APM’s engineering consultancy opens its doors
APM Terminals Crane & Engineering Services (CES) is spreading its wings, and offering its consulting services to other ports and container terminal operators as a way to save time – and capital.
The group has been developing since 2006, when an office was opened in Shanghai to coordinate APM Terminals’ business and engineering initiatives with Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC), although it only became a separate business unit in February 2009. The 25-person team also has offices in Germany and the Netherlands.
As CES notes, the procurement and performance of terminal handling equipment has the ability to impact productivity and financial results – either positively or negatively.
“The purchase and installation of terminal cranes represents a large investment in port development and upgrading” notes CES managing director Halfdan Ross, adding “and any advantage in negotiating and designing can pay off for years in both direct and indirect benefits to the purchaser – a single post-Panamax STS can cost anywhere from USD$6 to USD$12 million and take one year to build and deliver from the manufacturer. That ties up a lot of capital”.
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