APL ship first to call new Subic Bay container terminal

APL ship first to call new Subic Bay container terminal    Subic Bay International Terminal Corp. (SBITC) recently handled its first vessel, the 1,200-TEU APL-operated Eagle Excellence, at the newly opened New Container Terminal-1 (NCT-1) at Subic Bay Freeport, located southwest of the Luzon Island in the Philippines.
   SBITC is a joint venture company of International Container Terminal Services Inc., the Subic Bay Metropolitan Development Authority, and Royal Port Services Inc.
   The NCT-1 has an annual capacity of about 300,000 TEUs, a quay length of 560 meters and depth of 13 meters. It was funded by a $215 million loan from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation and is part of a wider expansion project designed to turn Subic Bay Freeport into a major Southeast Asia maritime hub.