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Private port operator, APM Terminals Pipavav informed that in a first for the port, largest vessel with size of 10,100 TEU (twenty-feet equivalent Units) capacity, Maersk Gibraltar arrived at APM Terminals Pipavav on June 16, 2017.
It makes the first call of Maersk Line’s ME1 Service to the port, and set a new record for the largest vessel ever to call Pipavav Port.
The newly added weekly loop linking Europe, the Middle East and India. The 337-meter long Maersk Gibraltar loaded cargoes of refrigerated agricultural products, and iron castings for export.
An expansion at APM Terminal Pipavav was recently completed, strengthening the existing berth, performing additional dredging, and adding 3 new post-Panamax cranes, and 4 new Rubber-Tyred Gantry Cranes, which has increased annual throughput capacity to 1.35 million TEUs.
Container throughput at the port was 682,000 TEUs in 2016, along with approximately 3 million tons of bulk cargo. Current annual general cargo capacities include 5 million metric tons off Dry Bulk, 2 million metric tons of Liquid Bulk and approximately 250,000 passenger cars.
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