Photo politeness Port of Tanjung Pelepas

The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) in Malaysia has actually damaged its very own document for containership use after the MSC Gulsun, the biggest container ship on the planet, left with 19,574 TEUs packed aboard.

The landmark is currently the 3rd time PTP has actually established the globe document for vessel use and also the very first port on the planet to establish back-to-back documents.

The Port of Tanjung Pelepas is a joint endeavor in between MMC Group and also APMTerminals With capability to deal with as much as 12.5 million TEUs every year, it is among one of the most sophisticated container terminals on the planet. The port is positioned on the eastern side of the mouth of the Pulai River in South-West Johor near assemblage of several of the globe’s busiest delivery lanes. PTP has 14 direct berths completing over 5km in size, and also is outfitted with 58 Super Post Panamax cranes, 16 of which have a 24-box outreach. The cranes likewise have twin-lift capacity. PTP’s present typical berth performance for mainliner vessels stands at 100 relocations per hr minimum.

Helping the port established the brand-new document, PTP has actually currently gone deal with the Navis N4 incurable os, which gives better efficiency and also scalability.

“The implementation of Navis N4 has been years in planning and preparation,” stated Simon Doughty, a Vice President at Navis, which provided the system. “With the support of teams from PTP, Navis, MMC, APM Terminals and other vendors, N4 was successfully implemented on time and with no unplanned disruption to daily port operations.”

“I have personally been involved in many ‘go lives’, but never one of this size and scale and also never one that has gone so well in so many areas, including change management, adoption of new processes and frontline technology,” commented Joe Schofield, PTP’s Chief Operating Officer.

A video clip of the record-setting phone call by the MSC Gulsun is listed below: