APM Terminals to implement new port project in Turkey

Deep water terminal Petkim Port eliminates bottlenecks for the handling of container vessels in the Izmir region from 2013

At the start of this week APM Terminals and the Turkish Petkim Holding, rooted in the petrochemical industry, signed an agreement about building a new deep water terminal for containers and general cargo in Greater Izmir. The two companies’ new building shall eliminate the bottlenecks for the handling of trade vessels in Izmir City Port (Alsancak). Operations at the general cargo terminal are scheduled to start by the end of 2012.

In 2013 and 2014 a container terminal with 700 metres of quay length and an annual capacity of 1.5 million TEU will be built in the Petkim Port. With investments at the amount of USD 350 to 400 million APM Terminals and Petkim Holding will build a deep water port able to handle vessels of a maximum length of 16 metres and more than 10,000 TEU capacity. The port area can be expanded to 3 million TEU if required. Port operations are in the hands of the A.P. Moller-Maersk company APM Terminals for a period of 28 years.

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