The line, which began in the ports of East Asia, arrived on the morning og 15th Octobermorning to Haifa Port with the biggest vessel ever to call at Israel. Haifa Port workers unloaded the ship in a rate of 135 moves per ship hour, using 4 of the 6 STS cranes in the Carmel Terminal. Mendi Zaltzman, port CEO: “This is a great day for the Israeli economy and a huge day for us. We are thankful for the trust and cooperation we get from MAERSK and MSC”
At 367 meters in length, the immense container ship Gustav Maersk has with a maximum capacity of more than 10,000 TEU.
This call represent the dawn of a new era for East Asian imports to Israel – Israel’s largest and most important trade route aside from Western Europe. According to the Israel Shipping & Ports Authority, these imports will total more than 200,000 containers annually once the 2M Alliance’s ships begin to call at Haifa Port on a weekly basis.
The choice of Haifa Port as a port of call for the Alliance’s ships is no simple coincidence, as the port has already demonstrated meticulous
adherence to schedules and operational efficiency required by the Maersk and MSC managements, including a high average productivity of 30 containers per crane hour. And to prove that, the GUSTAV reached a rate of 135 moves per ship hour in its call, using 4 of the 6 STS cranes in the Carmel Terminal.
Starting today, the ships of the AE12TP2 line will make a weekly call at Haifa Port. This line runs from the port of Busan in South Korea, through
Shanghai, Ningbo, Chiwan, and Singapore, and from there to Port Said and Haifa Port. After calling at Haifa, the line’s ships continue on to several ports in the Adriatic: Koper (Slovenia), Trieste (Italy), and Rijeka (Croatia).
Mendi Zaltzman, Haifa Port CEO: “This is a great day for the Israeli economy and a huge day for us. We are thankful for the trust and cooperation we get from MAERSK and MSC. I am satisfied by our efficiency today, dealing with such a big vessel, and I am sure that this cooperation between us and the 2M will expand in the near future.”