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Rejected to two resources against the allocation of the new Moin Container Terminal to APM Terminals
The start of the construction of the system will happen the next year
August 7, 2012
The Administrative court of San Jose, in Costa Rica, has rejected to two resources introduced from the Sindicato de Trabajadores de Japdeva y Afines Portuarios (Sintrajap) and from the Cámara Nacional de Bananeros (Canaba) against the allocation to terminalista society Dutch APM Terminals of the concession of the new container terminal of Moin to Puerto Limón, contract that has been undersigned a year makes ( on 31 August 2011). The judges have established that the contractual agreement anticipates environmental requirement, economic, technical and financial necessary in order to attribute the concession to the Dutch company of shipowning group A.P. Møller-Mærsk.
Paul Gallie, managing director of APM Terminals Moin, has emphasized that the sentence of the court "confirmation the transparency and the legality of the concession procedure. Moreover - he has added - he demonstrates to the experience and the professionality of APM Terminals in competing and winning the concession 33-year-old in order to plan, to finance, to construct, to manage and to manutenere the Moin Container Terminal (TCM)".
"The implementation of the project of the TCM - it has continued Gallie - is currently in course and during this period of transition APM Terminals it will realize the detailed environmental and ingegneristici studies demanded in order to produce the final project and to obtain necessary allowed and the licences. These will be subordinates to the governmental approval before the start of the construction in 2013".
The investment previewed by APM Terminals is of 992,2 million dollars. The first phase of the project, realized on an area of 40 hectares, includes the construction of two docks for 600 linear meters of approaches equipped with six crane of super dock post-Panamax, with backdrop of -16 meters, and of a outer dam of 1.500 meters. The entire project will be realized on an area of 80 hectares and altogether previews five docks for 1,500 linear meters of approaches with nine crane of super dock post-Panamax let alone the completion of the dam for a total of 2,2 kilometers.
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