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The container terminal of TNMSC in the port of the Havre will become operating at the beginning of 2012
The investment piles to 160 million euros
November 24, 2011
The new container terminal in the area harbour Port 2000 of the Havre of joint venture TNMSC, constituted from the terminalista society French Terminaux de Normandie (Perrigault group) and from the shipowning group Helvetic Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), will become operating at the beginning of the next year. In the French port Terminaux de Normandie and MSC they are you anticipate also with joint venture SETO.
The managing director of MSC France, Stephan Snijders, has expressed satisfaction for the delivery of before the three docks of the new terminal at the beginning of 2012, while the others will be completed in the course of the year: "the new structures - it has emphasized - will allow with our ships larger than to benefit than a guaranteed draught of 16 meters. This, quite undoubtedly, will carry an increase of the activity and a development of MSC to the Havre".
"The realization by TNMSC of main a hub for the MSC in the area Port 2000 of the Havre - the managing director of TNMSC, Christian de Tinguy has confirmed - marks a new phase of the development of the activity of the company to the Havre. The realization of the dock of 1.400 meters, that it represents for TNMSC-SETO a total investment of 160 million euros, will allow to MSC of being able to make to scale the same dock with any meteorological condition and of tide to any ship of own fleet, included the units from 14.000 teu. The number of places of work generated from the terminalistica activity will be online with the wait increase of the traffic".
Currently to the Havre group MSC gives job altogether to 240 people.
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