Port of Grangemouth moves forward with upgrades

The Scottish port’s resurfacing development project at the container terminal will be finished later this year.    The Port of Grangemouth is well under way with a multimillion-pound investment program involving container terminal surfacing upgrades, ship-to-shore crane investment, warehouse development and a new terminal operating system.
   The 2 million-pound (U.S. $2.7 million) resurfacing development project at the port’s container terminal will be finished later this year, providing the terminal with an additional 1,000 TEUs of capacity. This will help with further demands that may be placed on container storage times as a result of changes to customs processes through Brexit, according to Forth Ports, which owns and operates several terminal across the United Kingdom.
   The port’s container terminal specializes in short-sea feeder operations, with BlueWater Reporting’s Port Dashboard tool showing that BG Freight Line, MSC and Unifeeder all operate intra-North Europe loops that call the port.
   In August, the port is scheduled to receive a new Liebherr ship-to-shore container crane. The port is currently equipped with two gantry cranes, according to Forth Ports’ website.
   Meanwhile, construction has begun on a new 100,000-square-foot warehouse development within the port estate, scheduled to be completed by December. The warehouse will be directly linked to the container terminal and will have access to the rail siding.
   In addition, the first phase in a new IT terminal operating system will be implemented in June and the second phase will take place in August.