{"id":665,"date":"2021-08-31T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2021\/08\/31\/suez-mega-capacity\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:23:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:23:52","slug":"suez-mega-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/middle-east\/suez-mega-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Suez mega capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US$60m has been invested in equipment and capacity upgrade projects at SCCT beginning 2020.&nbsp;&nbsp;The most complex of these was the heightening of six STS (ship-to-shore) cranes in SCCT\u2019s own yard. Following this recently completed project, 12 out of 18 of the terminal\u2019s STS cranes now have the capacity to handle ultra large container vessels (ULCV).<\/p>\n<p>This also makes SCCT the only terminal in Egypt to be able to simultaneously serve two mega vessels, without compromising on productivity. The Suez Canal came under scrutiny in March when the Evergreen-operated 20000 TEU&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/news101\/port-operations\/cargo-handling\/stuck-ship-threatens-supply-chain\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ever Given<\/em> vessel became stuck there for six days.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur upgrade programme was already very ambitious, but the global pandemic made it even more complex,\u201d said Sunay Mukerjee, chief commercial officer at SCCT. \u201cHowever, it was also an opportunity for the SCCT team to rise up to the challenge. Thanks to their tremendous efforts, we are happy to report that all projects have been concluded on schedule, allowing us to serve our customers \u2013 and their businesses \u2013 even better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>APMT-managed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Opened in 2004 on a 49-year concession, SCCT is a joint venture with APM Terminals as the majority shareholder (55%) and operator. Other key shareholders include COSCO (20%), the Suez Canal Authority (10.3%) and the National Bank of Egypt (5%).<\/p>\n<p>The terminal has also conducted a gate expansion, with civil engineering works to increase SCCT\u2019s gate handling capacity to more than 50,000 TEU per month. Consequently, the terminal\u2019s gate volumes have increased 50% year-on-year, with growth in reefer exports reaching 150%.<\/p>\n<p>Other investments at SCCT also included the purchase of new yard equipment, with 16 new RTG (Rubber Tyre Gantry) cranes joining the fleet, paving the way for more quay and gate volumes in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Capacity upgrades and other investments have already resulted in a new record said APM Terminals, with SCCT handling 57,242 moves \/ 95,579 TEUs on the quay in week 33 \u2013 the highest weekly volume ever handled at the terminal. The increased volume was handled while maintaining the same gate moves per hour (GMPH) of 30.04.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\/\/ends\/\/<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT) has become a mega vessel contender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}