Vladivostok Sea Commercial Port to get new container pick-and-place devices
Vladivostok is looking forward to the grand event that is to occur on September 26. It is the first time for the last 25 years when the Vladivostok Sea Commercial port (VCP) gets the modern capable equipment for the container processing, the VCP Directorate on Public Relations informs. Four container pick-and-place systems each weighting 1000 tons are to be delivered to the Golden Horn Bay by specialized motor vessel “Tsenjhua 18”. Two stage transportation systems (STS) with the lifting capacity of 50 tons and two warehouse pick-and-place systems with the lifting capacity of 45 tons were built by Shanghai Port Machinery Co. Ltd (ZPMC) especially for VCP. Nowadays this Chinese company is one of the leaders in manufacturing of the specialized container pick-and-place equipment. The unshipping of this equipment is as unique as the equipment itself. After mooring the vessel is to sink down to the upper altitude mark of the moor. Then pick-and-place equipment will be unshipped. The new equipment will be mounted in moors#15 and 16 of the Vladivostok Sea Commercial Port. Considerable amount of works has been done for the previous 18 months to be prepared for the mounting of this equipment. In the framework of the preparation of moor#15 the measures on reconstruction of the moor lodgment, crane and rail tracks, engineering and electric networks were arranged. After the specialized container pick-and-place equipment is mounted in moor #15, one more specialized container terminal with the throughput capacity of 100 thousand tons TEU a year will start operating. It will give an opportunity to increase the port engineering capability by 350 thousand tons TEU a year (including the capacity of the Vladivostok Container terminal). The realization of the large-scale project of CPV new container terminal is the guarantee of successful development of the Primorye transport and logistic system that, in its turn, will meet the growing demands of the Far Eastern economy and aim at developing of the transport infrastructure of the country as whole. The Open Joint Stock Company “Vladivostok Sea Commercial Port” holds and administrates the sea port of Vladivostok – one of the largest sea ports in the Russian Far East. In 2007 the freight turnover of the CPV came to 4 855.8 thousand tones, it exceeded the indicators of the previous year 20%. The Vladivostok Sea Commercial Port contains 17 moorings, including the specialized ones – container, passenger, and automobile. The CPV management system meets the international standards of port business.