas started the year with impressive operational performance, the highest since its opening in October 2009. During January 2011 shifts working at the terminal consistently achieved 28 Moves per Gross Crane Hour (GCH). GCH is the common measure of productivity in the container handling business and represents the number of containers each crane moves per hour. NCT also enjoyed growth in container volumes. January 2011 saw the terminal handle 30 879 Twenty Foot Equivalent Units (TEU's) of which 4 930 was imports, 6 934 exports while 18 985 was transhipment cargo destined for other regional ports. A TEU (twenty foot equivalent unit) is the standard measure of container volumes, usually the volume of a 20 foot or six metre shipping container. The terminal's previous highest GCH was achieved in December 2009, just two months after opening, when operators topped 25GCH handling container volumes of 4 748 TEUs. TPT's Eastern Cape terminal executive manager Siya Mhlaluka said NCT's GCH Above and Inset: The Ngqura Container Terminal performance had been made possible by teamwork, additional staff and improvements in vessel and yard planning. The Terminal which celebrated its first There was also the possibility for “It is pleasing to witness that as volumes anniversary in October 2010, has also dredging of the quayside to take place so grow the performance of our operations embarked on an expansion programme that two additional berths could be teams also improves. We want to offer a of its berth facilities. introduced. This would increase capacity consistently excellent service to all our Port operator Transnet Port Terminals from the existing 800,000 TEUs to 2 clients, by ensuring quick turnaround of (TPT) said the creation of an additional million TEUs and make the terminal a vessels. Already these great improve- 100m of berth space over the next few four-berth facility. ments are the result of teamwork and months would allow the terminal to But TPT said this would be dictated by integrated planning systems among all simultaneously berth two large vessels of port landlord Transnet National Ports key role players to enable an efficient 305m each in length. Authority, which governs the 60 hectare service offering, ” he said. Currently NCT is able to berth one 305m Port of Ngqura. The terminal has employed 376 opera- vessel and one 275m vessel at the same TPT chief operating officer Nosipho tional staff who are split over three shifts. time. The expansion is scheduled for Damasane said, “Volumes have far This excludes support services staff. completion by July 2011. outstripped projections during the Our Ports 9 | 22
SOUTH AFRICA exports,” he said. TPT's projection is to handle 409,659 TEUs by the end of the financial year. TPT acting chief executive Karl Socikwa said the volumes proved the success of Transnet's strategy of positioning the port as a major transhipment hub for the region. “The Port of Ngqura is ideally located at the centre of trade routes for both African and global markets,” he said. “Our strategy from the outset has been to position the port as a world class transhipment hub the first of its kind in Southern Africa as a means of growing the economy and bringing additional trade to our shores.” Socikwa said Transnet shared the bullish business sentiment and projections of its anchor customers at Ngqura, the two shipping lines MSC and MOL SA. Both had been instrumental in ramping up performance at the terminal, directing how operations would be deployed, and assisting Transnet with planning and training. The lines were together running 8 line services per week through Ngqura. Damasane said other customers had expressed keen interest in bringing business to Ngqura after observing the stellar performance of the terminal in its first year. She said negotiations were well underway but were at a sensitive stage and details could not be divulged. The MSC Catania was then the first commercial vessel to berth at the terminal on 4th October 2009, followed two days later by the 275m MSC Shanghai. On 1st November 2009, the MOL Delight made its historic arrival at the Port of Ngqura as the first MOL vessel to call at the Ngqura Container Terminal. Damasane said the container terminal was “more than recovering its investment” and was “the pride of South African ports.” Of R10 billion(USD 1.4 billion) spent on development of the entire Port of Ngqura, between R2.5 and R3 billion container terminal's first year of TEUs from October 2009 to October (USD 420.4 million) had been spent on operation. Year to date figures show 259 2010, of which 61% was transhipment the container terminal only. vessels handled since October 2009 with cargo brought into South Africa for Productivity during the first month of an average of 1,100 TEUs each.” transfer to other vessels and ports. The operation had averaged 20 GCH (gross “NCT has handled a total of 288,812 remaining 31% was a mix of imports and container moves per hour). photos: Transnet Port Terminals Our Ports 9 | 23
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