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The second phase of the sixth container terminal of the port of Kaohsiung will become operating in June 2014
The system is managed by the KMCT of the Yang Ming group
September 25, 2012
The second phase of the International Container Terminal (INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY), the sixth container terminal of the port of Kaohsiung, will become operating in June 2014. The terminal is managed by Kao Ming Container Terminal Corp. (KMCT), society integrally controlled from the shipowning group taiwanese Yang Ming who has undersigned on September 28, 2007 the relative contract of concession with the Kaohiung Harbor Bureau (agency successively transformed in Taiwan International Ports Corporation - TIPC) ( on 28 September 2007).
On the docks the 108 and 109 of the INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY operating activities are begun in January 2011 and last year the terminal has enlivened a traffic pairs to 1,06 million container teu. In the first eight months of the 2012 traffic it is piled to 720 thousand teu. With the second phase of the project, that it previews the construction of docks 110 and 111, the preparation of areas of storage and other buildings and infrastructures, the annual ability to traffic of the terminal INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, that it will have four docks for total 1,500 linear meters of approaches (regarding current the 960 meters) with a depth of the -16 backdrop meters, will go up to about three million teu.
While the government of Taipei is defining in these days the five-year plan of investments in the national ports that will reserve to the total ports of call resources for 66 billion dollars of Taiwan (USA 2,2 billion dollars), of which classified 65% to the port of Kaohsiung and destined among other things to the realization of a bonded area of 65 hectares, to the construction of the second phase of the project of the INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY and to other participations. To completion of the program the ability to traffic of the container of the taiwanesi ports will go up per year to 18 million teu.
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The second phase of the International Container Terminal (INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY), the sixth container terminal of the port of Kaohsiung, will become operating in June 2014. The terminal is managed by Kao Ming Container Terminal Corp. (KMCT), society integrally controlled from the shipowning group taiwanese Yang Ming who has undersigned on September 28, 2007 the relative contract of concession with the Kaohiung Harbor Bureau (agency successively transformed in Taiwan International Ports Corporation - TIPC) 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
