{"id":11263,"date":"2017-10-19T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2017\/10\/19\/apl-renews-terminal-lease-at-port-of-kaohsiung\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:06:15","slug":"apl-renews-terminal-lease-at-port-of-kaohsiung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/asia\/apl-renews-terminal-lease-at-port-of-kaohsiung\/","title":{"rendered":"APL renews terminal lease at Port of Kaohsiung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deal with Taiwan Branch and Taiwan International Ports Corporation will see APL retain its current terminal plot at the port for another 10 years from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Sartini, APL CEO, said: \u201cToday, Intra-Asia container volume accounts for one-sixth of all containers moved globally. We see further growth prospects in this trade where APL is seeking to be a major player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur terminal in the Port of Kaohsiung will therefore be strategic for our advancement in Intra-Asia where we are connecting the key markets of Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam amongst others via the relay hub today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>APL said in the months ahead it will be upgrading its terminal operating system to increase its operational capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The 101-acre terminal is equipped to handle ships of up to 14,000 teus and has an annual capacity of 1.5m teus.<\/p>\n<p>It operates two cargo berths with a linear quay length of 640m and draft of 15.2m and currently receives the vessels of APL and other carriers including CMA CGM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American President Lines (APL) has renewed its terminal lease at Taiwan\u2019s Port of Kaohsiung to help it develop in Intra-Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-11263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11265,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263\/revisions\/11265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11263"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=11263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}