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Inaugurated the new container Rotterdam terminal World Gateway in the harbour area Maasvlakte 2 of Rotterdam
It is managed by DP World within an international consortium with HMM, APL, MOL and CMA CGM
September 14, 2015
Friday slid in the port of Rotterdam is inaugurated the new container Rotterdam terminal World Gateway (RWG), that it is realized in the area of widening of the called port Maasvlakte 2 and that is managed by the terminalista group DP World of Dubay within an international consortium that has obtained in concession the terminal and that it is participated with 30% of the vital one from the Middle Eastern group beside four companies of navigation: the South Korean Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) with 20%, the APL of Singapore with 20%, the Japanese Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) with 20% and the French CMA CGM with 10% ( of the 11 July and 17 september 2007). The investment at the expense of the consortium piles to about 700 million euros.
The new terminal, that it covers an area of 108 hectares and altogether has a annual ability to traffic pairs to 2,35 million teu, has a dock of 1.150 linear meters dedicated to the oceanic ships that are equipped with 11 cranes of dock and have a depth of the -20 backdrop meters. Moreover the terminal has a dock for the traffic of ships feeder and barges that is long 550 meters, has a depth of the -11 backdrop meters and is equipped with three cranes of dock.
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