Value-added reefer services for Barcelona port
Hutchison Ports BEST has obtained the approval from the Barcelona Port Authority to provide, within the terminal, a range of value-added services to reefer containers.
The services will include connection and disconnection, monitoring, the personalised attention to super reefers, as well as PTI, cleaning, tuning, repair and maintenance. The full coverage of reefer related services at BEST will reduce the in/out transportation costs and the related CO2 emissions.
Added to the recent increase in storage capacity and connection of refrigerated containers from 1,600 up to 2.750 connections (72% capacity increase), positions BEST as the terminal of reference for refrigerated cargo throughout the Mediterranean, says the firm.
BEST has 11 Super Post-Panamax quay cranes, capable of operating the largest ships in the world, 54 automated cranes (ASC), 2 cranes in the railway terminal (RMG) and 32 shuttle carriers to operate a terminal that occupies 80 Ha and has 1,500 metres of quay with a depth of 16.5 metres.
The port achieves a Vessel Operating Rate (VOR) of more than 220 movements per hour and a sustained average productivity of more than 40 movements per hour per crane (GCR).
