Independent journal on economy and transport policy
17:51 GMT+1
This page has been automatically translated by Original news
The Portek group will collaborate to the management of the two main container terminal of the Papua New Guinea
quinquennial Agreement with the png Ports Corporation
December 6, 2012
The group Portek International of Singapore has signed an agreement with the Papua New Guinea Ports Corporation Ltd. (Png Ports Corporation - PNGPCL) based on which it will collaborate with this last to the management of the two main container terminal operated from the PNGPCL in the ports of Lae and Port Moresby for a period five-year-old.
The terminal of Lae, that it is the main port of the Papua New Guinea, enlivens a container traffic pairs to beyond 140 thousand teu per year, while the terminal of the port of Ports Moresby, that it is according to national port of call for traffic volume, enlivens annually beyond 79 thousand teu.
Last year the group of Singapore has supplied to the PNGPCL ten cranes to portal on rubber refurbished that they are employed in the two ports.
"PNGPCL - Stanley Alphonse has explained, managing director of the society that manages all the ports of the Papua New Guinea - has with Portek Systems and Equipment relative a quinquennial agreement to the formation and the technology, based on which the society will supply equipments and staff in order to form our staff".
The understanding previews that Portek Systems and Equipment moreover, branch of the group Portek International, dowries also the two terminals of Lae and Port Moresby of own Terminal Operating System (TOS). At the beginning of the next Portek year it will send nine own attache's in the port of Port Moresby and 12 in that of Lae.
"With this partnership - it has emphasized Alphonse - we preview that the harbour equipments, information the harbour technology and the introduced procedures of harbour management from Portek will transform our terminals of Lae and Port Moresby in container terminal to elevated efficiency, for the benefit of our customers, of our shareholders so as of the economy of the Papua New Guinea".
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
phone: +39.010.2462122, fax: +39.010.2516768, e-mail
VAT number: 03532950106
Press Reg.: nr 33/96 Genoa Court
Editor in chief: Bruno Bellio No part may be reproduced without the express permission of the publisher