{"id":8828,"date":"2013-04-29T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2013\/04\/29\/bnct-expansion-strategy\/"},"modified":"2013-04-29T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T17:03:00","slug":"bnct-expansion-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/asia\/bnct-expansion-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"BNCT expansion strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BNCT, Asia\u2019s first vertically automated container terminal, celebrated the end of its first year of operation in December 2012. The terminal is on track for achieving its 1.8m teu capacity by late 2014, when it intends to add over \u00a31m teu more capacity upon completion of its phase 2 expansion project.<\/p>\n<p>The terminal operator says it&#8217;s the only one in New Port adding any significant new capacity up until 2020 \u2013 all part of its strategy to get bigger ships to call.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Slootweg, chief commercial officer, BNCT, said to <i>Port Strategy<\/i>: \u201cOur strategy is simply to ensure capacity, infrastructure and equipment available that supports the industry trend of more and larger vessels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;The expansion is about putting in remaining additional yard blocks and the purchase of additional equipment. We hope to place the order for additional cranes soon, which is the main factor that determines when additional capacity will be available at BNCT. They will take around 14 months to arrive from date of order to being fully commissioned and put into use. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Mr Slootweg explained that the new cranes will be one-tier higher than the current largest cranes in Busan. \u201cJust to make sure that we have enough margin to clear the top tier of the EEE (18000 teu) class comfortably,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest large ship call at BNCT terminal in Busan\u2019s New Port demonstrates the future abilities of South Korea\u2019s container logistics industry, the operator says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828","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=8828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8828"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}