HONG Kong's Orient Overseas
International Limited (OOCL), will spend US$346.6 million cranes and yard gear
for its new Long Beach terminal in the largest contract for the purchase of
container handling equipment for development of a US port.
The carrier announced in a
filing that it had signed contracts with equipment manufacturer Shanghai
Zhenhua Heavy Industry for 14 ship-to-shore cranes at $11.9 million each and 70
automated stacking cranes at $2.56 million each over two contracts made on 15
June and 2 August. 2. The cranes will be delivered between 2015 and 2019 to the
new Middle Harbour port development at Long Beach.
OOCL had signed a 40-year
lease of the Middle Harbour port project worth $4.6 billion with the Long Beach
Harbour Commission in April this year. Over the next nine years, Long Beach's
aging Pier F and Pier E container terminals will be redeveloped in several
phases into a new facility. The first phase of the project is due to be completed
in 2016, according to Alphaliner.
Pier E was formerly occupied
by HMM's California United Terminals and has already been vacated. Pier F will
remain operational throughout the conversion process until the newly completed
berths will gradually replace it. Pier F is currently only used by a single
mainline container service - the Grand Alliance's OOCL- operated SSX, a weekly
South China and Taiwan service maintained with six 8,063-TEU sister vessels.
Source : HKSG.
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