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Started the work for the widening of the Barcelona Europe South Terminal
the traffic ability will be raised to 2,65 million container teu per year
June 6, 2014
Today in the port of Barcelona the start of the works of widening of the Barcelona Europe South is inaugurated Terminal (BEST) that graces to an investment of 150 million euros by the Terminal Catalunya (Tercat) of the Hutchison Port Holdings group will be concluded in the first half of the next year to which they will join 1,8 million euros by the Harbour Authority ( on 27 January 2014).
The terminal is inaugurated in 2012 and the first phase of the project is realized with an investment of 300 million euros ( on 25 September 2012). Thanks to the new ones the line of dock of the terminal works will go up to 1.500 meters, 500 in more regarding the current length and in a position to receiving five ships at the same time portacontenitori, with a depth of the backdrop of beyond -16 meters. Altogether the terminal will arrange of 11 able cranes of super dock post-Panamax to operate on largest portacontainer in service and of others 54 automated cranes ASC. Operatively the terminal will be able to per year enliven 2,65 million container teu, elevating the total ability to containerized trade of the Catalan port to about 5,5 million teu.
In occasion of the inauguration ceremony the president of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Autur Mas, evidencing that this investment is functional "in order to internationalize the Catalan economy", more autonomy has wished "and more and better infrastructures for the port of Barcelona". Mas has emphasized that "the right to decide of the port of Barcelona is that to take to independent decisions for its normal development" and has exhorted the Spanish central government "to ready being at the right time for that regards infrastructures" of the ports of Barcelona and Tarragona. Mas has remembered that 77% of the foreign trade of the Catalogna pass through the port of Barcelona, than moreover enlivens 27% of the entire commerce with foreign country of Spain.
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Today in the port of Barcelona the start of the works of widening of the Barcelona Europe South is inaugurated Terminal (BEST) that graces to an investment of 150 million euros by the Terminal Catalunya (Tercat) of the Hutchison Port Holdings group will be concluded in the first half of the next year to which they will join 1,8 million euros by the Harbour Authority 
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