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Santos: Major Milestones for Brazil’s Newest Container Terminal 

Brasil Terminal Portuário (BTP), Brazil’s newest container terminal, has reached a number of important milestones. 

A joint venture between APM Terminals and Terminal Investment Limited, BTP on July 24 handled its one-millionth container discharged on its quay from the one-thousandth vessel to berth at its facility in the Port of Santos.

This was achieved 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 the South African port of Durban.

This milestone follows other achievements in terms of operational performance. 

BTP’s highest monthly average productivity per crane was achieved in May, with 34.11 moves per hour on the ship-to-shore cranes.  

The terminal has also cut its truck cycle to 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" explains Cláudio Oliveira, CCO of BTP. "These efficiency milestones can, above all, be attributed to the BTP team’s dedicated work." 
 
During first half 2015, BTP handled 363,921 TEUs, a 167 percent increase from January-June 2014, thanks, the company says, to the dredging of the navigation channel, 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 CEO of BTP, Antonio Passaro.

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.

In 2010, APM Terminals finalized a joint venture agreement with Terminal Investment Limited, assuming a 50 percent share of ownership and jointly managing the facility. The 121-acre terminal offers a 15-meter depth, and 1,108 meters of quay which can accommodate up to three vessels of 9,200 TEU capacity simultaneously.
 
The terminal is equipped with eight ship-to-shore cranes, 26 RTGs, 40 terminal trucks and a semi-automated 16 lane gate. 

Santos is Brazil’s leading container port, with volume in 2014 at a record high of 3.7 million TEUs, including the 736,711 TEUs handled by BTP in its first full year of operations.  
 

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