New deep-water terminal APM Terminals Izmir has received five rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) and two ship-to-shore (STS) cranes as it prepares for its first expected vessel call in March 2016.
One more STS crane and five additional RTGs are scheduled to arrive in December 2015, enabling the 1.3m teu facility to handle ships of up to 16,000 teu capacity.
The new container terminal on Turkey’s Aegean coast will become the country’s biggest container terminal in the Aegean Region, serving Istanbul and southern Turkey.
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