<strong>WorldCargo</strong> news Bathside Bay gets green light The UK government has given the formal go-ahead for Hutchison Ports (UK) to develop a new container terminal at Bathside Bay, to be known as Harwich International Container Terminal (HICT). The announcement comes just three months after the government issued its “minded to approve” decision for this controversial project, subject to clarification on a number of points (<strong>WorldCargo</strong> <strong>News</strong>, January 2006 pp18-20). This is likely to be of some concern to the Port of London Authority and P&O Ports (now DP World) and Shell. The green light has still not been given for the London Gateway container/ ro-ro terminal and logistics park project at the former Shellhaven in the Thames Estuary, even though the “minded to approve” letter in this case was published in January 2005. Conditions imposed on HPUK for HICT to proceed include provision of compensatory habitat at nearby Hamford Water, under the EU’s Habitat Directive, <strong>WorldCargo</strong> news VOLUME 13 NUMBER 4 • ISSN 1355-0551 Hutchison’s uncontroversial FSR scheme got the go-ahead last month EDITORIAL: CHRIS MUNFORD • PUBLISHING DIRECTOR E-Mail: cmunford@worldcargonews.com VINCENT CHAMPION • EDITORIAL DIRECTOR E-Mail: vchampion@worldcargonews.com PAUL AVERY - ASIA PACIFIC EDITOR E-Mail: pavery@worldcargonews.com JOHN BANKS - CONSULTING EDITOR E-Mail: jbanks@worldcargonews.com ADVERTISING: SIMON PESKETT • ADVERTISEMENT DIRECTOR E-Mail: speskett@worldcargonews.com MIKE FORDER • COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR E-Mail: mforder@worldcargonews.com STEPHEN CATCHPOLE • BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER E-Mail: scatchpole@worldcargonews.com JAYANA AUSTIN • ASSISTANT ADVERTISEMENT MANAGER E-Mail: jaustin@worldcargonews.com ADMINISTRATION & CIRCULATION: GILL TILBURY • SALES & MARKETING COORDINATOR E-Mail: gtilbury@worldcargonews.com NICCI VIGORITO • MARKETING ASSISTANT E-Mail: nvigorito@worldcargonews.com ITALY AGENT: GENERAL ADVERTISING MEDIA & EXHIBITIONS SRL Telephone: +39 010 589752 Fax: +39 010 562193 E-Mail: gamesrl@gamesrl.com JAPAN AGENT: HIDEO NAKAYAMA, NAKAYAMA MEDIA INTERNATIONAL INC. 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Postmaster: Send address changes to WCN Publishing c/o Mercury Airfreight International Ltd, 365 Blair Road, Avenel, NJ 07001 Entire contents © WCN Publishing 2006 and upgrade of the A120 road between Hares Green and Harwich. “Although we have secured the necessary approvals to construct the container terminal,” said HPUK’s CEO Chris Lewis,“permission is still needed for the required upgrade to the A120. Securing these consents will, inevitably, take some time. “Work needs to have begun on the road upgrade before we are allowed to start construction work on the first phase of the Bathside Bay project.This will not be possible before 2009, at the earliest.” HICT will provide simultaneous berthing for four large container ships along 1400m of deep water quay, with a depth of 15m alongside and with 11 ship-toshore gantry cranes. Storage capacity will be 52,000 TEU and dynamic capacity 1.7M TEU/year. It will have an on-dock intermodal railhead. The “minded to” reasoning makes clear that intermodal rail is expected to account for about 22.5% of inland distribution. In practice rail is used for distribution to the English Midlands and northern Britain. HPUK argues that the Haven cluster, including HICT and its uncontroversial Felixstowe South Reconfiguration that got the official go-ahead last month (1000m of new quay with 9-10 cranes) will be the only UK hub capable of providing sufficient volumes to support daily shortsea feeder services to the main feeder ports.“The increased use of feeder sailings will help relieve the pressure on the country’s busy road network,” says HPUK. The assumption in the “minded to” reasoning is that 24% of HICT’s throughput will be seato-sea transhipment moves. Overall demand over the Haven cluster is forecast to be 4.065M TEU by 2010 rising to 5.317M TEU by 2020. Even if one assumes not only that sea-to-sea accounts for 24% but also that it is all coastwise and none of it is non-British o/d traffic, and further assumes a generous 25% rail share of inland moves, this means 1.5M FEU truck trips/year by 2020. ● A public hearing into Mersey Docks & Harbour Company’s £80M post-Panamax container terminal project in the Port of Liverpool will commence on 26 April. Eleven years since Le Havre’s lockless Port 2000 container terminal project was first unveiled, of which no less than seven were taken up by various technical and feasibility studies, environmental permits, etc.The site at the mouth of the Seine is a particularly sensitive one and no less than 5% of the total budget of E1B has been spent on habitat protection and other environmental concerns. But at last it’s a reality. At the end of March, the first 2-berth terminal, named Terminal de France (TdF) and operated by CMA-CGM affiliate GMP, was officially inaugurated. The 700m long quay has a depth of 14.5m alongside at any state of the tide and is equipped with six 22-wide cranes from ZPMC on a 35m rail gauge and twin 40ft hoists. TdF was further delayed by the > 5-year conflict over who employs the crane drivers - the port authority (PAH) or the terminal operators who have financed all the cranes and other superstructures, but at last the “win-win” compromise formula promoted by PAH (<strong>WorldCargo</strong> <strong>News</strong>, February 2006, p32) finally seems to have won out. The second 2 x 350m berth module, called Terminal Porte Océane (TPO) and operated by Terminaux de Normandie (AMP Terminals) is now expected to open on schedule, in the second half of 2007. Both GMP and Terminaux de Normandie have options on a third 350m berth module. Up to six more 350m berths with associated backlands can be built at Port 2000 and PAH’s president Jean-Pierre Leconte has stated that the port’s aim is to double container throughput to 4M TEU/year by 2010.An option on the third terminal has already been taken by MSC, in association with Terminaux de Normandie. A weak point for le Havre remains inland distribution, with road accounting for 85%. Despite improvements in the local road network, it faces saturation.As also previously reported (<strong>WorldCargo</strong> <strong>News</strong>, February 2006, p32), inland distribution overtook inland rail for the first time in 2005 (98,000 TEU against 95,000 TEU), but direct barge access to Port 2000 is not yet possible, due to failure to agree on a new canal lock costed at €150M. Starting next year, trials will be carried out with river-sea self-propelled barges, on the Zeebrugge model. A new on-dock intermodal railhead, equipped with a ZPMC RMG (a second arrives next year) has been set up at Terminal de France.This will be operated by a mixed company under the rubric of SIATH. The French track authority, RFF, is investing €92M to improve train formation capabilities and main line access. However, PAH’s long hopes of a direct rail link to eastern France/Germany that would bypass the congested Paris region remain unfulfilled. ● In January the Port of La Rochelle-La Pallice joined the ranks 8-52 to. used container forklift trucks and terminal equipment Forklift trucks, reachstackers and terminal equipment Cap. Type Year Liftheight 8 t. Svetruck ECS42/5H 01 12500 mm 8 t. SMV SL6ECA 00 17890 mm 10 t. Kalmar DC10-600 87 5500 mm 12 t. Svetruck 1260-30 99 5500 mm 15 t. Kalmar 15120-35 02 4000 mm 16 t. Svetruck 16120-38 96 4000 mm 16 t. Svetruck 16120-38 04 4500 mm 18 t. SMV SL18-1200A 95 3000 mm 25 t. Svetruck 25120-45 92 4000 mm 25 t. SMV SL25-1200A 99 5000 mm 28 t. Svetruck 28120-45 full free lift 99 5500 mm 30 t. LMV 30D 76 5000 mm 42 t. Kalmar DC42-1200 triplex 87 7050 mm 45 t. Svetruck 45120-57 94 7000 mm N.C.NIELSEN A/S · DK-7860 BALLING · DENMARK TEL. +45 99 83 83 83 · FAX +45 97 56 46 24 www.nc-nielsen.dk · linde@nc-nielsen.dk PORT NEWS Le Havre’s Port 2000 project inaugurated CMA-CGM’s TOSCA makes the inaugural call at Terminal de France Cap. Type Year Liftheight Reachstackers 10 t. SMV SC108TA6 03 15800 mm 41 t. Linde C4130TL5 97 15900 mm 45 t. CVS/Ferrari 178H1 94 14700 mm 46 t. Hyster RS46-30IH 96 14750 mm Terminal tractors 17 t. Mafi MTL17 swapbodymover 97 630 mm 25 t. Douglas NS8/220/4 4x4 92 1000 mm 25 t. Terberg TT20 4x4 97 1000 mm 25 t. Terberg TT20 4x2 97 1000 mm 32 t. Sisu TRX191 4x4 99 1000 mm 34 t. Terberg YT220 4x2 01 1000 mm 34 t. Terberg TT222 4x2 02 1000 mm 35 t. Kalmar TA3544 4x4 95 1000 mm 36 t. Mafi MT36R 4x4 97 1000 mm ncnielsen of France’s premier ports, the ports autonomes. This means the state becomes directly involved in the port’s projects. The port is investing €8M this year (50% up on 2005), notably in new equipment.Three old grab cranes are being replaced by a single new crane with a capacity of 700 tph. Work on a 160m quay extension with 10 hectares of backland has been started. It should be completed in 2008. Vladivostock gears up Russia’s Far East Port of Vladivostok has been acquiring new handling machinery and upgrading existing handling equipment.The port has signed a contract with Gottwald PortTechnology for two HMK 170 EG harbour mobile cranes for 4-rope grabbing, for delivery this year. Last year the port acquired two new Bromma spreaders for its container cranes, and Noell in Germany supplied it with components to upgrade its two Sokol portal cranes. Two 1.5t and two 4t FLTs from Toyota were acquired, while Potecs Corp in Korea delivered five lifting magnets for handling scrap and pig-iron. Uneco, one of the stevedores in the port, acquired two Mantsinen rubber-tyred hydraulic cranes on Cat excavator platforms, equipped with scrap and timber grabs.Two reach stackers are due to be delivered shortly. The separate Vladivostock Fishing Seaport was also active on the equipment side, acquiring four Kirovets wharf cranes from SevMorMontage for a total price of €1.1M. Under their respective renewal programmes for 2005- 2015, the two ports plan to form specialised handling divisions. Riga plan The Port of Riga plans to invest US$88M in a new container terminal on the northern part of the island of Kundzinsala. This will require Latvian Railways to build a new line, as the exisitng lines are on the south side of the island. General manager Leonid Loginov says the project will enjoy EU loan support, but the private sector will also be called on to invest substantially. Informal talks have been held with Chinese and Russian firms, but a European tender will have to be organised. Loginov believes the north side of the island is the right place for development. The existing container terminal, Baltic Container Terminal (BCT), is on the south side and is only 50% utilised. Presently there are two major stevedores operating on Kundzinsala, BCT and Man-Tess. 4 April 2006
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