ICTSI makes its income in the Australian harbour market adjudicating the new container terminal of Melbourne



The terminalista group Philippine International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) has adjudicated the realization and management of new and the third container international terminal of the port of Melbourne entering so for the first time in the Australian harbour market. The relative contest is won by joint venture Victoria International Container Terminal Ltd. (VICTL) that it is participated with 90% from remaining ICTSI and 10% from the Anglo Australian Ports.

"The today's announcement - the minister to the Ports of the Australian State of Victoria has commented, David Hodgett - demonstrates to the confidence answer from the private sector in the harbour planning of the coalition government, that it which second includes a huge investment of 1,6 billion dollars for the expansion of the ability for the container and the motors vehicle in the port of Melbourne let alone the development of the port of Hastings port international container of Victoria. The ulterior ability to traffic guaranteed international container from this new terminal will remarkablly contribute to satisfy the question of increase of the commercial exchanges, included the continuous increase of the exports of the State of Victoria towards Asia and other emerged world-wide markets between which China, Korea and India. What more important - it has emphasized the minister - now in the State of Victoria will be three terminalistiche options on hand of the harbour users and this will increase the competition in the market".

According to the forecasts, the work for the construction of the first phase of the new container terminal, that it will be realized Webb Dock of the port of Melbourne and will include a warehouse of storage of 10 hectares for the container empty to Webb Dock East, will be started in the next few months and will be completed at the end of 2016. The first phase, that it will have a annual ability to traffic pairs to 350 thousand teu, previews the construction of a dock of 330 linear meters equipped with three cranes ship-to-Shore post-Panamax and of 23,7 hectares of terminalistiche areas and storage. The terminal will be able to receive portacontainer of ability until 8.000 teu. The second phase of the project, that it will be completed within end 2017, previews the realization of a second dock of 330 linear meters equipped of two crane post-Panamax. Once completed, the terminal will per year have a traffic ability pairs to 1,4 million teu and a storage capability of empty containers pairs to 280 thousand teu.

The investment previewed for the realization of the new Australian terminal piles to 550 million dollars (USA 510 million dollars). The new system will create 200 new places of work. "What more important - minister Hodgett has rimarcato - the new terminal will contribute to safeguard ulteriorly beyond job 15.900 places that gravitates on the port of Melbourne".

The concession contract, that he has been undersigned today, will have term in 2040. "This new concession - it has evidenced the responsible for the Asia-Appease area of ICTSI, Christian R. Gonzalez - not only represents an important milestone for ICTSI because it is our first concession in Oceania, but also because one of the little true total operators with terminal in the six continents returns us".

We remember that in the shortlist of the contest which won from ICTSI-Anglo Ports they figured also the consortium constituted from the French shipowning group CMA CGM with branch ANL Container Linens and the Macquarie Specialised Asset Management Ltd., the terminalista group Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) and the harbour society and logistic Australian Qube Holdings Ltd. ( on 2 May 2013).