Wanhai Shipping spends billions to build container base at Kaohsiung Port

Wanhai Shipping Company plans to spend more than 10 billion yuan (billions of RMB) to build Piers 79 to 81 and the yard of the Fifth Container Center of Kaohsiung Port into a new generation container base. A groundbreaking ceremony will be held today for the reconstruction, which is expected to be completed in 2026 After the gradual renovation is completed and put into operation in 2018, the overall operating area will be doubled, and the future operating volume will reach 2 million TEU.

Kaohsiung Port Branch pointed out that Wanhai’s average annual operating volume in Kaohsiung Port is at least 1 million TEU. It leased Pier 42 in 1987 and moved to Piers 63 and 64 in 1994. This time it rented Piers 79 to 81 and The back-line storage yard will spend more than 10 billion yuan (billions of RMB) to build a new generation container base, including the configuration of remote control bridge cranes, gantry cranes and intelligent control stations, and the large-scale introduction of terminal electric tractors , electric stacker.

Kaohsiung Port Branch will also carry out the dredging project of the Fifth Container Center Terminal at the same time, raising the water depth of piers 77 to 79 to minus 17.5 meters, which can accommodate post-Panamax container ships, which will facilitate Wanhai Company to allocate transfer boxes to Kaohsiung Port transport.

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