Independent journal on economy and transport policy
08:15 GMT+2
This page has been automatically translated by Original news
Agreement between the portuguese government and PSA for the potenziamento of the container terminal of Sines
PSA Sines has ordered three cranes ship-to-Shore to Paceco España
May 5, 2014
The portuguese government has signed today a preliminary agreement with the PSA Corporation of Singapore based on which the Asian terminalista group will upgrade the terminal for containers Terminal de Contentores de Sines (TXXI) that it manages in the port of Sines through branch PSA Sines. Group PSA has expressed intention the intention to invest 89 million euros in the project, that it will allow to per year increase the ability to traffic of the system to 1,7 million container teu, but has asked a delay 15-year-old for the concession contract.
PSA Sines has while given to start to the potenziamento of the container terminal ordering to Paceco España the supply of three new cranes of dock in a position to operating on the large ones portacontainer of new generation of the ability to 18.000 teu. The means of raising will have an ability to 65 tons, a sbraccio that it will allow to cover 24 rows of container and a height under the spreader of 48 meters. The new cranes, whose delivery will begin from the end of the next August, will elevate to nine number ship-to-Shore the means in equipment to the portuguese terminal.
Terminal TXXI has become operating to half 2004 ( on 1° June 2004). In the first trimester of the 2014 container terminal of the port of Sines it has enlivened a traffic pairs to 271.210 teu, with an increment of 43.3% regarding 189.270 teu in the correspondent period last year. In entire the 2013 portuguese port it had enlivened 931,036 teu, with an increase of +68.3% regarding 553.062 teu totaled in the year precedence.
- 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