Original news was published on 27 July, 2015

Brasil Terminal Portuário has reached a number of important milestones.

Last Friday (24th July), the facility, a joint venture between APM Terminals and Terminal Investment Limited, has handled container number 1M discharged on its quay from vessel call number 1000.

This was achieved just one year and eight months after operations officially began at this terminal. Authorities and executives of BTP together watched the offloading of the container from MSC AGRIGENTO, a vessel on the Ipanema service, arriving from Durban, South Africa.

According to AMPT, BTP’s highest monthly average productivity per crane was achieved in May, with 34.11 moves per crane hour. In addition to BTP’s increasing quayside productivity, the terminal has got the truck cycle down to only 40 minutes from pre-gate to gate out.

"Our employees have worked increasingly closely with our customers, seeking integrated solutions to improve our processes and increase the quality level of services provided," said Cláudio Oliveira, CCO of BTP. "These efficiency milestones can, above all, be attributed to the BTP team’s dedicated work”.

In the first half of this year BTP handled 363,921 TEU, a 167% increase over the number of containers handled in the same period in 2014, thanks to the dredging of the navigation channel which has increased the depth in the access channel to the same level all over, removing obstacles for larger ships to call.

“The Brazilian Ministry of Ports, the Santos Port Authority and other bodies involved in dredging also all played an essential role in the achievement of the two milestones we are celebrating today,” said Antonio Passaro, CEO of BTP.

BTP welcomed its first commercial vessel call in August 2013 and was officially opened in November 2013 after the planned berthing access and basin dredging was completed. 

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