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Ngqura investment trimmed
Work on developing some parts of the new simulator, in Transnet’s driver recruitment project leader, Ester Goosen, said, “Vol-
port of Ngqura (Coega) in South Africa and training programme. umes through all of South Africa’s har-
have been suspended because of the global With the planned aluminium smelter bours have dropped, with the existing
economic slowdown. The project’s budget project now again shelved, Transnet has harbour in Port Elizabeth having experi-
has been cut by R1B, so several adminis- tried to promote Ngqura as a container enced a reduction since late last year be-
tration buildings, the planned tug jetty and transhipment port, but container volumes cause of the global economic downturn.
the expected extension of the container in Southern Africa as a whole are ex- The drop off has occurred very suddenly
quay have been shelved. pected to fall in the near future. and there is uncertainty as to when a re-
However, the core parts of the port Transnet figures indicate that cargo covery will take place.
project are on course for completion by turnover at the port of Port Elizabeth, “None of the projects postponed have
the start of October as planned, while the which lies just 20 km away in the East- yet gone out to tender, so there will be
extension of the quay wall is already un- ern Cape, has fallen by 44% in the past no effect on existing contractors or their
der way and will be finished by 2011. 12 months, so there is not expected to staff,” she added.
Transnet has already invested over be sufficient demand to justify fast-track-
R8B in the Ngqura Container Terminal ing Ngqura. The first two berths at theNgqura Container
(NCT), which is being built on a 60,000 National Port Authority (NPA) Coega Terminal are due to be handed over in June
hectare site and, on build-out, will have a
capacity of 2M TEU/year.
The first two of four planned berths,
with a depth alongside of 16.5m, are due
to be handed over in June, with the sec-
ond two now scheduled for completion
by 2011.
Components for six Megamax ship-
to-shore cranes ordered from Liebherr
and eight of the 22 RTGs ordered from
Kalmar have already been delivered and
are in various stages of erection. Two
RTGs and two quay cranes are due to be
commissioned this month and will be
used, alongside a state-of-the art crane TRAILER DESIGNERS & MANUFACTURERS
CMA CGM in
Lattakia box
terminal deal
French shipping giant CMA CGM has
signed an agreement with Lattakia Port
General Company (LPGC) to manage
and operate a container terminal in the
Syrian port for a period of 10 years, ex-
tendable to 15 years - the same duration
as ICTSI obtained for its concession in
Tartous in November 2006.
The Lattakia terminal will be oper-
ated by a consortium comprising CMA
CGM/Terminal Link, with a 51% stake
and Souria Holding a Syrian limited li-
ability company with the remaining 49%.
Lattakia’s container terminal is located
on a 69 hectare area, has a 972m quay
and a depth range between 11.8m and
13.3m. It handled 570 000 TEU in 2008.
The consortium plans to increase the
terminal’s capacity to 1M TEU/year by
2012 thanks to infrastructure and equip-
ment investments throughout the con-
cession period.
The deal will serve as a strategic base
for CMA CGM, improving its coverage,
ROLLTRAILERS
says Farid Salem, CMA CGM Group’s
GOOSENECKS
chief executive vice president. The con-
sortium takes over in July this year. The
DRAWBAR TRAILERS
line will continue to call at Tartous and
CHASSIS
both ports will be feedered through Malta,
Damietta or Beirut. LIFT TRAILERS
CMA CGM is also pursuing its strat-
egy of investing in container terminals
through its Terminal-Link affiliate in
China, where already stakes have been
taken in various facilities (see WorldCargo
News December 2008, p10).
The company’s deputy vice president,
Asia, Ludovic Rozan, has now stated that
a stake of 20% will be taken in a new
facility in Xingang, which will serve the
Beijing market. Construction work is due
to begin this year and the facility should
enter service in 2011.
Rozan added that CMA CGM is also
interested in the emerging counries of
South East Asia. To this end it has acquired
a 50% stake in a new joint venture with
local Vietnamese partners in the Port of
Haiphong.
SEACOM AG
a71 The Syrian government has granted
ICTSI’s Tartous International Container
Berbiceweg 5
Terminal (TICT) the authority to han-
dle transhipment containers, the first (and
CH - 8212 Neuhausen
so far only) terminal in the country to
Switzerland
handle such traffic.
TICT says that it currently moves con-
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tainers at 18 moves per crane hour using
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two mobile harbour cranes. Productivity
is projected to increase to 25 moves per
www.seacom-marine.ch
hour per crane when two quayside gantry
cranes are installed in June this year.
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