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To Rotterdam the container is inaugurated terminal APM Terminals Maasvlakte II
It has a annual ability to traffic pairs to 2,7 million teu that it will be elevated to 4,5 million
April 27, 2015
Friday in the port of Rotterdam is inaugurated the container terminal of society APM Terminals in the harbour area Maasvlakte II, the first terminal for containers to the world in which cranes ship-to-Shore (STS) to remote control are used that they unload the container from the ships and they deliver them to means of large square to automatic guide that transport them from the dock to the storage areas, where a fleet of 54 cranes to portal on track also automated they are charged to place the container, or to the barges or the railway terminal.
The terminal of the company of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk, whose construction is begun in May 2012, occupies an area of 86 hectares and has a dock of 1.000 linear meters equipped with eight cranes STS that guarantee an ability to annual handling pairs to 2,7 million container teu. The project previews an ulterior widening of the terminal that will cover an area total of 180 hectares, will have docks for 2,800 linear meters with depth of the backdrop of -19,65 meters and a annual ability to traffic pairs to 4,5 million teu.
APM Terminals is investing 500 million euros in the new Dutch terminal. In the port of Rotterdam the society of the Danish group manages also terminal APM Terminals Maasvlakte that last year it has enlivened a traffic pairs to 2,46 million teu.
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