On 3 December the container terminal
Cosco-PSA, constituted in a joint venture by the Chinese
shipowner Cosco (with 49% of the capital disbursed by Cosco
Pacific) and by the group of PSA terminals of Singapore (with
51% of the capital), was inaugurated in the port of
Singapore.
Cosco-PSA Terminal (CPT) started to
operate on 1st November. The company administrates two
docks of the Terminal Pasir Panjang with a total of 720
lineal metres of dock and a surface of 228000 square metres.
When it is working at full capacity the installation could
operate more than a million teus per year. The installation,
spokesmen of CPT indicated, is able to manipulate the
biggest containerships in the world with a capacity of 8000
teus.