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Ground broken at Huizhou
Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) and “HQCT will be the first dedicated HPH invested in Huizhou Port Indus-
Huizhou Port Affairs Group Company container terminal in Huizhou and is one trial Corporation.
broke ground this month on two 50,000t of the largest investment projects for An expressway network and two ma-
container berths at Huizhou Quanwan HPH since we began participating in the jor railway arteries - the Beijing-Kowloon
International Container Terminals development of Huizhou port in 2005,” and Guangzhou-Meizhou-Shantou lines -
(HQCT), which will be Huizhou’s first said James S Tsien, managing director of connect HQCT to the Pearl River Delta
dedicated container terminal. Hutchison Ports China. and manufacturing hinterlands along the
Located in eastern Guangdong, some “Huizhou possesses excellent natu- railways and will allow cargo to be trans-
74 km from Shenzhen, HQCT will have ral deep water conditions and is located ported efficiently to HQCT for shipment
a total berth length of 800m with a depth within close proximity of the well-de- to worldwide destinations via feeder and
alongside of 15.2m and a yard area of 60 veloped manufacturing hinterland of long-haul services.
hectares. On build-out, it will have an eastern Guangdong,” he said.
annual capacity of 1M TEU/year and will Containers are currently handled at
The Huizhou groundbreaking ceremony was
help transform Huizhou from a container multi-purpose berths in the Quanwan
attended by over 400 guests from the municipal
feeder port and a terminal handling bulk Port Zone, where two ZPMC ship-to-
government and local enterprises, as well as
and non-containerised cargo into one of shore cranes were installed in 2006 after executives from the port and shipping industries
South China’s leading container ports.
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The Port of Long Beach is reported to
be in the process of issuing an RFP for a
pilot Maglev system as part of a long term
project to develop an electric container
movement system (ECMS) to carry con-
tainers from the docks to DCs as far as
200 miles inland.
When American Maglev submitted an
unsolicited proposal to build a pilot sys-
tem from Pier A to the near-dock
Intermodal Container Transfer Facility at
no cost to the port, the port decided to
proceed with an RFP.
Portal Harbour Cranes at the Port of T
At the same time the Port of Los An-
geles (POLA) has been working through
the Southern California Association of
Government’s Goods Moving Taskforce
to develop a broader transport policy that
supports an ECMS as an alternative to
upgrading the 710 freeway. POLA has
retained its own consultant to advise on
right-of-way issues around connecting the
southern terminus of an ECMS to its
marine terminals.
Los Angeles Board of Harbor Com-
missioners President David Freeman ex-
pressed frustration that stakeholders are
not working together through a common
process and that the project is not “shovel
ready,” which would enable it to com-
pete for funding as part of President
Obama’s infrastructure stimulus package.
“We need to decide on what we want
to get built and lobby for the money to
build it,” he said at a Harbor Commis-
sion meeting. “LA has 10 reviewers for
every doer and we are getting the dis-
ease of studying and studying. We have
to have a transportation system run on
renewable electricity.”
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The Anglo-Swiss Zumax AG group has
been awarded a 35 year concession by the
Albanian government to develop and
operate a new container terminal in the
south west of the country.
The €1.18B (US$1.55B) terminal will
be built at the Port of Vlora, 140 km south
For professional bulk handling
west of the Albanian capital, Tirana. Con-
“
struction is expected to start in April or
you need customer-orientated
May this year and to be completed in four
years, according to Kevin Paja, the group’s
representative in Tirana. solutions.
On build-out, the new terminal will
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have an annual capacity of 3M TEU and
be capable of accommodating the largest
containerships in service.
Concurrent with the construction of
the container terminal, Zumax will also
build a Free Trade Zone industrial park
adjacent to the port.
At present, all Albanian container traf-
fic is channelled through the port of
Durres, some 29 kilometres from Tirana.
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Albania region.
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