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Busan new port's automated container terminal starts operation

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The Busan New Port Phase 2-1 Terminal (Hanjin shipping terminal, 2 berths for 50 thousand ton class ships and 2 berths for 20 thousand ton class ships), equipped with a cutting-edge automation system, starts operation.

The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs announced that it held an opening ceremony of the terminal on May 20, 3:00PM, with participation of 400 people from the shipping and loading industries including Cho Yang-ho, CEO of the Korean Air and Choi Eun-young, CEO of Hanjin Shipping.

The Hanjin Shipping Terminal with depth of 18m and cutting edge loading equipments is the first terminal built by the Busan Port Authority after its start in 2005. It is built in line with the current trend of enlarging vessels with handling capacity of more than 10 thousand TEU class container vessels.

It is expected that the terminal is equipped with Tendem Crane, which can raise two 40-foot containers or four 20-foot containers at the same time, and the automated horizontal yard crane system, which automatically recognizes passing cars through RFID, etc.

The Hanjin Shipping Terminal will secure cargo of the CKYH Alliance (COSCO, K-Line, Yangming Shipping and Hanjin Shipping, etc.) and handle about one million TEU this year. On top of that, it will continuously step up marketing to global shipping corporations.

The Ministry said that the Hanjin Shipping Terminal will largely contribute to solving the problem of decreasing cargo volume since it is a state-of-the-art terminal only for containers opened by the Hanjin Shipping, the largest shipping corporation in Korea. The Ministry will not spare support for shipping corporations to overcome the current crisis by offering various benefits such as usage fee reduction and others.

The source of news : Ministry of Land, Transprot and Maritime Affairs