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Expanded Shanghai Yangshan terminal to operate automotive intelligent vehicles
THE container terminal operator of Shanghai's deep water port, Yangshan Container Terminal, has short-listed four firms to supply 50 automotive intelligent vehicles (AIVs) and related equipment and services for its Phase 4 Terminal project.
One of the firms to be selected is France's Gaussin whose offer, valued at US$69 million, makes provision to deliver the first ten AIVs in February 2016, two months ahead of the scheduled delivery date, reported Lloyd's Loading List.
The current order is expected to be followed by a new tender from Yangshan Container Terminal for the supply of a further 80 fully-automated AIVs, taking its 'automated' fleet to 130 vehicles.
When the Yangshan Phase 4 Terminal project was first announced in 2014, local media reports quoted the port authority, the Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG), as saying that the deep-water port's capacity would rise by 40 per cent, or by four million TEU annually, with the construction of seven additional berths for vessels.
Scheduled for completion in 2017, investment costs were estimated at between $1.6 billion and $1.8 billion.
However, two years on, it is unclear whether the initial size and scope of the project and the projected financial outlay have been retained.
One of the firms to be selected is France's Gaussin whose offer, valued at US$69 million, makes provision to deliver the first ten AIVs in February 2016, two months ahead of the scheduled delivery date, reported Lloyd's Loading List.
The current order is expected to be followed by a new tender from Yangshan Container Terminal for the supply of a further 80 fully-automated AIVs, taking its 'automated' fleet to 130 vehicles.
When the Yangshan Phase 4 Terminal project was first announced in 2014, local media reports quoted the port authority, the Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG), as saying that the deep-water port's capacity would rise by 40 per cent, or by four million TEU annually, with the construction of seven additional berths for vessels.
Scheduled for completion in 2017, investment costs were estimated at between $1.6 billion and $1.8 billion.
However, two years on, it is unclear whether the initial size and scope of the project and the projected financial outlay have been retained.
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