The new terminal will deliver purpose-designed container handling capacity, coupled with modern general cargo handling and storage facilities.
Full delivery of Phase one, to incorporate a second berth and total quay line of 350m, will be completed by November 2016.
With this, container handling capacity will be 175,000 teu annually, with a nine-hectare terminal area incorporating a yard area of six hectares. While depth alongside the quay will be 12m at all times, offering the ability to service panamax, handymax and West Africa-max vessels.
Handling operations along the 350m quay will be via heavy duty mobile cranes, with reachstackers in the yard area for container handling and a Navis N4 terminal operating system, implementing value-added functions such as integrated billing.
“The works are going well,” said Hans-Ole Madsen, ICTSI senior vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa regions, “and we are confident that we will be able to meet current and future cargo handling requirements for the Democratic Republic of the Congo in both the container and general cargo handling sectors.”
To date, construction activity at the terminal site has included the completion of the access road, commencement of piling for the quay, and the start of works on the yard area, terminal building and gates.
By Lara Shingles