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Gulf of Oman's Khorfakkan terminal docks its biggest ship ever
UAE-BASED port operator Gulftainer has docked its biggest-ever ship - the 17,722-TEU CMA CGM Kerguelen - at its Khorfakkan Container Terminal (KCT) on Gulf of Oman outside the Strait of Hormuz.
The French-owned, British-flagged CMA CGM Kerguelen was on its maiden call on the FAL1 service that takes it to Ningbo, Shanghai, Xiamen, Hong Kong, Shenzhen-Chiwan, Shenzhen-Yantian, Port Kelang, Tanger, Southampton, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Zeebrugge, Le Havre, Algeciras, Malta, Khorfakkan and back to Ningbo.
The CMA CGM Kerguelen is the newest and largest vessel in the CMA CGM fleet with an overall length of 398 metres and a width of 54 metres.
"Receiving the CMA CGM Kerguelen represents another milestone for Gulftainer and Khorfakkan, as it is the largest vessel we have worked at the facility," said Khorfakkan terminal manager Daniel Wright.
"This new milestone adds to the benchmarks already achieved this year at the terminal where we recently set a new record for the highest number of containers discharged and loaded on a single vessel call when the 13,800-TEU CMA CGM Jules Verne worked a total of 19,561 TEU in a record time."
On her maiden call to KCT facility, the vessel discharged and loaded over 7,700 containers and departed the terminal ahead of schedule.
Khorfakkan has been one of the most important transshipment hubs for the Arabian Gulf, the Indian subcontinent, the Gulf of Oman and the East African markets. KCT also recently received the Shipping Port of the Year honour at the 2015 Supply Chain and Transport Awards (SCATA), said the Gulftainer release.
Gulftainer's current portfolio covers UAE operations in Khorfakkan and Port Khalid in Sharjah as well as activities at Umm Qasr in Iraq, Recife in Brazil, Jeddah and Jubail in Saudi Arabia as well as Tripoli Port in Lebanon, which will commence operations in September.
The company recently signed a 35-year concession with the Canaveral Port Authority in Florida marking Gulftainer's first venture in the United States.
In 2007, a European Parliament study on organised theft of commercial vehicles and their loads put the annual cost to business at EUR8.2 billion (US$9.2 billion).
The French-owned, British-flagged CMA CGM Kerguelen was on its maiden call on the FAL1 service that takes it to Ningbo, Shanghai, Xiamen, Hong Kong, Shenzhen-Chiwan, Shenzhen-Yantian, Port Kelang, Tanger, Southampton, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Zeebrugge, Le Havre, Algeciras, Malta, Khorfakkan and back to Ningbo.
The CMA CGM Kerguelen is the newest and largest vessel in the CMA CGM fleet with an overall length of 398 metres and a width of 54 metres.
"Receiving the CMA CGM Kerguelen represents another milestone for Gulftainer and Khorfakkan, as it is the largest vessel we have worked at the facility," said Khorfakkan terminal manager Daniel Wright.
"This new milestone adds to the benchmarks already achieved this year at the terminal where we recently set a new record for the highest number of containers discharged and loaded on a single vessel call when the 13,800-TEU CMA CGM Jules Verne worked a total of 19,561 TEU in a record time."
On her maiden call to KCT facility, the vessel discharged and loaded over 7,700 containers and departed the terminal ahead of schedule.
Khorfakkan has been one of the most important transshipment hubs for the Arabian Gulf, the Indian subcontinent, the Gulf of Oman and the East African markets. KCT also recently received the Shipping Port of the Year honour at the 2015 Supply Chain and Transport Awards (SCATA), said the Gulftainer release.
Gulftainer's current portfolio covers UAE operations in Khorfakkan and Port Khalid in Sharjah as well as activities at Umm Qasr in Iraq, Recife in Brazil, Jeddah and Jubail in Saudi Arabia as well as Tripoli Port in Lebanon, which will commence operations in September.
The company recently signed a 35-year concession with the Canaveral Port Authority in Florida marking Gulftainer's first venture in the United States.
In 2007, a European Parliament study on organised theft of commercial vehicles and their loads put the annual cost to business at EUR8.2 billion (US$9.2 billion).
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