The company has signed an expansion agreement for the USD100m phase, which will see two new berths developed, incorporating a 20-hectare yard area to raise the annual BGT container handling capacity by 600,000 teu to a total of 1,200,000 teu.<\/p>\n
Enrique K. Razon Jr, chairman & president of International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI), which manages the terminal, said: Our commitment to provide international standard port facilities and services in Iraq is plain to see.\u201d<\/p>\n
10,000 teu capacity<\/strong><\/p>\n New berths 25 and 26 will be equipped with quay and landside container handling systems to enable them to handle container vessels of up to 10,000 teu.<\/p>\n Combined with the adjacent recently redeveloped Berth 27, they offer a continuous berthing line of 600m and 50 hectares of yard area.<\/p>\n The new container handling systems will work in conjunction with advanced terminal operating systems.<\/p>\n Immediate start<\/strong><\/p>\n BGT will immediately begin construction of the berths, which are due to be completed in 18 months\u2019 time.<\/p>\n Hans-Ole Madsen, senior vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa at ICTSI, emphasised: \u201cThe new berths will, through both capacity expansion and the installation of modern infrastructure and handling systems, open the door to even higher levels of efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr Razon Jr added the new facilities are essential to support Iraq\u2019s key economic objectives, including the resurgence of the non-oil economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ICTSI has approved the second development phase of the Basra Gateway Terminal (BGT) in North Port, Umm Qasr, Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5470,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468\/revisions\/5470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5468"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}