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Southampton on the right lines

[ July 20, 2021   //   Chris ]

DP World Southampton has completed a crane rail extension that will allow the world’s largest cranes to service the full length of the quay.

It will facilitate the movement of some of the terminal’s 12 Liebherr cranes which stand up to 130m high and increase flexibility as well as speeding up loading and unloading. 

The port has also gained permission for a third berth to be dredged to over 15 metres and a second empty container park is scheduled to open in September. 

Chief executive of DP World in the UK, Ernst Schulze, said: “The completion of the crane rail extension builds on the progress already made this year with the opening of a new Border Control Post and the dredging and widening work on a number of berths. Our next step – a £3m investment in the redevelopment of the yard for the storage and delivery of customers’ empty containers – will increase capacity by 25 per cent and create even more flexibility and resilience for our customers.”

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