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The port of the Pireo doubles the traffic of the container
Last year the Greek port of call has enlivened 1.680.133 teu regarding 878.083 teu in 2010
January 27, 2012
The Harbour Authority of the Pireo has announced that in the 2011 container terminal to the Pier of the managed Greek port from the same agency container has enlivened a traffic 500.133 pairs to teu. The harbour agency work the terminal from june 2010 and is not therefore possible a comparazione between the volume of traffic enlivened altogether last year regarding that totaled in 2010.
The Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) however has specified that the volume enlivened from own terminal in the period june-December of 2011 has turned out advanced of 54.5% regarding the correspondent period of 2010. The traffic of transhipment of the period has been pairs to 254.336 teu, in increase of 88.2% regarding 135.418 teu in the period june-Decembers of 2010. Moreover the productivity of the terminal is increased of 34.6% going up from 104,1-140,4 movements to the hour.
We remember that the other container terminal of the port of the Pireo, situated to Pier II with widening forecast on Pier III of the Greek port of call, is managed by on October 1°, 2009 by Piraeus Container Terminal KNOWS (PCT), society integrally controlled from terminalista group Chinese COSCO Pacific Ltd.
"In spite of world-wide the economic crisis - it has commented the president and managing director of the PPA, Yiorgos Anomeritis - the port of the Pireo is recovering own precedence rhythm. In 2011 both the terminals to Piers I and II that are time managed from the PPA and the PCT have enlivened 1.680.133 teu, of which 500,133 by PPA and 1.180.000 by PCT, regarding 878.083 teu in 2010 (respective 194,083 for PPA and 684,000 for PCT). They are figures that bring back the container terminal of the Pireo to an international level are in the Mediterranean that in Europe. These data align the Pireo per year record of 2003, with good perspectives of increase for both the operators for 2012".
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The Harbour Authority of the Pireo has announced that in the 2011 container terminal to the Pier of the managed Greek port from the same agency container has enlivened a traffic 500.133 pairs to teu. The harbour agency work the terminal from june 2010 and is not therefore possible a comparazione between the volume of traffic enlivened altogether last year regarding that totaled in 2010.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
