APM Terminals will manage a new container terminal in the Turkish port of Petkim



Terminalista society APM Terminals of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk has signed an agreement with the petrochemical society Turkish Petkim Holding Petrokimya, society controlled with 51% of the vital one from the The Is been Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), and with its branch Petlim Limancilik for the development and the management of the traffic of the several container and the goods in the port of Petkim, to Aliag on the Bay of Nemrut, a resort near Izmir.

The agreement, that it assigns to APM Terminals the management of the port for 28 ulterior years with option for four years until 2046, previews an initial investment of 350-400 million dollars in order to realize a terminal that an ability to traffic of the container of 1,5 million will have per year teu, pairs to beyond 50% in more regarding the current ability to the port of Izmir, with the possibility to increase the ability to three million teu.

The draught to the dock of the new terminal, that it will be long 700 meters, will be of -16 meters. The first 350 linear meters of dock will be realized in 2013, while others 350 meters will be completed the next year. The several activity of handling of goods instead will be started in the end of this year. The areas of handling and storage of the terminal and the railway terminal will cover an area of 53 hectares.

"Turkey - the managing director of APM Terminals has commented, Kim Fejfer - is a market a lot important in strong increase in which we are very pleased to make the income with SOCAR, a very solid and estimated partner". "Localization of the port of Petkim, its access at the market and its deep natural backdrops - it has observed the managing director of APM Terminals for the European region, Martin Poulsen - constitute a winning combination that will redefine the Turkish portualità".

"Ill-fatedly - it has found the managing director of SOCAR, Kenan Yavuz - the harbour ability to Turkey is not unfortunately sufficient to hold the step with the increasing asks of one of the economies developing more fast increase of the world. The development of the port of Petkim will supply to the Aegean region and Turkey the ability absolutely necessary in order to attract a greater quota foreign trade".

"We have constituted the Petkim Limancilik AS - Yavuz has explained - in order to improve the port of Petkim and in order to make of the greatest integrated port of Turkey to service of the fields of the petrochemical one, the several container and the goods". "We have planned - it has added - to make of Aliaga, more strategic the industrial area of Turkey, the greater integrated logistics center in Turkey through harbour investments in the port of Petkim and other harbour landings place. The Bay of Nemrut is one of the greatest logistics centers of Turkey and has the ability and the depth of water for largest portacontainer of the world. Geographically the Bay of Nemrut is in a privileged position in order to serve the industries of Aegeus and the Mediterranean. We have in program to make of the port of Petkim, with the port of Alsancak, the greatest harbour and logistic center integrated of the E region one of the main logistics centers of the world".