HONG KONG’s Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) will start building of Terminal D at Thailand’s Laem Chabang Port within a year, the company said.
“We expect construction to begin within one year, pending completion of the internal planning process,” Sanga Sanguansaksri, marketing manager, Hutchison Laemchabang Terminal told Seatrade Global.
Three of the four terminals at the main gateway for Thailand’s imports and exports are 130 kilometres from Bangkok.
Hutchison is the largest operator at the port, with operations at Terminal A at sections A2 and A3, Terminal C at C1 and C2 and also has the concession to develop and operate Terminal D. It was granted six concessions at Laem Chabang by PAT in 2004.
Last year, Mr Sanguansaksri said throughput at Hutchison terminals in the port was two million TEU, for capacity utilisation of 77 per cent. Its Terminal C zones serve bigger ships with a draught of 16 metres.
Port officials said throughput hit 6.4 million TEU in 2014, on capacity of 9.1 million TEU but would rise to 10.8 million TEU with the addition of Terminal D.
With only 300 metres of quays and 400,000 TEU capacity, Terminal B4, run by TIPS Co Ltd, saw throughput of one million TEU.
With transshipments only one per cent of throughput, Laem Chabang is a gateway port that ranks as the world’s 23rd busiest container port, with a throughput of 6.04 million TEU in 2013.
Source: Turkey SeaNews
Source: Turkey SeaNews