Cape Town expansion on schedule

Over the past six months, 16 RTGs have been phased into the terminal with a further 16 machines earmarked for delivery during the second half of this year.

“The strategic advantage of the RTG is dense stacking – six rows wide, five containers high and 30 deep – thereby providing better utilisation of space,” says Moshe Motlohi, Cape Town Terminal executive.

The converted RTG blocks will increase stacking capacity by 40% to a total of 6,900 teu slots, increasing the current 740,000 teu terminal capacity to 1.4m teu by 2012. The first block (Block 10) was completed in October 2009, with two further blocks (Blocks 9 and D4) completed by December, utilising eight RTGs in total.