20 months after opening, Brazil’s newest terminal, Brasil Terminal Portuário (BTP) - a joint venture between APM Terminals and Terminal Investment Limited - has just handled its one-millionth container – landed last Friday (July 24) from MSC Agrigento, a vessel on the Ipanema service, arriving from Durban.
Other milestones, according to an e-mail from APM to FTWO, include the terminal’s highest monthly average productivity per crane being achieved in May, with 34.11 moves per hour on the ship-to-shore cranes.
In addition to BTP’s increasing productivity rate, the terminal has also reduced the truck cycle - a critical measure for the performance of every container facility – to only 40 minutes from pre-gate to gate out.
Durban truckers will be looking at that last figure with lust in their eyes.
Source: APM
Brazilian terminal hits a number of milestones
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