Page 11 - Sphere No.13 (Dec 2004)

Better by Design

Hutchison Ports (UK) Ltd

(HPUK) has won a top

landscape design award for its proposal to develop

a new deep-water container terminal at Bathside Bay.

The “Local and Site Planning Award” was presented by

the

Landscape Institute

at its 75th Anniversary Awards

ceremony to

LDADesign Consulting LLP

(LDA

Design), landscape consultants to HPUK. LDA Design’s concept incorporates a new

wetland area, extensive tree planting and a “green” buffer zone that helps shield the

working area of the Port.

Big Day for

Thamesport

on July 22 welcomed

Hatsu Envoy

, the largest vessel

ever to call at the Medway facility.

Owned by

HatsuMarine

the

6,332-TEU vessel is 300m long

and 42.8m wide with a draft of

13.5m. Thamesport has under-

gone an extensive equipment and infra-

structure investment programme in recent

months and the

Hatsu Envoy

was the first

in a line of larger container ships that will

use the Thamesport facility as part of

a global surge in demand.

Shanghai Venture

Hutchison Port Holdings

(HPH) and

Shanghai International Port Group

(SIPG) have entered into an agreement to

form a JV to invest in a container terminal

at

Shanghai Waigaoqiao Phase V

(WGQ

Phase V). The newly formed company –

Shanghai Mingdong Container

Terminals Ltd

– is a JV between

SIPG

and

Hutchison Ports Waigaoqiao Ltd

,

a subsidiary of HPH, with a 50-50 share-

holding. With a tenure of 50 years, the JV

has registered capital of 4 billion yuan

(approximately US$483 million).

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H U T C H I S O N U P D A T E S

HPH Eyes Polish Port

HPH

has entered into agreements to

acquire a majority stake in

Wolny

Obszar Gospodarczy

(WOG),

a general cargo terminal in the Port of

Gdynia, Poland, with a plan to develop

it into a container terminal. The Port

is located on the southern coast of the

Baltic Sea where 90% of Polish sea-

borne containerised cargo is handled.

WOG will strengthen HPH’s European

port network, enhancing the level of

service offered by Felixstowe,

Thamesport and Rotterdam.

The 334-m vessel

M.V. CMA CGM

Hugo

made a maiden call at

Xiamen

International Container Terminals

(XICT) on Aug. 1, 2004, to commence

the Pearl River Express Service (PRX),

a US West Coast service jointly operated

by

CMA CGM

and

MSC

. PRX calls

at XICT weekly with the routing of

Xiamen, Chiwan, Hong Kong, Yantian,

Pusan, Long Beach, Oakland and

Xiamen. Five vessels are deployed on

the new service.

Maersk Sealand

meanwhile launched

new long-haul services to Europe and

a Europe-Mediterranean service, deploy-

ing a total of 15 vessels. XICT now

handles over half of Xiamen Port’s

Europe- and US-bound containers.

XICT Launches

New Services

P O R T S

HPH to Develop

Thai Terminals

Hutchison Port Holdings

(HPH)

entered into an agreement in

October with the

Port Authority

of Thailand

to develop six

container terminals in the

Laem

Chabang Port.

Hutchison Laemchabang

Terminal Ltd

, formed by

a consortium comprising of HPH,

Hutchison Ports Thailand

and

Lexton Thailand

, has been

awarded a 30-year concession to

build and operate the container

terminals in Chon Buri’s Laem

Chabang deep-sea port. Laem

Chabang is located in the middle of

industrial and manufacturing

zones, home to many of the world’s

largest producers and manufactur-

ers and is well-positioned to

become the region’s transport hub.

In 2003, the port handled 3.4

million TEU.