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Town port to get new cranes
March 23, 2006 By Tom Robbins Cape Town - The replacement of outdated cranes at the Cape Town container terminal would improve efficiency, SA Port Operations (Sapo) said yesterday, but longer-term plans to increase capacity were dependent on environmental approval. Transnet, Sapo's parent company, is in the middle of an overhaul of container terminal infrastructure around the country, following capacity shortfalls and efficiency problems in recent years. Durban has the country's leading container terminal but Cape Town's terminal is an important cog in the country's fruit export sector. Sapo's resident engineer at the Cape Town container terminal, Robert Hutchison, said the facility handled 634 000 twenty-foot equivalent units (teus) last year, which was about its full capacity
However, as international trade increased, Hutchison said, the growth in container shipments was between 4 percent and 5 percent a year, so capacity expansion was vital. He said 26 new stacking area straddle carriers would be operational by mid-June, bringing the total to 30. The new carriers are able to stack containers three high, resulting in greater space efficiency. The previous ones could stack containers only two high. Hutchison said a further six super-post-panamax ship-to-shore cranes had also been ordered, with the first two expected to be delivered in August next year. He said four of the previous six ship-to-shore cranes were unable to service bigger post-panamax ships as they did not have enough reach. Hutchison said this meant that these four cranes could not service 47 percent of the container ships calling at Cape Town harbour. However, he said, vital plans to increase the depth of the terminal to accommodate larger ships and to extend the container stacking area alongside the quay were both dependent on provincial environmental approval. Hutchison said plans to increase the depth of the four-berth terminal from a minimum of 12.5m to a minimum of 14.5m had been approved by Transnet and, pending environmental approval, could begin in August next year. He described the lack of an environmental decision on the deepening of the terminal as "a bit of a crisis". Hutchison said building work on increasing the size of the stacking area behind the quay could "probably begin" at the beginning of 2009. He explained that the stacking area and the operational area were a long way apart at present, resulting in inefficiency.
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