Tuas Shipping Container Yard

Singapore has broken ground on tuas port.

Tuas shipping container yard.

Transport in the container yard will be by driverless automated guided. The maritime and port authority of singapore mpa awarded the tuas terminal phase 2 reclamation project to the penta ocean construction co hyundai engineering construction. The future tuas mega port presents singapore with an opportunity to rethink the future of shipping said prime minister lee hsien loong on thursday oct 3. Picking up shipping container i work for swift intermodal and figured everyone would like to see the giant crane put a container on a chassis.

Today s largest container ships can carry more than 10 times that 24 000 containers pm lee. Weighing in at under 6 000lbs with a gvwr of 21 000lbs this lightweight trailer is designed to carry 1 40 shipping container 1 45 shipping container with 5 add on extension 1 20 shipping container or 2 20 shipping containers. A construction yard at the tip of the southernmost end of tuas is a hive of activity round the clock as 500 workers labour to assemble massive structures that will form the building blocks for the. With construction of phase 1 beginning in april last year the mega port is slated to open progressively from 2021.

The first container ship to dock in singapore the mv nihon could carry around 2 000 containers. The port 2 yard shipping container trailer is designed as a lightweight efficient trailer. Deborah wong with more. The tuas mega port is a major milestone in singapore s next generation container terminal development with the long term project that includes four phases targeted for completion in the 2040s.

Tanjong pagar terminal closed to container traffic at the end of 2016. When fully completed tuas terminal will be able to handle up to 65 million teus annually as all container operations are set to be consolidated in the terminal by 2040s.