Kingston Container Terminal expansion nears completion
Two super post-Panamax cranes were unloaded last week at the Kingston Container Terminal, the major transshipment hub in Jamaica, as its fifth phase expansion project nears completion.
Another four of the same cranes are scheduled to arrive in August, when the terminal will feature 19 cranes including 14 super post-Panamax cranes; 74 straddle carries; 14 empty container stackers; 1,392 reefers to accommodate refrigerated containers; and 100 hectares of paved operational yard space and storage areas.
The Port Authority of Jamaica is investing $240 million in the expansion project, which will raise the terminal’s annual handling capacity from 1.5 million TEUs to about 3.5 million TEUs by 2009.
Witnessing the arrival of the new cranes, Jamaica’s Minister of Housing, Transport, Water and Works Robert Pickersgill, said the terminal’s ongoing improvements “are the major ingredients enhancing Jamaica’s position in and capacity to benefit from the international shipping industry, which can be described as the engine driving the global economy.”
“The port authority will be pursuing the preliminary plans for the development of the next expansion phase of our transshipment activities, which will incorporate lands at Fort Augusta,” Pickersgill said.
Kingston Container Terminal expansion nears completion
