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Evergreen opens new Taiwan terminal
[ August 23, 2023 // Chris Lewis ]Evergreen officially opened its new Terminal 7 at Kaohsiung Port in Taiwan on 14 August. Considered to be the most important project in Taiwan’s shipping industry in recent yearsit has five berths with a draft of 18 meters, a quay length of 2,415 meters, and 24 STS gantry cranes. Among them, 16 gantry cranes are 55.5 meters high and can handle ultra-large container ships with 25 rows of containers on deck. Berths S5, S4 and S3B are now operational while S1, S2 and S3A are scheduled to start service in July 2024. When fully operated next year, Terminal 7 will allow four 24,000teu container ships and two feeder vessels to berth at the same time.
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