TCH opens up to a wider range of commercial possibilities thanks to dredging works in the Bay of Havana

The works, which have already started, will finish in seven months’ time

Barcelona, 15th of May, 2008.-

The Cuban National Port Authority has started dredging works in the Bay of Havana. The works have started in the turning basin of the Havana Container Terminal (TCH), member of the TCB Group. The decision to begin the work in the TCH was taken due to the importance of the terminal in terms of container and general cargo traffic in Cuba.

The works are forecast to end in seven months’ time; however, the Port Authority doesn’t rule out the possibility of a reduction in this time period, depending on the progress of the works.

The Bay of Havana has a permissible depth of 11.45 metres, but due to the state of the waterways in the container terminal, it is currently limited to 9.45 metres. The dredging process is intended to raise levels to 11.50 metres, thus presenting the Terminal with a wider range of commercial opportunities in terms of the ships that form part of the Caribbean’s regional traffic.

TCH, currently in the middle of the extension and modernisation of its technopark, forecasts an increase in the volume of traffic in 2008 to 340,000 TEUs. TCH is the biggest container terminal operator in Cuba and the only one specialised in this type of traffic. Last year, the volume of traffic for the Terminal was 319,857 TEUs.

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Havana Container Terminal extends its technopark with the acquisition of three new front loaders

TCH, Cuba’s biggest container terminal, last year handled traffic of almost 320,000 TEUs

By acquiring this new machinery, the Terminal concludes a period of modernisation that has set handling predictions for 2008 at 340,000 TEUs
 

Barcelona, April  23^rd 2008.-
The mixed capital company Terminal de Contenedores de La Habana S.A. (TCH), member of the TCB Group, has acquired three new front loaders for the management of empty containers in its container yard, thus carrying on with current extension plans being carried out in its technopark.

The machinery, supplied by the Swedish firm SVETRUCK, will allow for the storing of empty containers up to seven metres high, which will, in turn, allow the port to show considerable improvement in terms of better use of storage space.

This deal completes a period of modernisation in the Terminal’s front loading fleet. At the moment, TCH has another two machines with similar characteristics to the recently purchased ones and another three that allow a stacking height of five containers. Through this technopark the Terminal hopes to provide a better service in the management of empty containers and reach 340,000 TEUs this year. TCH is the biggest container terminal in Cuba and is the only one specialised in this type of traffic. Last year, the volume of traffic reached 319,857 TEUs.


Once this period of fleet modernisation comes to an end, the Terminal foresees that in 2008 it will implement a new investment plan that will allow for improved coverage of the increased traffic expected in the coming years, as well as a better provision of service to the island’s foreign trade.

 

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