The Hindu Business Line : PSA Sical handles record throughput

PSA Sical Terminals Ltd (PSTL), operating the Tuticorin Container Terminal (TCT), has set a record high throughput by handling close to 300,000 TEUs of containers for the year 2004, registering a 25 per cent increase in business volumes compared to 2003.

It has set new productivity benchmarks since the start of 2005.

In February, TCT clocked in a gross crane rate (GCR-container moves per quay crane per hour) of 31 moves on the Maersk vessel, Fabian Schulte and on the vessel Cimbria that serves CSAV's round-the-world service connecting Tuticorin directly to Europe, North America and the Far East.

According to Mr John Quok, General Manager of PSTL, four rubber-tiered gantry cranes have been added at TCT in 2004 and a third quay crane is to be commissioned next month. Efforts to double container yard capacity before the end of the April is on.

The parent company, PSA International, with operations in Singapore and Belgium, with an extensive global network of 17 port projects in 11 countries across China, Europe, India, Korea, South East Asia and Japan has handled 33.11 million TEUs of containers worldwide, a press release said.

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