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Anxiously
awaiting confirmation that it could
win yet another world leading
container line, Pelabuhan Tanjung
Pelepas in Johor is pushing ahead
with its efforts to enhance its
capacity further.
Last
week PTP, one of world’s
fastest-growing port, took delivery
of a further fleet of five rubber-tyred
gantry cranes – the workhorse
deployed for land-side operation- to
bring the total deployed at the
container yard to 52.
The
new cranes pushes the capacity of
the Malaysia’s showpiece port
closer to 4.5 million TEUs, the full
capacity of which will be achieved
later this year with the delivery of
the remaining landside RTGs and
shoreside super post-panamax gantry
cranes.
The
chief operating officer of PTP, Mohd
Sidik Shaik Osman said that the
latest delivery of the RTGs
increases the port’s yard planning
and terminal efficiency.
“It
also increases the port's handling
capacity which for Phase One, will
eventually be around 4.5 - 5 million
TEUs per annum benefiting both
current and future potential
customers,” he added.
The
five units of the RTGs are the
second batch of the 15 cranes
ordered by PTP from Noell Crane
Systems of Italy.
PTP
received the first batch of five
units of RTG cranes from Noell in
January this year along with two
units of the Super Post Panamax
quayside cranes.
The
RTGs have a capacity of one over
five high, with a width of seven
containers across.
With
this delivery and commissioning, PTP
will have 52 RTGs operational for
its yard.
The
final batch of five RTGs from Noell
will be delivered by end of second
quarter of 2002.
Another
15 units of RTGs will be acquired by
end 2002 to make to the total number
of RTGs for PTP's Phase 1 operation
to 72 units.
Meanwhile,
as part of the growing efficiencies
at the port, PTP has developed and
implemented an electronic and
paperless Vessel Clearance System
(VCS) for the purpose of obtaining
port clearance for vessels calling
at PTP.
The
system, allows shipping agents to
submit an application on-line and
all the respective authorities will
receive the necessary information
pertaining to their area of
responsibility simultaneously.
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