To Amsterdam January Terminals Container it will close down



The activity of the Dutch terminalista society Amsterdam Container Terminals (ACT), that it is characterized by the difficulty at the beginning to acquire stablily important or at least sufficient quotas traffic after the cancellation of the ports of call to the container terminal of the port of Amsterdam of the ships of Grand Alliance of 2010, will stop next 1° January definitively.

The decision is assumed by the group Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), that it has assumed the control of the Dutch terminal in the 2008 through a share swap agreement with shipowning group Japanese NYK and that the precedence has renamed it ACT abandoning denomination of Ceres Paragon Terminals (MIGRANT DETENTION CENTRE) ( on December 22, 2008 and 19 March 2009). HPH among other things stops 98% of the capital stock of Europe Container Terminals (ECT), the Dutch terminalista society that manages container terminal in the port of Amburgo and other terminalistiche structures in Holland, Belgium and Germany.

The cessation of the activity will involve the loss of the job for last the 32 dependent of ACT after in 2010, as a result of the decrease of the activity determined from the abolition of the ports of call to Amsterdam of service EU1 of Grand Alliance ( on 17 November 2009), the organic one of the company was reduced of about 70 units.

The president and managing director of the Harbour Authority of Amsterdam, Dertje Meijer, have expressed compunction for the announcement of the cessation of the activity, but he has granted that "he has been revealed impossible to manage the terminal in profitable way". The Dutch harbour agency has emphasized that the oceanic containerized trade represents however a limited quota the activity of the port of Amsterdam, that is centralized mainly on the energetic produced ones as the coal, hydrocarbons and the biocombustibili: on 38,3 million the tons of goods enlivened by the port of call in the first half of 2012 (+2% on first semester 2011) the goods containerized are piled to sun 1,6 million tons (+12%).

The terminal of Amsterdam Terminals Container has two docks for a total of 1.415 linear meters of approaches with depth of the backdrop of -15 meters and areas for 54,2 hectares. The system has an ability to annual traffic pairs to 1,2 million container teu. The Harbour Authority has confirmed the happened sale of the cranes of ACT dock and has announced that four of the nine cranes of the terminal will be removed in the course of this month. The agency however has emphasized that the terminal, that is situated in the harbour area Amerikahaven, could be used for commercial other asset.