TAIWAN's Evergreen has spent over US$333 million on 19 remote-controlled bridge cranes and 56 gantry cranes for the opening of the No 7 terminal in Taiwan's main container port, Kaohsiung, reports London's Loadstar.
Opening next May, with a 2.4 kilometre berth and 18-metres alongside, the facility on reclaimed land can accommodate five 24,000-TEUers simultaneously, enabling it to handle around 4.5 million TEU annually.
The first batch of equipment arrived at Kaohsiung recently, when Chinese crane manufacturer Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries delivered four jumbo ship-to-shore cranes and one rubber-tyred gantry unit on the heavyload carrier Zhen Hua 27.
Evergreen, Taiwan's largest container carrier, signed a long-term lease with Taiwan International Ports Corp for the No 7 terminal in 2018, but flat throughput growth reportedly delayed its development. Kaohsiung, which had an all-time high handling record of 10.59 million TEU in 2014, processed 9.86 million TEU in 2021.
The large-scale investment in machinery and equipment indicates that Evergreen will continue to develop Kaohsiung as a transshipment base in east Asia, said Loadstar.
On June 22, construction of the first phase of No 7's S5 and S3B terminals and some of the backfield sites was officially completed and handed over to Evergreen, which will use these areas for pre-operational preparation, such as equipment relocation.
Once No 7 is ready, Evergreen, the world's sixth-largest liner operator, will shift its Kaohsiung operations there from the No 5 terminal, which it also operates, and No 5's lease will be taken over by compatriot liner operator Wan Hai Lines.
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