01/01/0001

Million Container Milestone

Brasil Terminal Portuário (BTP), part of the APM Terminals Global Terminal Network, and Brazil’s newest and most modern container terminal, has reached a number of important milestones. BTP handled its one millionth container while working the one thousandth vessel to call the terminal, the 9,000 TEU capacity MSC Agrigento, running on MSC’s Ipanema service, arriving from Durban, South Africa. BTP is a joint venture between APM Terminals and Terminal Investment Limited. The simultaneous achievements took place on July 24th, inside of the terminal’s second year of operation.

In May BTP recorded its highest monthly average productivity per crane, with 34.11 moves per hour using the terminal’s ship-to-shore cranes. In the first half of this year, BTP has handled 363,921 TEUs, a 167% increase over the number of containers handled in the same period in 2014. This is due in part to the dredging of the navigation channel, which has increased the depth in the access channel to the same level all over, enabling larger vessels, such as the Agrigento, to call.

The 121 acre terminal offers a 15 meter depth, and 1,108 meters of quay which can accommodate up to three vessels of 9,200 TEU capacity simultaneously. BTP is equipped with eight STS cranes and 26 RTGs. Container volume at the Port of Santos, which represents approximately 27% of Brazilian foreign trade, was 3.7 million TEUs in 2014. BTP handled 736,711 TEUs in its first full year of operations in 2014.