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JNP issues RFQ for
Mega project for Karachi
Box future
fourth box terminal
Karachi Port Trust (KPT) will
structure development, while
been beset by technical difficul- outlined
launch its US$1B Pakistan Deep
Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH)
ties. The dredging work has now
Water Container Port (PDWCP)
of Hong Kong will invest
started, but the estimated cost
project next month (see
US$557M.
has risen to PR19.5B, some for Coega
WorldCargo News September
In the first phase, a 1500m
PR2-2.5B more than the ini-
2007, p12). Underscoring its stra-
quay wall is being built to estab-
tial estimates.
South African transport utility
tegic importance, Prime Minis-
lish the first deep water container
Forecasts of annual through-
Transnet has published full details
ter Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani will
terminal in the country and the
put and statements on annual ca-
of its plans for the container ter-
lay the foundation stone.
western Indian Ocean catering for
pacity have yet to be made pub-
minal at the new integrated port
The cost of the first phase of
ultra-large container vessels.
lic. Karachi, Pakistan’s premier
and industrial complex under
the ambitious project, located at
Initially the terminal will have
port, already has two container
construction at Coega (Ngqura)
the mouth of the existing har-
a draft of 16m alongside a 600m
terminal facilities in operation.
in the Eastern Cape.
bour to the east of Keamari
linear quay, later to be dredged
Karachi International Container
Phase 1 of the container ter-
Groyne, has yet to be technically
down to 18m as the berth is ex-
Terminal (KICT) on the west
minal will have two berths with
authenticated and approved.
tended. The project is scheduled
wharf is operated and managed
a handling capacity of 800,000
However, it is being developed
for completion by 2013.
by HPH, while on the east wharf
TEU a year. This is expected to
under public-private partnership
Although the agreement to
Pakistan International Container
be completed by October this
and it is understood that KPT
build PDWCP was reached over
Terminal (PICT) is owned by
year. Phase two, which will add
will invest US$450M for infra-
two years ago, the project has
Pakistani interests.
another two berths, extend the
Notwithstanding the current A fourth container terminal is to be quay and increase capacity to
downturn in traffic, Jawaharlal
built at JNP, joiningNSICT, Gateway
1.5M TEU, is now not expected
Nehru Port (JNP) has issued a
Terminals India (pictured) and the
Request for Qualifications (RFQ)
government-owned facility
Box handling starts up in Kiel
to be completed until 2015, as the
original plans for fast track de-
for the development of its fourth velopment were shelved because
container terminal. RFQs is 30 April. After evaluation, Regular container handling op- of the economic downturn.
Over 40 domestic and inter- it is expected that five pre-quali- erations began at the German Port Ngqura will have a draft of
national companies, including fied applicants will be shortlisted of Kiel this month with the ar- 16.5m, allowing vessels of up to
APM Terminals, DP World and for the final stage of bidding, sub- rival at the Ostuferhafen of the 9000 TEU to enter the harbour.
PSA International, responded to ject to security clearances. first 100 20ft containers from Riga Transnet Port Terminals (TPT)
the port’s initial Expression of In- The JNP Trust said the suc- on board Unifeeder’s 1,425 TEU has promised that the terminal
terest issued in 2006. cessful bidder for the development VERA RAMBOW. will be its most efficient, with six
The new project will be de- of a330m berth extension project The new container service Liebherr “Megamax” cranes al-
veloped in two phases on a 30- at the government-owned con- between Riga and Kiel is based ready in place and 22 high den-
year build-operate-transfer (BOT) tainer terminal, for which bids on the shipment of ferroalloys sity RTGs from Kalmar.
basis at a total estimated cost of were invited last year (see destined for the west European The new terminal is the first
US$1.3B. On build-out, the facil- WorldCargo News September 2008, and Scandinavian steel industries. in South Africa to acquire
ity will have a total berth length p12), would be barred from par- Baltic Terminal Kiel International Liebherr’s Megamax crane design
of 2,000m with an annual han- ticipating in the new tender, GmbH (BTKI) has secured a
The new service is handled at Kiel’s Ostuferhaven (Picture: P Lühr)
and the third to deploy RTGs,
dling capacity of 4M TEU. either as a single applicant or as a long-term contract to handle the prompting TPT to set a target
The deadline for submission of consortium member. service and anticipates a through- On arrival in Kiel, containers containers are sent back to the performance of 100 moves per
put of around 10,000 TEU in the carrying ferroalloys which have shippers via Kiel and Riga. ship working hour.
first year of operation already been sorted are loaded di- To accommodate the new serv- However, as with port devel-
Colombo in demand
The ferroalloys are produced rectly onto rail, while any un- ice, Seehafen Kiel has invested in a opments elsewhere in the coun-
and loaded into containers in sorted products are sorted in new Gottwald HMK 7608 harbour try, the terminal infrastructure
Kazakhstan in Central Asia. The closed warehouses in the mobile crane. BTKI is responsible will be in place before connect-
A fresh call for bids to build a new to expand the port’s handling ca-
containers are then transported Ostuferhafen. Depending on vol- for landside operations using its ing transport infrastructure is
container terminal at Colombo pacity and enable it to cater for big-
from Kazakhstan on block train ume and destination, on-ship- own mobile equipment, as well as completed. New road and rail
has drawn the interest of some of ger containerships that are too big
services to Riga, where they are ment is by truck or rail and in- for operating the container depot connections are not expected to
the world’s top port operators and for the existing terminals.
loaded onto oceangoing ships des- land waterway options are and sorting the ferroalloys, where be completed until September
shipping lines as well as Sri Lankan The bidding process had been
tined for Kiel. planned for the future. Empty necessary, in the warehouses. 2011 at the earliest.
conglomerates. delayed for over a year after the
Transnet expects the terminal
“All the big players are there,” government cancelled a previous
Work starts on Fujian terminal
to handle 50,000 TEU during its
said a senior Sri Lanka Ports Au- call for bids that drew the interest
first six months of operation, but
thority (SLPA) official. “All the of the top four Sri Lanka-listed
the company is more upbeat
companies which bid the last time, conglomerates as well as big glo- Construction work started last FSICT plans to invest another with Taiwan’s Excalibur Interna-
about its long term future as a
as well as new ones, have collected bal port operators. month on a Yuan1.3B (US$190M) Yuan1.8 billion to build two more tional Marine under which
transhipment centre.
the bid documents.” The bids were cancelled over container terminal in east China’s berths in the second phase of the Excalibur will provide between
“With growing pressure on
The request for proposals to disagreements on the winning bid- Fujian province, the first two project in 2011-2012. 500,000 and 800,000 TEU of
the container sector and projec-
build and operate the first termi- der. At that time, a consortium led berths of which are expected to The terminal is located at the cargo to the terminal in the first
tions that demand for container-
nal in a new deep-draft harbour by Singapore’s PSA International, begin operations in 2010. Sandu’Ao port district in Ningde two years of its operations.
ised cargo will double over the
being built next to the existing Co- in which local conglomerate Aitken It is being built by Fujian port, which is 200 km north of At present the Taiwanese ship-
next eight years, Transnet has in-
lombo port was issued by the SLPA Spence was a member, was chosen Sandu’Ao International Container Xiamen and 126 miles from Tai- ping firm, set up last year, oper-
vested in excess of R8B to date
last month (see WorldCargo News by the government negotiating Terminal Co (FSICT), a joint ven- wan’s Keelung port. ates only one vessel - the 2,292dwt
to position Ngqura as South Af-
February 2009, p6). team, but the SLPA preferred ture between China-based Lissom Despite the uncertain market ferry OCEAN LALA.
rica’s flagship terminal,” said
The project, known as the Co- Hutchison Port Holdings of Hong Group and Singapore’s China In- situation in the container shipping The company said it plans to
TPT’s chief of operations, Solly
lombo South Harbour, is designed Kong which bid on its own. dustrial Investment Holdings. sector, FSICT has signed a deal start its first container service in
Letsoalo.
April this year and will specialise
Annual capacity on full build-
in China-Taiwan cargo.
out will be 2M TEU.
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