Vancouver's Deltaport container terminal opens third berth

THE third berth at Vancouver's Deltaport container terminal at Roberts Bank has opened for business proudly displaying its new super postpanamax gantry cranes that will accommodate biggest containerships afloat, reports The Vancouver Sun.

The two-year, C$400-million (US$386 million) project increases terminal capacity 50 per cent, from 1.2 million TEU to 1.8 million, handled over an area of 20 hectares.

Deltaport's pride is its sent of three new dual-hoist quad cranes, the first of their kind in the Americas. "This type of crane is equipped to handle the widest ships that are out there," said International Trade Minister Stockwell Day.

Deltaport, which handles about 45 per cent of the container cargo that moves through Canada's west coast and more than half of the cargo through Port Metro Vancouver, is operated by TSI Terminal Systems Inc, a division of GCT Global Container Terminals Inc, owned by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.

(Source: www.schednet.com)