Two container ship with significant cargo capacity will arrive in Montevideo in the coming weeks. One of them belongs to a shipping company that never operated in Uruguay. That company has a distinctive color that makes its cargo ships flashy. The other belongs to a company that has the port within its container transport operations.
On October 26, the ship Amazon will dock for the first time in Montevideo. shipping company ONE (Ocean Network Express). will in Terminal Cuenca del Plata (TCP).
It is a new ship that operates on the route of Far East. She is 329 meters long and has a cargo capacity of 11,923 teus (a unit of measurement equivalent to a 20-foot container). She started this last trip in the port of Busan (Korea) and sails towards South America. Her first port of call is Santos (Brazil).
The ONE company, which is dedicated to the transfer of containers, is Japanese and jointly owned by the shipping companies of the same origin Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Mitsui OSK Lines and K Line. Its distinctive color is magenta. ONE is the sixth largest container shipping company in the world.
The other boat is owned by Hapag Lloyd. It is bigger than the previous one. Is he Rio de Janeiro Express. It is 335 meters long and can carry up to 13,312 teus. Approximate arrival date is November 2. It is the container ship with the greatest cargo capacity of all those that have arrived at the port of Montevideo. It will also dock at TCP.
Terminal Cuenca del Plata
Hapag Lloyd transports containers around the world and is the fifth largest in the world. He is of German origin.
The president of the National Ports Administration (ANP), Juan Curbelo, valued the arrival of the two ships. “The characteristics of the container terminal means that larger ships and more possibility of container cargo begin to come,” he told The Observer.
“That is going to do foreign trade very well and it is ultimately part of what has been sought in recent years: the positioning of the port of Montevideo. That makes the improvement of the competitiveness because shipping connectivity is essential,” he added.
increased activity
Curbelo estimated that this year the port of Montevideo will have another container movement record. Between January and so far in October, the port handled 810,000 TEUs (20-foot container). In addition, between January and September of this year, there was a 10% increase in the movement of containers in the year-on-year comparison.
Last year, Montevideo reached a activity record. In total, between full and empty containers, it moved 978,069 TEUs. This year, the official goal is to reach the million teus
The arrival of larger ships is produced from the increase in depth of the port of Montevideo to 13 meters. The ANP even claims that this depth is 14 meters. In order to do so, you need the authorization of the Administrative Commission of the River Plate. There, the Argentine delegation must approve the deepening of the access channel.
