Durres powers ahead

Based on available information provided by the Durrës Port Authority (APD), a total of 184,017 TEU were handled in 2023, representing an increase of 38 per cent over the total recorded for 2022.

The trade itself was also balanced, with 92,100 TEU confirmed as import activity, with exports reaching 91,917 TEU. Indeed, it is export demand that has been a significant driver of this growth, with an additional 51,052 TEU exiting the terminal in 2023 compared to the same 12-month period of 2022.

It also clear that investment in new and improved systems and improved terminal performance by the terminal’s management company, Mariner Adriatic (part of Hili Company) is paying an important role in this uptick.

Mariner Adriatic highlights the implementation of the Navis N4Saas terminal operating system, Navis’s cloud-based solution, as a major positive step. Another initiative is the installation of an automated gate system employing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) based access control, which functions to identify both trucks and containers entering and exiting the terminal gates. The system improves productivity through the terminal by minimising queuing at the gate and provides improved accuracy of real-time damage inspection via high resolution images of each vehicle and container (with images available to cargo owners via the terminal’s Customer Access Portal interface).

The Customer Access Portal is also seeing upgrades, with identification of container locations, in real time, provided to help shipping lines and inland transport providers to efficiently plan the receipt of their containers.