ICTSI JV company takes over Yantai Gangtong box terminal
Yantai Rising Dragon International Container Terminals (YRDICT), a partly-owned unit of Manila-based port operator International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), has taken over the Yantai Gangtong Container Terminal in Shandong province.
YRDICT, a joint venture company with ICTSI (Hong Kong), Yantai Port Group Co. and SDIC Communications Co., had started management and operation of the Yantai Gangtong Container Terminal on April 1, a statement from ICTSI said.
The YRDICT terminal has two container berths, with a wharf line of 730 metres, and a depth of 14 metres. The yard and container freight station has an area of 280,000 square metres including a 4,500-square-metre warehouse. It has a total annual capacity of over 900,000 TEU. Cargo handling equipment includes six post-panamax quay cranes and 12 rubber tired gantries.
The hi-tech terminal uses a container information system, consisting of various sub-systems in stowage management, real-time port operation control, yard planning, container freight station management, statistics inquiry and billing.
Yantai Port handled 80.8 million tons of cargo in 2006, including 1.05 million TEU. The port is the 13th busiest on the mainland by volume, and ranks 11th in container traffic.
YRDICT, a joint venture company with ICTSI (Hong Kong), Yantai Port Group Co. and SDIC Communications Co., had started management and operation of the Yantai Gangtong Container Terminal on April 1, a statement from ICTSI said.
The YRDICT terminal has two container berths, with a wharf line of 730 metres, and a depth of 14 metres. The yard and container freight station has an area of 280,000 square metres including a 4,500-square-metre warehouse. It has a total annual capacity of over 900,000 TEU. Cargo handling equipment includes six post-panamax quay cranes and 12 rubber tired gantries.
The hi-tech terminal uses a container information system, consisting of various sub-systems in stowage management, real-time port operation control, yard planning, container freight station management, statistics inquiry and billing.
Yantai Port handled 80.8 million tons of cargo in 2006, including 1.05 million TEU. The port is the 13th busiest on the mainland by volume, and ranks 11th in container traffic.