OPERATIONS

MANILA HARBOR CENTER UPGRADES

4 years ago

The ICTSI operated Manila Harbor Center, the Philippine’s largest dry bulk and general cargo facility, is also the subject of a capacity upgrade with this spanning bulk cargo bay development and deepening the draught alongside berths at Terminals 1, 2 and 3.

International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) has commenced the development of Berth 8 at its fl agship Manila International Container Terminal (MICT) with the berth designed to accommodate vessels of up to 18,000TEU capacity. Development will be in two phases with the completed facility adding 400m of quay and up to 12ha of yard area. Depth alongside will initially be dredged to a depth of 13.5m with further potential deepening to 15m.

Alongside the Berth 8 project ICTSI is also undertaking the modernisation of Berths 1 to 5 and their respective yard and back-up areas including the installation of additional reefer racks.

With Berth 8 operational MICT will possess a total berth length of 2300m raising berth capacity by 21 per cent and overall capacity by 25 per cent.

Berths 6 and 7, which commenced operations in 2012 and 2014 respectively, can accommodate neo-Panamax vessels with a maximum capacity of 15,500TEU. The quay line at Berth 7 was expanded by 150m in 2021, creating together with Berth 6 a 600m contiguous quay. A new quay crane to go into operation here is scheduled for delivery in July together with two other quay cranes for Berth 4.

Berth 8 will be equipped with at least four quay cranes – two of which will be delivered in 2025 – with these new units being the largest in the terminal and in the Philippines as a whole.