PD Ports completes first phase fo expansion plan
PD Ports completes first phase of expanding Teesport container handling facilities
This £2M investment involved the relocation of the port’s existing Vauxhall cars import compound to make additional land available, directly behind the existing TCT2 container terminal facilities. This land has been freed up to accommodate an increase in container volumes handled at Teesport. The port expects to grow its container volumes in the period before the Northern Gateway Container Terminal (NGCT) commences construction. PD Ports' annual container handling capacity at Teesport has, as a result of this recent investment, increased from 206,000 teu to 236,000 teu.
Circa £600,000 of this latest investment has gone into the purchasing of new equipment including, two new empty container handlers, four terminal tractors and five trailers to more efficiently handle the growing number of containers stored within the dock area.
Initially the port will use the area to hold stocks of empty containers for major existing customers, such as CMA CGM, Containerships and MSC.
