Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) has confirmed it will open its second container terminal in Karachi at the end of October 2016, according to Reuters.
The new facility, South Asia Pakistan Terminals (SAPT), will aim to handle 250,000 teu in the first year of operations and more than 2m teu annually in five years.
The terminal has already received new ship-to-shore (STS) and rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes, and will have a depth of 16 m when incomplete dredging is finished.
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