The Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau confirmed yesterday that Evergreen Marine Corp will continue its lease of Pier No. 117 at Terminal 4 of Kaohsiung Port. Bureau Director-General Shieh Ming-hui said the company’s lease was set to expire next Wednesday, but the two parties signed a renewal last month.
The lease was extended for five years.
“The company still views Kaohsiung Port as one of its important operational bases and that’s why it decided to renew the contract,” Shieh said when asked whether the bureau had offered any incentives for the company to stay.
Evergreen leases piers No. 115, No. 116 and No. 117.
Meanwhile, Shieh said the bureau had lowered its forecast for container throughput from about 9.68 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) to 8.5 million TEUs amid the economic downturn.
Shieh said the third quarter was expected to be slightly better than the first and second quarters.
In related news, Kaohsiung Port is replacing some of the rails for container cranes at Terminal 3 that have been in use for almost 30 years.
The rail span at piers No. 68 and No. 69 was 80 feet (24m), which cannot handle more modern container cranes, which require a rail span of 100 feet.
The lease was extended for five years.
“The company still views Kaohsiung Port as one of its important operational bases and that’s why it decided to renew the contract,” Shieh said when asked whether the bureau had offered any incentives for the company to stay.
Evergreen leases piers No. 115, No. 116 and No. 117.
Meanwhile, Shieh said the bureau had lowered its forecast for container throughput from about 9.68 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) to 8.5 million TEUs amid the economic downturn.
Shieh said the third quarter was expected to be slightly better than the first and second quarters.
In related news, Kaohsiung Port is replacing some of the rails for container cranes at Terminal 3 that have been in use for almost 30 years.
The rail span at piers No. 68 and No. 69 was 80 feet (24m), which cannot handle more modern container cranes, which require a rail span of 100 feet.