The third berth at the Deltaport container terminal in Roberts Bank opened for business Monday, sporting the latest cranes that will not only accommodate the largest container ships in the world, but even larger ones that haven’t yet been built.

The two-year, $400-million project increases the container terminal’s
capacity by 50 per cent, from 1.2 million containers a year, which are
measured in 20-foot equivalents or TEUs, to 1.8 million. About 20
hectares of container storage space has also been added.

But it’s the three new dual-hoist quad cranes, the first of their kind
in North or South America, that sends a message to the world that
Vancouver area ports are ready for business.

The expansion of the Panama Canal, which will allow super-sized ships
to go through the canal rather than around the southern tip of South
America, is slated to be completed in 2014, Stockwell Day, Minister of
International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, said in
an interview.

“And this type of new gantry crane is equipped to handle the widest
ships that are out there right now and the widest that are even on the
drawing boards,” Day said. “So as people are making their long-term
shipping decisions, it is sending the signal that Asia Pacific Gateway
and Vancouver ports are ready for business now.”

While the global downturn in the last 18 months has slowed business at
Deltaport, as well as other ports around the world, projections are
that demand through the Asia-Pacific Gateway will double in the next 10
years, Day said.

“And this is the type of thing where you can’t wait for peak demand,”
he said. “You have to be ready and you have to be sending the messages
that you’re ready now, which we are.”

Deltaport, which handles about 45 per cent of the container cargo that
moves through Canada’s West Coast and more than half of the cargo
through Port Metro Vancouver, is operated by TSI Terminal Systems Inc.,
a division of GCT Global Container Terminals Inc., which is owned by
the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.

Source: The Vancouver Sun

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