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4 unusual facts about Container Terminal


Contship Containerlines

When Contship Containerlines was acquired by CP Ships in 1997, the terminal operations in Italy stayed an independent company, not owned by CP.

In the 90s, the pace quickened even more with new vessels for the Eagle service, a revision of the Costa operation and start of the Salerno Terminal operations.

With terminal operations starting in Savona and Gioia Tauro in 1995 and with restructuring of the Euroasia/Medasia services and the establishing of a Med-US Gulf and Mexico service they made further service improvements.

Port of Gioia Tauro

The Medcenter Container Terminal (Medcenter, Contship) is the main operator working within the seaport of Gioia Tauro.


Economy of Naples

The economy of Naples and its closest surrounding area is based largely in tourism, commerce, industry and agriculture; Naples also acts as a busy cargo terminal, and the port of Naples is one of the Mediterranean's biggest and most important.

Feeder ship

Feeders collect shipping containers from different ports and transport them to central container terminals where they are loaded to bigger vessels.

Luca Maria Gambardella

He is also Chief Scientific Officer of the IDSIA spin-off AntOptima, whose commercial applications of 'Ant Colony Optimization' include vehicle routing for large commercial truck fleets, and the management of container flow through the largest Mediterranean container terminal.

Terminal Operating System

A Terminal Operating System, or TOS, is a key part of the supply chain and primarily aims to control the movement and storage of various types of Cargo in and around a Container terminal or Port.

Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyūshū

A new underwater tunnel is being constructed in 2005-6 between Tobata and Wakamatsu wards to link the Hibiki container terminal with Kokura.


see also

Colombo Harbour

The Colombo Port currently has three container terminals: Jaya Container Terminal (JCT), South Asia Gateway Terminal (SAGT - operated by John Keells Holdings) and Unity Container Terminal (UCT).

Melford International Terminal

Maher Terminals is the designated operator of the Prince Rupert Container Terminal in Prince Rupert, British Columbia on behalf of the Prince Rupert Port Authority.

National Container Company

In 2009 the off-dock container terminal and the logistics complex (being under construction since 2007) based in Shushary (Logistika-Terminal) started functioning.

In 2003 NCC signed a contract with Eurogate (a European container terminal operator) with the intention of creating a container terminal in Ust-Luga.

Sepanggar

It is located around Sepanggar Bay which houses the Sepanggar Bay Container Terminal, a major naval base for the Royal Malaysian Navy as well as the Sepanggar Bay Oil Terminal.