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Begun the work of modernization of the container terminal APM Terminals Callao
They will have a cost of 307 million dollars altogether
October 5, 2012
In recent days, on the presence of the Peruvian minister of the Transports and the communications, Carlos Paredes, is started the work of modernization of the container terminal on the Muelle Norte of the port of Callao that is managed by the APM Terminals Callao, joint venture between terminalista group Dutch APM Terminals, the compatriot Callao Holding Port and Harbour the Central Peruvian ( on 4 April and 13 May 2011).
The work, that (of which by it they are spold up to now 35 million), will be completed within the end of 2014.
The managing director of APM Terminals, Henrik Kristensen, has announced that the society is investing in the purchase of four cranes of super dock post-Panamax, 23 reach-stacker and 12 cranes to portal on rubber electrical workers, to which joins two crane furnishes post-Panamax of the Peruvian harbour administration. The investment in the terminal previewed from the contract of concession of the duration 30-year-old piles to 749 million dollars.
APM Terminals Callao has assumed the management of terminal in July 2011 and in the first year of activity container has enlivened a traffic 436.117 pairs to teu. In the first eight months of the 2012 APM Terminals Callao it has enlivened a traffic of 258.953 teu, with a bending of 16.2% on the correspondent period of 2011, to which the containerized trade enlivened from DP World Callao joins in the port of Callao, the branch of the DP World group of Dubay that manages the terminal to the Muelle Sur ( on 1° October 2010), than in the first eight months of this year it is piled to 942.652 teu (+28.2%)
Last year the Peruvian ports have enlivened altogether a containerized trade pairs to 1,83 million teu, with an increase of 19.4% on 2010.
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