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Penang Port will be soon commissioning the newly-expanded 200 metres
container berth at the North Butterworth Container Terminal by end of first
quarter of this year.
The completion of the berth expands NBCT quay length to 900 metres.
Senior general manager of Penang Port Sdn Bhd, Mohd Niana Merican said with
the additional berth, Penang Port is expected to handle 860,000 TEUs in
2005.
The northern gateway port handled 772,000 TEUs last year.
He said the expansion comprises the construction of second access bridge,
reclamation of 25 hectares of land area for container yard and utilities as
well as procurement of container handling equipment.
Operation of the container terminal will raise the container handling
capacity at NBCT to 1.2 million TEUs per annum.
The port will be acquiring three more post-panamax cranes and several units
of rubber-tyred gantry cranes for the landside operations.
Currently the terminal is served by six quay cranes and 20 transfer cranes.
Besides North Butterworth Container Terminal, containers are still being
handled at Butterworth Container Terminal (BCT).
The two berths at BCT draw 331 metres long and are capable of handling
270,000 TEUs.
The operation of the terminal is supported three gantry cranes and 12
transfer cranes.
Mohd Niana also said upgrading work on the PELKON III - extension of PELKON
II system has been progressing well and was expected to be completed by May
2005.
The PELKON system, a web-based application, is a customized container
terminal management system developed uniquely to meet the operational
requirements of both the North Butterworth Container Terminal and the
Butterworth Wharves Container Terminal.
The auto gate system is equipped with a camera placed at the entrance of our
port able to capture container trucks information and transmit/feed to the
main frame of the PELKON system. |
