APM T Terminals to start building Peruvian box shop for 2014 opening

SINCE APM Terminals (APM T) took control of Peru's Callao North Terminal in July 2011 it has begun modernisation of a container terminal at the city's old Patio Guadalupe railway station to re-open in final quarter 2014 after a US$749 million investment.

APM T Callao has reached 436,000-TEU annual throughput at the terminal and with the expansion hopes to create an annual capacity of three million TEU. It will boast 12 ship-to-shore cranes and 36 rubber-tyre gantries at full build-out. By opening day, super-post panamax quay cranes will span 23 containers abeam and have 12 electric RTGs dockside.

The Netherlands-based operator, a unit of AP Moller Group, has invested $35 million in the first year since it took operational control in July 2011 and further expansion will generate 600 news jobs for the city in the coming two years.

It has seen an uplift in containers and will continue to upgrade the terminal's ro-ro and general cargo facilities in response to the country's overall increase year-on-year of 11 per cent in containerised cargo.

Through sustainable aims it will preserve elements of the old railway station to then relocate elsewhere in the city.