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At CMA Terminals (CMA CGM group) the management of the container terminal of the port of Beirut
Ten-year concession contract
February 17, 2022
The concession contract has a duration of 10 years. The contract provides for investments by the French group equal to total 33 million dollars, of which 19 million in the first two years, investment that will be made inter alia for purchase new port facilities and to modernise existing ones, to build a technical structure intended for maintenance and storage of spare parts, to implement the computerization of terminal procedures and systems and for improve its environmental performance.
The container terminal was developed in two phases, of the first completed in 2002 and the second in 2013, which have equipped with the landing of a quay line of 1,100 meters with a seabed of the depth of -16.5 meters.
The container terminal of the Lebanese port was managed since 2005 by beirut container terminal consortium (BCTC) under a concession contract that expired on 31 January 2020 and subsequently extended. The BCTC special purpose vehicle is participated by International Port Management, Portia Management Services e Logistics and Port Management, Americas.
In 2021 the container terminal enlivened a traffic containerized pairs to 615 thousand teu, with a decrease of -20.4% on the year previous, of which 481 thousand teu of container in import-export (+3.1%) and 134 thousand teu of containers in transhipment (-56.2%). CMA Terminals plans to arrive at enlivened in the Lebanese terminal a traffic annual equal to 1.4 million teu. The traffic record at the BCTC is was reached in 2018 with over 1.3 million teu. The year subsequent traffic decreased by -5.9% and in 2020, when in the port of verified an explosion that killed 214 people, the decrease was -37.1%.
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The concession contract has a duration of 10 years. The contract provides for investments by the French group equal to total 33 million dollars, of which 19 million in the first two years, investment that will be made inter alia for purchase new port facilities and to modernise existing ones, to build a technical structure intended for maintenance and storage of spare parts, to implement the computerization of terminal procedures and systems and for improve its environmental performance.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
