APM Terminals anticipates the innovative characteristics of the new terminal to Maasvlakte II of Rotterdam



Dutch APM Terminals, terminalista society that takes part of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk, has illustrated today the innovations that will characterize the own new terminal in the area Maasvlakte II of the port of Rotterdam, port of call in which the currently company it manages the APM Terminals Rotterdam to the Europahaven descent, terminal that has an ability to annual traffic pairs to 3,4 million container teu and that in 2011 it has enlivened 2.7 million teu.

The new terminal to Maasvlakte II will become operating in November 2014 and in the first phase it will have an ability to traffic of 2,8 million teu. "Our planners of terminal - the managing director of APM Terminals Maasvlakte II has explained, Frank Tazelaar - have worked with the customers, have studied the ports of all the world and have established that the improvement who allows a quality jump is constituted by the optimization of the activities on the large squares container. Too much often - it has found - the productivity of the dock cranes is hindered by activity on the large squares that do not hold the step. The management of the thousands of container that is unloaded or loaded while a ship is in dock is a field on which we are focusing in order to obtain a greater productivity for our customers. We have planned the terminal in order to meanwhile serve largest portacontainer of the world with a productivity and greater level of every day service operating in sure and respectful way of the atmosphere. Our esteem show that we can supply an improvement of the 25-50% of the productivity in favor of our customers regarding terminals planned in conventional way".

The new terminal to Maasvlakte II is planned for it directly uses of the cranes ship-to-Shore for the drainage of the container from the ships and for their positioning on a fleet of average AGVs Lift attendants (Lift attendant Automated Guided Vehicles) that they can transport at the same time two container to the speed of 22 kilometers to the hour from the dock to the storage large square using a system of navigation that carries automated means to deposit the container on a storage grill, by where they are captured by an automated crane on railroads for being transported towards their destination, that it is the railway terminal, a truck or another area of storage.

In the first phase of the terminal to Maasvlakte II it is previewed I use it of 36 AGVs Lift attendants and 128 racks of storage.