Consultant Moffatt & Nichol is in the final stages of completing detailed design, construction drawings, technical specifications and bid documents for Phase I of a new container terminal on the Aguadulce Peninsula in Colombia for ICTSI. Phase I includes extensive land reclamation, dredging of the berths and turning basin to the existing access channel, and 600 meters of new wharf. The contract also includes construction of a new, 21 km access road, on site housing, administration buildings, a maintenance shop, a terminal fire station and an emergency power generation station. The facility will have an opening throughput capacity of 450,000 teu with a planned final capacity of 1.2m teu, 900 meters of quay with three berths, nine post-panamax quay cranes, automated gate systems, inspection and screening areas, intelligent traffic control, and state-of-the-art management systems.
The V-TRAX automatically steers the container handling equipment down a virtual track along the runway using high-precision Differential GPS to locate the equipment and provide both the current position and heading. A twin antenna method allows the system to determine the heading before the equipment starts to move.
