AP Moller takes third terminal operator spot

WITH A global throughput of 13-million TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units) in 2000, the AP Moller group - owners of Safmarine and Maersk Sealand - is now firmly entrenched as the worldÕs third largest container terminal operator. According to figures released to FTW by marketing manager Morten Lund, the top two were Hutchison Ports, with a 25.3-m turnover, and PSA, with 19.7-m. An interesting indicator of terminal activities, added Lund, comes from the recently opened Tanjung Pelepas terminal in Indonesia in which APM has a share. It has just celebrated the loading of the one millionth TEU - after only 571 days of operation. That's 73 container moves an hour.